ASP.NET 2.0 compiled version of Sitecore

I Guess the rumors about a RTM release of VS 2005 were false. However, I have now completed a fully functional build of Sitecore V5 for ASP.NET 2.0 based on the RC version of .VS2005.

I will probably ship the .NET 2.0 version to our test center in Ukraine tomorrow and a BETA release hopefully will be released soon after that. I am now confident (unofficially confident) that you Sitecore developers will be able to write C# 2.0 code for Sitecore on November 7th on at least a Beta version of Sitecore.

Releasedate for VS 2005

Ole found a blog where it states that the VS 2005 RTM (Release To Manufacturing) allready will be awailable for MSDN Universal Subscribers on the 15th of October http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeffrey.palermo/archive/2005/10/11/132969.aspx

And final release is on 7th of November http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1850408,00.asp

This means that I was 10 days off in my previous blog post ... sorry.

Guess I need to work harder on converting Sitecore to ASP.NET 2.0

Test of Sitecore V5 for ASP.NET 2.0

I used the last couple of days to make a test build of Sitecore for ASP.NET 2.0 and the results are looking very positive. The overall performance seams to have increased significantly and, of course, C#2.0 and VS2005 are a blast to work with. There are still some issues before a BETA release can be build including some cryptographic problems. However, it should be possible to have a working final release of Sitecore V5 for ASP.NET 2.0 at the same date as Microsoft releases .NET 2.0 (think it was on November the 14th.) and a BETA version mid October. These estimates are of course not official.