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RE: Is there an ECO 6 on the horizon?

Jonas Hogstrom — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:43:56 GMT

We have branched the source in order to introduce VisualStudio2010 support.

The branch will keep version number 5. In this branch we will not make any changes for VS2010, and where we will keep the some of the binaries in .net2 (handles, interfaces, persistence and web). We will port important bugfixes to this branch, but we do not plan to introduce any new functionality. If you need .net2.0 compatibility, this is the version to stay on for now.

The trunk will be called verison 6 and here is where we will introduce VS2010-support. the first beta versions will use the same license key as ECO5. Somewhere along the line we will update the license key and all customers with a valid SA will get new keys. Right now, the ECO6 assemblies are built as .net3.5 and the modlr assemblies as 4.0. We have not decided what the final target framework for ECO6 will be.

Right now, there will be separate installers for ECO6 for VS2008 and ECO6 for VS2010. At some point, it might be possible to fuse these two, but right now, they are built using separate VS-projects.

ECO5 and ECO6 will not coexist in the same IDE (since they both want to edit the ecomdl-file, and there is no way for VS to tell which modlr to use) There are probably several other reasons too. Right now, the ECO6 installer will uninstall ECO5, and it is not recommended to try having them both installed even if they are installed for separate IDEs (use VMs instead).

The upgrade procedure so far is very painless... open the project, answer yes on the question about upgrade. All assembly references will be upgraded to 6.0.0.0. If you have tag-prefixes registered in your aspx-files, you need to search/replace these manually.

So far, we have not introduced any changes into ECO6 that requires any additional changes to your projects (but that may change as the two branches inevitably will become more and more different).

OK, enough talk. here is the download link to the first ECO6 beta for VS2010.

[url=http://capableobjects.com/downloads/EcoSetup_6.0.0.4931_private_build.exe]
http://capableobjects.com/downloads/EcoSetup_6.0.0.4931_private_build.exe[/url]

If you have a VM with Vs2010, please take it for a spin and let us know what works and what doesn't. Keep in mind that it is a BETA. Note, you can not install this on a machine with only VS2008. This installer only works with VS2010. and it will uninstall ECO5 if found.

RE: Is there an ECO 6 on the horizon?

gattaca — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:13:34 GMT

"We have recently made the branch for [b]ECO6[/b] and we now have a first beta of VisualStudio2010 support"

Do you mean [b]ECO5[/b] will not support VS2010 !?

RE: Is there an ECO 6 on the horizon?

Jonas Hogstrom — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:35:52 GMT

As Hans said, we have been working on ECO5 and adding features fixing bugs since it was released. We have recently made the branch for ECO6 and we now have a first beta of VisualStudio2010 support. It seems to run well with the VS2010 RC. I will post a link to it RSN.

RE: Is there an ECO 6 on the horizon?

brian — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:27:42 GMT

[quote][b]HansKarlsen (2010-02-28)[/b][hr]VS2010 is comming up soon.

/Hans[/quote]

So can I assume you will have a new ECO version for VS2010?

If so, can you tell us some of the new features planned?

Thanks,

Brian

RE: Is there an ECO 6 on the horizon?

HansKarlsen — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:07:57 GMT

Not sure if we will call it Eco6 just yet, but we are working along releasing daily builds, well, daily... And once in a while moving the official stable build forward.

VS2010 is comming up soon.

/Hans

Is there an ECO 6 on the horizon?

brian — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:19:23 GMT

It has been quite awhile since ECO 5 was released and I was wondering what the timeline is for ECO 6. Also, I am currious what new features / fixes are planned as well.

Thanks,

Brian