nopCommerce v2.00 BETA released

We are extremely happy to announce the availability of nopCommerce v2.00 BETA for download. If you would like to participate in the testing portion of our development cycle and report bugs you find, this beta release might be for you. This release is unstable and should not be used anyplace where your data is important.

The final version release is now scheduled for the end of July. If you need any help with beta version or want to report a bug, please use our forums. If you want to fix a found bug, you're also welcome to create a new fork on our CodePlex repository (found more info about it here)

nopCommerce 2.00 BETA was rewritten from scratch. Our development efforts were focused on moving nopCommerce to ASP.NET MVC 3.0, architecture improvements, further enhancements and fixing bugs.

Highlight features & improvements:
•  Moved to ASP.NET MVC 3.0 (Razor syntax)
•  Really pluggable architecture (just drop a plugin to the /plugins folder in your nopCommerce directory)
•  SQL Server Compact support
•  Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4 (data access)
•  Other architecture improvements
•  More user-friendly admin area
•  Added unit tests
•  A lot of refactoring

Some features are not implemented yet. But they should be finished with the final 2.00 version. Here are some of them:
•  One-page checkout
•  It doesn't work in medium trust (Automapper issue)

The upgrade utility will be provided a bit later

Visit this page to download the latest version and get involved in the nopCommerce Community.

UPDATE: Here is an important note about shipping & payment modules. We decided to don't ship nopCommerce with all that payment modules that were included in the previous versions (about 35 modules). Only 8 of them are available out of the box. All other payment modules will be available as plugins

Outstanding.
I am a manager of an engineering department that supports more than 160 web applications. Believe me when I say what I have seen in the two previous versions of nopCommerce has impressed me. I appreciate the work you all are doing and the effort the re-write has taken. As a member of the community, I thank you.

Congratulations - excellent news! Will be getting our hands dirty with it shortly! :-)

Filip

Thumbs up. Impressive work, looks very very good (source code, output, ...).

Hi,
Tahnk you all of this .Looks great now....




Mustafa TEKİN
Computer Engineer |  skype:mustafa.tekin12  | mail:  [email protected]  |

Outstanding...

Need to learn a lot of new things :)

Is there a short instruction document with pre-install this first and a how to setup.

If you are new to MVC there is Microsoft tutorial here http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials#ASP.NET%20MVC%20Music%20Store

It will walk you through creating an eCommerce music store. With it you will become familiar with the principles of Model View Controller and Microsoft's implementation with Razor. All things you will need if you are going to tweak v2.0

chuck6478 wrote:

Thanks :)

I guess a lot of people think it's interesting because the link doesn't work for now..wil try again later.

I had a similar problem when I was preparing the post. I can assure you the link is good. I was on the site less than 60 seconds before I posted it. Perhaps MS is experiencing some issues with their server or the traffic volume is high.

When you do finally connect, you will find there are several other MVC tutorials there as well.

You will see that the transition from 1.90 to MVC has to have taken a considerable amount of work, hence the "complete re-write." Again, I applaud the effort.

Thank you Andrei...

Can't wait to test the beta version...