Mark your calendar 13:58 on December 12, 2008 the development staff completed the last of the 295 ASP.NET web projects, thus heaving the Manage 2000 7.3 web footprint on top Microsoft's not-so-backwardly-compatible Visual Studio 2008 designer.
This is an important achievement in terms of product life expectancy as it puts the Manage 2000 web presence on supported Microsoft technology for at least the next 5 years.
Hopefully, next time they will be a little kinder and gentler with backward compatibility.
This is not the end of development for the 7.3 release. It is not even the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning,to paraphrase Carnahan paraphrasing Churchill.
Next up is build and install capability so that as developers add and enhance application functionality we can easily re-install development sites and do integration testing.
Then the real fun begins putting to good use all of the fantastic enhancements in ASP.NET 3.5 and Infragistics 2008 to make Manage 2000 7.3 web functions sizzle.
