Does anyone having Mojo running under .NET 4.5, any issues? I woudn't think so but am curious what others are doing.

Thanks,

This site is now running on .NET 4.5. From what I gather it is a compatible in place upgrade to .NET 4, its really like .NET 4 with a few additions bolted on much like .NET 3.5 was really .NET 2 with a few additions. Only problem I had that I should have forseen was that it took 2 server reboots to install .NET 4.5 and its security updates, should have waited till off hours to install it but its done.

Best,

Joe

On my server the only step was to install .NET 4.5, it is an in place upgrade for .NET 4 so all sites that were using .NET 4 automatically use .NET 4.5 after installing it. In fact the 4.5 framework is really the 4.0 framework just as the 3/3.5 was really 2.0. So even when using .NET 4.5 asp.net reports the framework version as v4.0.30319 as seen un mojoPortal under Administration > System Information.

On my windows 8 dev machine it was a little different in that the installation of 4.5 created new application pools for 4.5 whereas on the server no new app pools were created the .NET 4 app pool is updated to 4.5 but still labeled 4.0. I guess on a desktop dev environment they want you to be able to run 4.0 and 4.5 side by side for app debugging purposes but on the server it just upgrades the existing .NET 4 to 4.5 (which as mentioned is really just 4.0 with maybe a newer build number.

Hope that helps,

Joe

mojoPortal is still compiled for 4.0 and I don't recommend you change that or modify any mojoPortal code. Actually, only the UI projects are even compiled for 4.0, the business and data layers are compiled for 3.5 because we use the same ones in our package for 3.5 and we don't need any new 4.x functionality in those projects. So we have 2 versions of each ui project so that we can still compile packages for 3.5.

So 4.5 is our recommended hosting environment now and mojoPortal runs great under that framework but we are not yet compiled for 4.5 and not able to use any new tidbits that are only in 4.5 yet, though you could in your own custom projects. ie you can change the build targets in your custom projects to 4.5 if you want but I don't suggest you modify anything in mojoPortal projects at all.

There are no needed changes in web.config and no app pool settings needed changing on my server as mentioned in my previous post. There is no new app pool for 4.5 in a production environment. On my win 8 dev machine I did change my dev site to use a 4.5 app pool since one exists but no such app pool exists on my server.

4.5 is completely compatible with 4.0, but new 4.5 features can only be used if you do compile to that framework.