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[Anthony Dang]

"The other question we need to ask is how important people think having MVC 5/WebApi 2 support is, or if people would simply just be happy to wait for the upgrade in v8."

V8 makes sense.

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MVC 5 + WebApi 2

Aaron Powell <m...@aaron-powell.com>: Jan 03 09:27AM +1100 The reason the strict dependency in Umbraco is a problem for me is that Umbraco is a CMS, it’s good at doing content management but it is not good at describing how I should write my application.     One thing that I’ve always liked about Umbraco over other CMSs that I’ve used is that it gets out of my way in generating HTML, meaning I can do as crazy a HTML design as my designers come up with. I’d like a similar thing with the dev side, if I want to use MVC5 Umbraco shouldn’t prevent me, it shouldn’t have to ship it in-the-box but through binding redirects there should be no reason I should have to recompile Umbraco.     From: umbra...@googlegroups.com [mailto:umbra...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shannon Deminick Sent: Friday, 2 January 2015 11:19 AM To: umbra...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: MVC 5 + WebApi 2     @Aaron - I would also love it if we had a codebase that supported both MVC4/5 and WebApi1/2 but it's not possible because of Microsoft's changes. As noted, this is mostly due to their backward compatibility changes for these assemblies: Microsoft.Web.Mvc.FixedDisplayModes, Microsoft.Web.Helpers. There's a reason MS had to make major version changes too since their code isn't 100% backwards compatible. I'm not sure why you see this as a 'bigger' problem, it's just the way things are and is outside of our control. That said, there is a pretty ugly way that we can make Umbraco's core support both: We create a separate DLL called Umbraco.Web.FixedDisplayModes which contains the fixed view engines and replaces the normal ones on startup. We use reflection to apply this logic (rev: 38f3e3dd6876fdec9fe649579390c91d710da2ee) to see if HttpRequestMessage has a RequestContext property.     If we did that for the next 7.3 release, then people would be able to upgrade their installs themselves but would need to follow both MS's instructions: http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/releases/how-to-upgrade-an-aspnet-mvc-4-and-web-api-project-to-aspnet-mvc-5-and-web-api-2 and our own custom instructions since people would also need to remove a new Umbraco.Web.FixedDisplayModes assembly.     So I suppose this could be an option #6     The other question we need to ask is how important people think having MVC 5/WebApi 2 support is, or if people would simply just be happy to wait for the upgrade in v8.       -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Umbraco development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to umbraco-dev...@googlegroups.com <mailto:umbraco-dev...@googlegroups.com> . To post to this group, send email to umbra...@googlegroups.com <mailto:umbra...@googlegroups.com> . To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/umbraco-dev/c0667953-24d0-4fad-929d-4bcf795c9d75%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/umbraco-dev/c0667953-24d0-4fad-929d-4bcf795c9d75%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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[Shannon Deminick]

@anth Your reply seems to have have gone in to a different thread