BugNET

There has been a bit of discussion in the forums regarding the default project model for asp.net 2.0 and the new web application project model that was released by the asp.net team.

This new project model is very similar to the project model in visual studio 2003.

To make the BugNET solution easier to work with I have sucessfully converted the project to the web application model and is now in the subversion repository as BugNET_WAP.  The older project will remain for a short while but should not be modified. This change has seemed to speed up compiles and working with the solution in general.

A bit of info about the next release, 0.7.0 is now in testing by ...
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One of the more substantial changes to the next version of BugNET is the addition of custom fields.  The original ASP.NET Issue Tracker Starter kit which BugNET is based on did have this feature but was not seen as an essential feature at the time in BugNET.  With the addition of various fields to BugNET such as hardware, operating system & URL fields custom fields also did not seem necessary as a lot of extra information can be captured.

BugNET’s implementation of custom fields extends the initial design of the asp.net issue tracker starter kit which only allowed custom text fields to allow custom fields of Text, Date, dropdown List, yes/no (checkbox) and rich text. In the project administration (screenshot below) you can see ...
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Source Code

The up to date source code now lies in the subversion repository on sourceforge.net.  Subversion brings a ton of enhancements over cvs and makes it easier for others to contribute to the project.  Please review the instructions on how to work with subversion.

The source code for 0.66 will remain in the cvs repository for now.

Versioning

A new versioning scheme for the project will now take place to align with the Microsoft .NET best practices.

In the Microsoft .NET Framework, a version number has four components:

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I started a new blog just for development discussion.  One of my goals with the new site is to communicate more efficiently with users and project members about what is happening with the project.

In the past I haven’t talked much about a roadmap so let me start by saying that the 0.66 release is near completion, over the last few betas there has been several fixes and it is looking very stable at the moment.  I would like to release 0.66 on Sunday April 2nd.

For the most part users have seen the enhancements to this version and screenshots are now up for users that have not upgraded.

The next version 0.67 or BugNET 2005 will be moving the project to AS ...
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