DotNetNuke Corp. Announces Migration of the Core Platform to C#

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DotNetNuke Corp.,the company behind the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for Microsoft .NET, announced its intention to shift the primary core development language for its award-winning DotNetNuke core platform from Visual Basic (VB.NET) to C#. The first official release of the DotNetNuke platform available in C# will be Version 6.0 which will be publicly available for users of the DotNetNuke Community, Professionaland EnterpriseEditions in Q2 2011, with the first Community Technology Preview available in early March.

News Highlights

  • In recent years there has been a much greater emphasis on the C# language in the .NET ecosystem in terms of innovation, tooling, and examples. In switching to C#, DotNetNuke Corporation believes its developer community and install base will benefit from greater access to development resources, source code examples, and enterprise acceptance.
  • A Community Technology Preview will be available in early March which will provide the opportunity for users and developers to get early access to the recently converted C# platform. Community participation and feedback will play a vital role in ensuring a high quality final release. 
  • The .NET Framework provides design-time, compile-time, and run-time support for multiple programming languages. As a result, the DotNetNuke API will preserve full compatibility through this transition. This means that all platform extensions will continue to be fully compatible with the C# DotNetNuke 6.0 core. 
  • DotNetNuke extensions developers, commercial or otherwise, will not be negatively impacted by the change as they will continue to be able to develop and deploy custom extensions in their preferred software development language including VB.NET or C#.
  • DotNetNuke is the fastest growingopen source web CMS ever on .NET with over 1,100 subscription customers, 33,000 Snowcoveredcustomers, 400 percent year-over-year growth, and more than 600,000 production web sites worldwide. Connect with us online: Twitter.com/dnncorp(company) or Twitter.com/dnnsc(Snowcovered marketplace); DotNetNuke blogs; and the DotNetNuke Community LinkedIn Group.

“As a long-time Visual Basic developer, I have personally witnessed the gradual shift in the .NET developer market as C# has become the dominant choice for the enterprise," said Shaun Walker, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of DotNetNuke Corp. "After extensive technical and business analysis, I believe the time is right for DotNetNuke to make the move to C#. I believe this migration will accelerate the adoption and deployment of the DotNetNuke Web Content Management Platform and make our product more attractive to a wider audience.”

Oateck reviews Graffiti CMS

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Oateck.com: "Overview: Its fitting I should start with Graffiti CMS since this site was built with it. What better way to review a product then actually using it to review it. For those who love and hate Community Server(CS) where you love it because of its powerful features, and hate it cause of it powerful features, Telligent(www.teligent.com) has created a CMS for the mid to small size projects that require the publishing features of CS with out all the horsepower."

mojoPortal.com sports a new look

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William Shatner as Denny CraneJust saw a post from Joe Audette that mojoPortal.com has a new look. A Jasmin Savard created the new theme (skin). We agree with Audette, the old theme was showing its age and we wish mojoPortal the best of luck on its new look.

mojoPortal is one of the few non-PHP CMS that we keep on our radar scope. mojoPortal is written in C# and runs under ASP.NET on Windows or under mono on Linux or Mac.

Evidently there is a hunger for an open source CMS with roots in Microsoft applications because we always draw a large crowd here when we mention mojoPortal. Mentioning mojoPortal here is a lot like mentioning "Denny Crane", William Shatner's character on the show Boston Legal.

Watch this...mojoPortal. See new visitors keep coming everytime I mention the name! By the way, to mojoPortal fans...welcome to CMS Report.