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  • Jonny Irwin 91 posts 153 karma points
    Jun 27, 2011 @ 15:08
    Jonny Irwin
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    uComponents 3.0

    Hi,

    I was wondering if there was any estimated timeframe as to when 3.0 would be released?  I'm currently working on a large umbraco project & would love to use uQuery though I need it to work with the umbraco.NodeFactory namespace rather than umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory (as we aren't wanting to use obsolete namespaces).

    I know that this hasn't been updated yet due to backwards compatibility with 4.5.2.

    Thanks very much!

  • Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib
    Jun 27, 2011 @ 15:25
    Lee Kelleher
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    Hi Jonny,

    The plan is to switch over the API calls to the new NodeFactory - but like most community open-source projects, it's all down to when the individual developers have the time to do so.

    Our current roadmap is to get v2.2 stable released.  Switch over the source control to Mercurial (from TFS/SVN). Then work on v3.0 (which we are considering bumping up the version numbers to match the support Umbraco release ... so "uComponents v4.7").

    How are your C# skills? Wanna help out? Speed up the process / release-cycle? You'd be helping the community and your project!

    Drop me a mail if you're interested.

    Cheers, Lee.

  • Jonny Irwin 91 posts 153 karma points
    Jun 27, 2011 @ 15:54
    Jonny Irwin
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    Thanks Lee.  Not sure I'd know quite where to start with working on a project like this but if I get brave enough I'll definitely give you a shout!

  • Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib
    Jun 27, 2011 @ 16:03
    Lee Kelleher
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    All I'd say is that you wouldn't have to worry about all the other stuff like Data Types, XSLT extensions, etc.  Just focus on those uQuery old nodeFactory calls - most of the team are on email/IM for various bits of advice, etc.

    But no pressure - just eager to get more devs involved. (New perspectives, ideas, etc)

    Cheers, Lee.

  • Chris Parkinson 39 posts 73 karma points
    Jun 25, 2012 @ 20:25
    Chris Parkinson
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    I'm using the latest version 3.1.1 and I've noticed that uQuery calls are still using the old node factory namespace. Are there still plans to change them to use umbraco.NodeFactory? Is this something that will be coming with the version of uComponents included in the Umbraco 4.8 core? Thanks.

    Edit: Just downloaded the source and had a look - it looks like you're already on with it, so i'll take the answer to my question as a yes. :)

  • Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib
    Jun 25, 2012 @ 21:27
    Lee Kelleher
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    Hi Chris,

    We have 2 upcoming versions of uComponents... 

    4.0 - compiles against Umbraco 4.6.x. (.NET 4.0) Supports the newer umbraco.NodeFactory API. Also a few more new data-types.

    4.8 - which will compile against Umbraco 4.8 and have separate assemblies for the components: e.g. DataTypes, XsltExtensions, etc.

     

    If you want v4.0 functionality right now - is pretty much stable in our repo at the moment. (Both Hendy & I are currently using on client projects). So if you are comfortable with downloading the source and compiling it - then go for the "4.0.0-dev" branch.

    More info about the repo and branches here: http://ucomponents.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=ContributionAndDevelopment

    Cheers, Lee.

  • Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib
    Jun 25, 2012 @ 21:27
    Lee Kelleher
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    Oops, just read your *edit* ... cool! #h5yr

  • Chris Parkinson 39 posts 73 karma points
    Jun 25, 2012 @ 21:31
    Chris Parkinson
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    Brilliant, thanks. I'll compile v4 and use that.

  • Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib
    Jun 25, 2012 @ 21:33
    Lee Kelleher
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    Cool.  We aim to be releasing 4.0 beta soon... currently undergoing some unit tests, etc. (Which we previously never had in place - oh the shame!)

  • Chris Parkinson 39 posts 73 karma points
    Jun 25, 2012 @ 21:48
    Chris Parkinson
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    Sweet. Works a treat, brilliant. I'd written a couple of my own extension methods using the newer node factory but found I was using a mixture of custom stuff and uComponents, so trying to make things more consistent!

    I don't know what's worse, no unit tests or unit tests that throw not implemented exceptions (half of my code!). #h5yr

  • Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib
    Jun 25, 2012 @ 21:51
    Lee Kelleher
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    Chris, if there is anything that you think would be a good addition to uComponents/uQuery - please do feel free to make a fork of the repo and do a pull request.

    or if you're not into all that jazz - just post on the forum ... we're always interested new features/improvements.

    Cheers, Lee.

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