ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions

[John A Grandy]

Has anyone installed ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions ?

Any problems ?

I'm a little wary of installing beta software ...

I'm on VS2008 + .NET 3.5

 

[Andy B]

I have it installed and haven't ran into any install issues. Haven't
actually used any of the controls yet, but some of my project looks like it
might need them...

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

The extensions are fairly safe. They are essentially assemblies you link to
so you can have the new functionality. I am also fairly leery about
betaware, especially Microsoft betaware, but I would not be real worried
about MVC framework and the ASP.NET extensions, as they do not change any
..NET Framework bits -- at least not for now.

 

[Andy B]

What's wrong with Microsoft beta programs? Never had that much of an issue
with most of it.

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

Many of them will not uninstall, forcing you to completely rebuild your
machine. There are also cases where the beta overwrites bits, forcing you to
reinstall Frameworks, etc.

For this reason, I rarely suggest that someone put a beta on a production
machine. In this particular case, nothing is overwritten, so this is no more
dangerous than open source software. I would still be cautious about putting
any beta on a production machine, but nobody should have a major problem
here.

 

[clintonG]

Virtual PC to the rescue.

Many of them will not uninstall, forcing you to completely rebuild your
machine. There are also cases where the beta overwrites bits, forcing you
to reinstall Frameworks, etc.

For this reason, I rarely suggest that someone put a beta on a production
machine. In this particular case, nothing is overwritten, so this is no
more dangerous than open source software. I would still be cautious about
putting any beta on a production machine, but nobody should have a major
problem here.

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

Yes, but for some reason, so many do not use Virtual PC (or VMWare, which
allows dual cores/procs to be used effectively).

I have a base image that I copy and add stuff to. Then, I do not have a huge
amount of time setting up another image. I know you can do this with a
single image, by not applying the new stuff to the main image, but this
works well for me.