Hi all,

Sitefinity 4.0 Beta 2 was released and is available for download in Your Accounts, section Free Trials.
The objective of this release was to provide for .Net 4.0 support, implement some new features, and fix a number of issues discovered since Beta. A more detailed list is below.

As always, your comments and feedback is more than welcome. Please, get back to us and let us know what you think!

Regards,
Sitefinity Team

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October 05 Update (Build 675):

• RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX were updated to Q2 SP1 release
• SDK was added, for more details refer to Sitefinity SDK page
  
  

•  .Net 4.0 framework support

• Content -  Implemented Scheduling
• Content Widgets (Blogs, News, Events, etc.)
  • • Enabled filtering by categories, tags, specific blogs, date ranges
    • Extended URL Evaluators work in two modes - UrlPath and QueryString

• Content Editor

• • • Implemented "Insert a document" option  
    • Implemented "Insert a video" option

• Configurations - Added option to configure the time zone (all dates are stored in UTC format)

• Page locking/unlocking - Improvements
• Navigation Control - Implemented "Custom selection of pages"
• Comments - Implemented Settings per module, Captcha 
• Forms

• • • Added Limitations settings per form field
    • Added export to CSV for form entries
    • Added options to edit and add new entries in administration
    • Implemented lifecycle

• Documents
  • • Enabled Versioning

• Videos
  • • Enabled Versioning

• Session expiration results in pop up screen
• Analytics
  
  • • Added drill down capabilities for each report
    • Added sorting and paging in the grids
    • Added encryption to the GoogleAnalyticsProviderConfiguration.config file
    • RadControls for Silverlight are updated to Q2 SP1 release
    • The map report now has multiple layers for showing countries, regions and cities.

• Fluent API

• • • Added Content life cycle

• Many fixes in content, pages, forms and feeds

Is there a release candidate still planned, or is this it? I thought I heard a release candidate was scheduled to come out before the final release, so I'm wondering how close we are to seeing that.

It's interesting to hear that support for .NET 3.5 will be discontinued. I personally don't mind, but like many others I will need to make sure my servers have .NET 4.0 installed. There may be many production environments that have not made that jump yet.

Hi,

Sound great.

Is this the offical RC version or another beta version ?

When is the RC version available ?

When will the newsletters feature (that was in 3.x) be available?

Thanks

Steve

Hello Steve,

This is not the official RC, this is BETA 2 release. Newsletters module is  included in plans for subsequent versions.

Kind regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hi everybody,

Hello Mariano,

You could use the General Discussions forum and Sitefinity's user voice


Sincerely yours,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hi,

Hi Andrei,

Uploading controls in not implemented in the BETA2. You can use the configuration section or config file. For more information, please take a look at Adding a new control

Sincerely yours,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Ivan,

Hi Andrei,

We have this feature in our plans and we will make sure that we will implement is as soon as possible. However, I cannot promise you that this feature will be part of the official release. In the meantime you can take a look at our new Software Development Kit (SDK) that features how to build custom widgets and register them in Sitefinity's toolbox. We have a few step by step tutorials on how to build a widget from scratch.

We have plans to release official Sitefinity 4.0 by the end of the year. We will also have a release candidate about a month before the official version, however I cannot give you an exact timeframe for now.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Kind regards,
Hristo Borisov
the Telerik team

Hristo,

Hi Andrei,

The Window you see is our new Project Manager which creates the projects on the file system and you can use it to run your projects even without hosting the project on an IIS server. You might find these blog posts useful.

Greetings,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Ok Ivan,

Hi Andrei,

This error could be thrown if you are trying to get an item( or the web service for Blogs, Event, Content etc) by ID which does not exist anymore. You are making a request that triggest GetContentItem method of content object.

Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Ivan,

Hello Andrei,

Ok, let me know if you find some issues, so we could determine whether they are bugs or results from some particular scenarios.

All the best,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Ivan,

Hello Andrei,

You can use SecurityManager.GetCurrentUser() to get the SitefinityPrincipal or SecurityManager GetCurrentUserName. Then you can work with UserManager class.

Best wishes,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Ivan,

Ivan,

[ItemNotFoundException: You are trying to access item that no longer exists. The most probable reason is that it has been deleted by another user.]
   Telerik.Sitefinity.Data.IOpenAccessExtensions.GetItemById(IObjectScope scope, String id) +206
   Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Data.OpenAccessRoleProvider.GetRole(Guid id) +103
   Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Data.RoleDataProvider.GetUsersInRole(Guid roleId) +40
   Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.Backend.AdministratorPane.ValidateMembership() +121
   Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.Backend.AdministratorPane.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +32
   System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +13
   System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +174
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +4653

Ivan,

Hello Andrei,

It looks like some file of the project is used by another program ( like Visual Studio). Could  you close all other opened applications, restart your machine and try to remove the project.

Best wishes,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Andrei,I had to deal with the same error ( You are trying to access item that no longer exists. The most probable reason is that it has been deleted by another user. ) .You can try to do the following:
1. Create a new project 2. Remove all tables in the database  <-- your old records causes the error
The following steps are only needed when you want to publish the project
3. Publish project 4. Change IIS(7) settings:

- Set to 4.0 integrated pipeline - Anonymous authentication - Enabled - ASP.NET Impersonation - Disabled - Basic Authentication - Disabled - Digest Authentication - Disabled - Forms Authentication - Enabled - Windows Authentiation - Disabled

Kind Regards,Pascal RiederSWATvertising