BugNET

Lately there has been a lot of buzz in the .NET / Microsoft development world with the announcements at the BUILD conference.  It is a fun time to be a .NET developer with the new changes and tools becoming available.  For BugNET, we have a few exciting announcements that we hope everyone will enjoy as well.

In order to receive community feedback regarding the next major version of BugNET we have released preview build 13.  This build will allow existing 0.8 versions to be upgraded or new installs.   Below are some of the changes in the 0.9 version of BugNET:

Improved validation throughout the application Added confirmation messages when saving and editing data Improved application configuration UI Started implementing logical deletion of properties (categories is complete so far) Complete re-work of the localization to resx files. Removed most of the hardcoded text in the application to the resx files Re-write of the mailboxreader , improved error handling, logging and attachment support. Moved from extjs framework to jquery for the display of categories New issue data pager control New issue grid layout that will not expand the page when too many columns are on the screen. Issue list is now able to be sorted by multiple columns. Issue tab counters now update properly after...

When we moved to the 0.8 release, the my issues screen was dropped in favour of custom queries.  Since then we have found out although queries provide a wealth of flexibility users rely heavily on the my issues feature in 0.7 to see at a glance an overview of issues related to their work across projects and what they have to do next.  

I am happy to announce the return of the My Issues screen for the next release with the following features:

Cross project list of issues that can be filtered by Assigned, Owned, Closed, Monitored (subscribed to notifications) Ability to exclude and show closed items via a checkbox Statistics regarding overall issue counts related to you Features found in all other issue lists Export to excel Select columns...

0.7 Final RC 1 has been released for testing.    This release is only meant to test final changes to the upgrade scripts and handles orphaned records from previous versions.  Please test this upgrade if you can and report your findings in the forums.  Please do not test this in a live installation where you have not backed up your database first. 

BugNET-0.7.936-Install.zip

Upgrade Notes:

Upgrade will delete all issues for projects that have been deleted. If a milestone doesn't exist milestone is set to the latest milestone for that project. If fixed in version doesn't exist , the fixed in version is set to null. All user tagged records that no longer exist will be set to the admin user. (edit the latest db script to change this value to another user) If category has been deleted the category...

If you are looking to get started developing with BugNET, or any other .NET web application, Microsoft has released a tool to install IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 and SQL Server 2008. This should help users get started coding much easier than before.