VB.Net
Does Sitefinity allow development using VB.Net?
Hi George,
Sure, you can use VB.NET as your development language. No problem.
Although most documentation and samples are in C#, you could easily convert the code, if that is needed: http://converter.telerik.com/
Regards,
Daniel
Hello,
Sitefinity does allow you to use VB.NET as your development language.for the purpose you have to convert your sitefinity project to be VB.NET project as by default it is created as C# project. For the purpose follow the guide in this KB article.
Note you can only use VB.NET or C# in your Sitefinity projects as mixing them will not work.
Regards,
Stanislav Velikov
the Telerik team
Thanks Daniel...it worked like a charm. Now I need to find out which version of RadTools is supported by 5.1!
Well, just look into the bin directory of you SF installation, right-click the Telerik.Web.UI.dll and choose 'Properties'. You'll find the version under the 'Details' tab, Product Version.
After a project is converted, will the upgrade project in the Project Manager upgrade the VB project?
Thanks,
John
Dear John
For as far as I can see the projects.xml file contains the projects. You can see the LocalPath attribute always refers to the root directory of your project (in HTTP and FileSystem mode), so probably the Project Manager searches for any project called 'SitefinityWebApp' ?
So, if you really use the Project Manager as a starting point to fire up Visual Studio, I think you'll be allright.
Just try it out?
Regards,
Daniel
Can I create MVC projects in VB .NET? I believe the documentation said I couldn't, but I find that hard to believe.
Hi,
If your sitefintiy project is converted to be visual basic web application and the file structure for MVC is in place create MVC widgets for use in sitefintiy, the views for MVC will be with extension .vbhtml .
Regards,
Stanislav Velikov
the Telerik team