Thread: Beyond V9 - Planning Ahead

I haven't done a very good job of keeping my mods organized in the past and am taking the opportunity to move things around and cleanup to make upgrades easier.

Going forward, which directories are going to be relatively safe during an upgrade? In other words, what will be the new "delete everything but.." list?

Also, what would be considered "Best Practice" for locating addition jscripts etc? I am guessing App_Templates?

Thanks!
Rob

Keep all of your stuff in distinct folders. We always recommend deleting the contents of your site during an upgrade and then only restoring what is necessary. This prevents duplicate code in the event that we change an assembly name or move code around. Best practices for doing custom development:

• Whenever possible, use portable code such as AddIns or XML Packages
• Place all compiled in a separate class, or better, a separate project/class library
• Comment all of your mods with a unique string that is easy to search for, such as // MOD START so you can find any mod you make using CTRL + F
• With custom scripts and things like that, put them in your own folder

That is really about it..

Perfect - Thanks!

Yeah, normally we don't make breaking releases, but we had to on v9 for Master Page Skins, AJAX, Add-Ins, etc...so, if you do keep your code in separate class files, dll's, and just comment them, it is pretty simple to re-merge them (in nearly all cases), and you may have to fixup a few interfaces if we changed any (like we did in v9)...db is usually safe and just upgrade script. Any fields you added to it usually just stay unaffected.