I am searching for quality alternative for nforum because it is almost impossible to work with nforum and support is slow and low quality. I have posted many topics regarding this and I still don't heave any reply regarding nforum issues! Can anyone recommend me some quality alternative?
Any suggestions i welcome and many thanks in advance!
Adi
For now I'm living on 7.x, waiting for a miracle of nForum MVC to appear soon. If that wouldn't work, my best bet would be to use something like phpbb or ipboard. Will consider using UMF.
UPDATE: you actually got me interested, and with few minutes of googling I was able to find http://yetanotherforum.net/ , that says "it is possible to integrate in Umbraco". Would try different asp.net solutions before going to php.
I am specially interested in popular forum solution based on asp.net independent of Umbraco and with accent on easy integration with Windows directory. That solution I would read through iframe using Umbraco so it soesn't necessarily has to be tyed with Umbraco, what i important is that it is developed in asp.net
Just a warning (and I think I am correct) - http://yetanotherforum.net/ would have been a good bet if you are still using Umbraco with web forms because it will operate as a user control (ascx) but if using V6 or 7 of Umbraco under MVC razor, you will find that method wont work anymore.
By all means tell me I am wrong.
If nForum was to be migrated to V7.0, that would be a good integrated solution but I see that UMF is tagged as V6.0 and MVC so maybe I will try that.
I don't know how exactly, but there must be a way to execute webforms near MVC. That's what MS ASP.NET developers are bragging, like "there's no webforms and mvc, there's just asp.net, this two paradigms may live together in one app", etc. This should be possible somehow (even if your render engine for Umbraco is set to MVC).
>rewriting a previous user control as an integrated mvc item >confirmed not possible. I'm thinking not about rewriting webforms control to work in mvc environment, but about being able to tell asp.net application "this page should be processed as webforms".
Quality alternative to nforum!?
Hello,
I am searching for quality alternative for nforum because it is almost impossible to work with nforum and support is slow and low quality. I have posted many topics regarding this and I still don't heave any reply regarding nforum issues! Can anyone recommend me some quality alternative?
Any suggestions i welcome and many thanks in advance! Adi
There doesn't seem to be much alternative. There's just two forum packages available for umbraco:
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/umf
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/nforum
I have also read about http://chat.mvcforum.com/chat/installing-mvcforum-under-umbraco , no idea how useful result will be (mvcforum is made by same authors as nForum).
For now I'm living on 7.x, waiting for a miracle of nForum MVC to appear soon. If that wouldn't work, my best bet would be to use something like phpbb or ipboard. Will consider using UMF.
UPDATE: you actually got me interested, and with few minutes of googling I was able to find http://yetanotherforum.net/ , that says "it is possible to integrate in Umbraco". Would try different asp.net solutions before going to php.
Hi Dima,
thank you very much for this useful info, finally one solid answer!
I will try with http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/umf and let you know if it works out. Please tell me is it possible ti integrate this forum with Windows Active directory?
I am specially interested in popular forum solution based on asp.net independent of Umbraco and with accent on easy integration with Windows directory. That solution I would read through iframe using Umbraco so it soesn't necessarily has to be tyed with Umbraco, what i important is that it is developed in asp.net
Any suggestion is more than welcome!
Thanks, Adi
Just a warning (and I think I am correct) - http://yetanotherforum.net/ would have been a good bet if you are still using Umbraco with web forms because it will operate as a user control (ascx) but if using V6 or 7 of Umbraco under MVC razor, you will find that method wont work anymore.
By all means tell me I am wrong.
If nForum was to be migrated to V7.0, that would be a good integrated solution but I see that UMF is tagged as V6.0 and MVC so maybe I will try that.
>By all means tell me I am wrong.
I don't know how exactly, but there must be a way to execute webforms near MVC. That's what MS ASP.NET developers are bragging, like "there's no webforms and mvc, there's just asp.net, this two paradigms may live together in one app", etc.
This should be possible somehow (even if your render engine for Umbraco is set to MVC).
Dima,
We spent 6 days completely rewriting a previous user control as an integrated mvc item. I don't know whether to hope you are right or not.
I did check this out with one of the Gurus at the London Umbraco Festival last year and he confirmed not possible.
Did you try UMF?
>Did you try UMF?
no.
>rewriting a previous user control as an integrated mvc item
>confirmed not possible.
I'm thinking not about rewriting webforms control to work in mvc environment, but about being able to tell asp.net application "this page should be processed as webforms".
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