I'm developing a strategy for using Telerik controls within MOSS. Currently, my thinking is that I would prefer to deploy to the WebApplication bin directory rather than the GAC. The reason is I would like to minimize the amount of maintenance required when upgrading to a new version of Telerik controls. By deploying to the bin directory I should be able to reference the assembly in the config files without the full assembly name that includes the version number (haven't tried this on SafeControls yet - that one may get me).
Curious if there is any feedback as to whether this is a good approach, bad approach, any gotchas I may run into, etc.
Thanks.
Curious if there is any feedback as to whether this is a good approach, bad approach, any gotchas I may run into, etc.
Thanks.
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Hello rh,
Deploying in bin is generally not recommended because RadControls will not work in the default trust level (WS_MINIMAL). You need to increase the trust level to FULL or at leas Medium in order for RadControls to work. Other than that there are no known issues - registering SafeControls should work without the version attribute.
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Deploying in bin is generally not recommended because RadControls will not work in the default trust level (WS_MINIMAL). You need to increase the trust level to FULL or at leas Medium in order for RadControls to work. Other than that there are no known issues - registering SafeControls should work without the version attribute.
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Albert
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answered on 01 Jun 2009, 09:53 PM
OK, I'll deploy to the GAC. I've created a feature to install the appropriate web.config entries. I've found that I can omit the version number from the assembly attributes in the web.config entries and it will work. In this case it is suppose to always use the latest version that is in the GAC.
The next thing I'm not sure about is the following scenario:
Create a web part that references and uses RAD Controls for ASP.NET AJAX version 2009.1.401.35.
Quarter 2 comes along and a new version of the controls is released. Install this new version on the server in the GAC and remove the old version from the GAC. So now we only have version 2009.2.x.x in the GAC. Will the web part above that references 2009.1.401.35 break or will it automatically pick up and use the new version?
The next thing I'm not sure about is the following scenario:
Create a web part that references and uses RAD Controls for ASP.NET AJAX version 2009.1.401.35.
Quarter 2 comes along and a new version of the controls is released. Install this new version on the server in the GAC and remove the old version from the GAC. So now we only have version 2009.2.x.x in the GAC. Will the web part above that references 2009.1.401.35 break or will it automatically pick up and use the new version?
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Hi rh,
We have not tested this specific scenario but I guess it would work. It may require only a <bindingRedirect /> in web.config.
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We have not tested this specific scenario but I guess it would work. It may require only a <bindingRedirect /> in web.config.
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answered on 02 Jun 2009, 03:09 PM
OK, I'll have to test this scenario out. Without it I honestly don't see how we can use Telerik controls within MOSS because it would be too much of a maintenance issue to have to update every single one of our features every time we wanted to upgrade to a new version of the Telerik controls.