When will NA be ready for Visual Studio 2008?
The Infragistics ASP.Net Development manager discusses this on his blog.
blogs.infragistics.com/.../visual-studio-2008-and-netadvantage-for-asp-net.aspx
* Changed to a formal link, as I personally dislike undecorated urls.
Darrell,
The link above doesn't work because there's and extra "%20" tacked onto the end of it. If you remove the %20 characters it works.
In your bog post you said a release would be out in about 60 days or so. Will this be a free update to all of NA subscribers?
Zack:
Obviously since its not released yet this comes with all of the usual pre-release caviots (we might change this, no guarentees, etc), but right now, yes, the plan is that customers with active subscriptions who are eligable to upgrade to 8.1 will automatically get Visual Studio 2008 support for our current assemblies, and will also get native .NET 3.5 compiled assemblies.
Devin
Devin,
Thanks for the reply. So far things seem to be working well with NA 7.3 and VS2008 (knock on a wood-like surface). Are there any known gotchas that I should avoid until you guys do release an update?
The only things I have heard of so far are some potential problems binding to LINQ queries and also some potential design-time problems opening wizards and/or custom property editors.
kkilgour said: Try this problem: Using Visual Studio 2008 and Infragistics 7.3:Create a new Windows Application and on a blank form, set to MDI(not necessary though). Add any control, a standard status strip with one status label for example.Change the text of the label.Add an UltraToolbarsManager.Click Run and then stop. You can't click on the statusbar label in the designer anymore.You can select it via the Document Outline. Change the text. Notice that the file has not been flagged as dirty because the change you made has not been written to the .designer. Any changes you make to anything on the form will not be saved.Close the form and re-open it (losing all changes).You can now make changes to anything until you run the application again then the problem re-appears. I have verified this on a co-worker's machine as well.I have verified that this does not happen in VS 2005.It also happens with Dock Manager.
Try this problem:
Using Visual Studio 2008 and Infragistics 7.3:Create a new Windows Application and on a blank form, set to MDI(not necessary though).
Add any control, a standard status strip with one status label for example.Change the text of the label.Add an UltraToolbarsManager.Click Run and then stop.
You can't click on the statusbar label in the designer anymore.You can select it via the Document Outline. Change the text.
Notice that the file has not been flagged as dirty because the change you made has not been written to the .designer. Any changes you make to anything on the form will not be saved.Close the form and re-open it (losing all changes).You can now make changes to anything until you run the application again then the problem re-appears.
I have verified this on a co-worker's machine as well.I have verified that this does not happen in VS 2005.It also happens with Dock Manager.
I believe, this does not matter whether the form is MDI or SDI, it happens to both of them. I just started evaluating NA for WinForms with VS 2008 and having the designer problem with almost all the NA components whether its UltraToolbarsManager, TextEditor or DockManager etc.
I would encourage you to contact our Developer Support team so that this can get logged as a compatibility issue.
www.infragistics.com/gethelp/