I just wanted to take a moment and say that the CSK is now transmorgifying to a new product called the GotCommunityNet Web App (GCN for short). You can find it on the web at http://www.gotcommunitynet.com . Source code (C# based), news and more can be found at http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=39959859-68b5-4f5e-bd85-c1a8555e39a9
Now that a lot of the bugs are ironed out we are looking at the following:
- Integrating the Microsoft Application Blocks (Data and Exception Reporting)
- Adding more security integration options
- Splitting the core code base into smaller, more logical assemblies - adding benefits to the GCN like:
- Faster execution time (probably not a ton but it is an improvement)
- Creating new Modules will be truly modular
- Can be created in any .NET language
- Is created from a GCN Module Template (which can hopefully be added to VS.NET)
- Is “standalone“ so you can just drop it into the directory structure without recompiling the entire app
- Is self-describing, admin module will have a discovery function to find all new modules and it should load the appropriate SQL during this discovery action
- R&D on how Whidbey will affect the current architecture
So, as you see, there are many BIG plans for the GCN.