I posted a few weeks ago about the way in which the Admin project and plugins are stored in the solution.
We have just pushed up some proposed changes to the solution structure to try to prompt some discussion on this.
The issues we had were:
1. The Admin project was logically outside the web project but physically inside it.
2. The reliance on the build script outside of studio to create the "real" structure for deployment.
3. Publishing to Windows Azure requires the structure of the solution to match what the final structure will be
The proposed solution can be found in our fork at https://hg.codeplex.com/forks/cj_browna/azureimplementation
In essence the change we made was to move the admin out of a seperate project and into an Area within the main app.
We are using NOP on the azure platform for some high profile/traffic sites (we are a top 3 australian retailer) but the current structure makes deployements difficult which serves as a barrier to other people adopting nop on the azure platform.
Our development team would like to keep using nop and commit our azure related enhancements back to the core project but Azure support seems to have been given low priority and visibility in recent releases. We are keen for the core team to look at our fork and let us know if they are interested in working with us to promote the use of nop on the azure platform.
Regards
Todd Whitehead
Harvey Norman Kitchenware
Harvey Norman Travel Gear
[url= http://www.harveynormandirectimport.com]Harvey Norman Direct Import[/url]
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