DNN 8.0 and Evoq 8.3: Improving the Developer Experience
Joe Brinkman
VP, Technology &
Community Relations
@jbrinkman
Will Morgenweck
VP, Product Management
@wmorgenweck
The Developer Experience
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Highlights for Developers
• Build Modules with ASP.NET MVC 5
• Improved support for building SPA-like modules
• Visual Studio Templates
• Web API 2.0
• JSON Web Token (JWT)
• Controls for excluding individual CSS and JS files
• Image Handler for server-side image resizing
• Separation of Admin modules to provider greater control.
• Removed legacy modules to improve performance and reduce resource footprint.
• Updated minimum system requirements.
Additional Highlights for Evoq
• Optimizely connector for creating A/B tests.
• Manage user roles from within the Persona Bar.
• Additional content subscription options.
• Added option for Emojis within content
• Improved comments to allow for embedding images, videos and files.
• Performance and scalability improvements
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Changes Ahead
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Possible Breaking Changes
• Changes to Minimum Requirements
• Extracted and Removed Modules (SiteLog, Newsletters, Vendors, Banners)
• Removal of Legacy Navigation Providers
• UrlRouting Module
• Change for Website Project to Web Application Project
• Removal of Legacy Connection String
• Changes to Default.css
• Telerik Assembly Change
More details: http://dnn.ly/DNN8-Changes
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Questions & Resources
Download DNN!http://dnn.ly/DNN8-Download
Try Evoq!http://dnn.ly/TryEvoq
Visual Studio Templates
http://dnn.ly/DNN8-Templates
Wiki
http://www.dnnsoftware.com/wiki
Breaking Changes
http://dnn.ly/DNN8-Changes
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