A few questions about upgrading Infragistics

David posted over 16 years ago

Hi,

I'm doing a research task and I apologize in advance because I'm not very computer savvy so I hope you can understand me.

I have a program right now that is on .NET 1.1, and I believe that is CLR 1.x. We are using NetAdvantage 2004 V3 right now, and Visual Studio 03 and would like to go to .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 08. I've read another thread concerning upgrading from NetAdvantage 2005 to the current NetAdvantage; would I follow the same steps to upgrade to the current NetAdvantage (ie. bring project to VS 2008, then upgrade the references)? One other question, if I did upgrade to the current NetAdvantage, would anything change about the appearance/behaviour of the controls?

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Andrew posted over 16 years ago

To upgrade your project I would do the following:

1) Install VS2008 and the latest version of Infragistics NetAdvantage
2) Open the existing VS2003 project in VS2008 which will run an upgrade wizard. Once the project is upgraded to a VS2008 project make sure everything builds ok. Then close Visual Studio.
3) Run the Infragistics Project Upgrade Utility which is in you Start Menu -> Infragistics -> v2008.2 -> NetAdvantage for .NET Tools folder and upgrade the VS2008 project that you just created. This will bring your Infragistics references up to the latest version.
4) Delete all of the Infragistics dll's from the bin/Debug folder
5) Open the project and rebuild.

As far as changes in appearance/behaviour... you will probably notice some changes but for the most part things are backwards compatible. Since 2004v3 there have been many changes. There is support for many new styles and many new features were added. I won't go as far as saying it will work and look exactly the same after upgrade but it should be close.
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Gary posted over 16 years ago in reply to Andrew

IGDrewS --

A real naive question:

I need to upgrade from Infragistics 2004-3 to a later version because I went from framework 1.1 to 2.0 to accommodate Visual Studio 2005 vs 2003.

How do I get a later version of NetAdvantage? Is it downloadable or do I have to contact infragistics and buy new disks?

Since I went to VS 2005 (not 2008), would it be better to try to upgrade to NetAdvantage 2007 Volume 3 instead of NetAdvantage 2008?

Thanks....
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Bill posted over 15 years ago in reply to Bill

Please disregard.
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Bill posted over 15 years ago in reply to Jason D.

After looking more closely at the errors it appears that the upgrade tool did its job. The errors are now focused more on what used to be in 6.3 that is not in 8.3. For example, the UltaWinGrid.UltraCombo object used to have an attribute called CharacterCasing which apparently no longer exists in 8.3. Am I off base?

Is there a listing of equivalent calls somewhere?
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Jason D. posted over 15 years ago in reply to Bill

Hello,

Do you have any additional assemblies that your project is referencing that may have used Infragistics controls inside of them? If you do, that assembly will most likely need to be updated as well.
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Bill posted over 15 years ago in reply to Andrew

I'm trying to do the same upgrade. I've run the utility with my solution closed and a cleaned out bin, only to reopen the solution and all the license.licx files are now empty. The references were update but after compilation I'm still getting errors asking me to reference the 6.1 version of the dll. There are no errors in the upgrade utility and all files are writable. Any ideas?
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Andrew posted over 16 years ago in reply to Gary

You will need to purchase the new version unless you have a current subscription. You should get the latest version (2008 vol 3) which will work for framework 2.0.
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