Visual Studio 2015 compatibility

Bryan Johnson asked on July 24, 2015 21:04

I am starting up a brand new Kentico project soon, including new dev environments, staging area, and production farm. Are there any known problems/concerns using the newly released Visual Studio 2015 with Kentico 8.2 that I should be aware of?

Thanks!

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Virgil Carroll answered on July 25, 2015 00:31

Kentico right now does not support ASP.NET 4.6, so proceed at your own risk. I got it to 'work' on my system but page load was taking a ton of time. I ended up having to revert back to 2013 and get rid of 4.6 off my system all together.

As of now Kentico has said they will support 2015 and 4.6 with version 9

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Bryan Johnson answered on July 25, 2015 01:15

Thanks for the insight. Did you try targeting .NET 4.5 within VS2015?

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Virgil Carroll answered on July 25, 2015 06:43

Yes the project was set to target 4.5...but I was also doing most of my testing under local host vs VS built in...could be a difference.

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Charles Matvchuk answered on July 25, 2015 15:29

I am having no issues using VS 2015 and have been using the RC for some time and now the RTM. Speed is better than VS 2013, just target the correct .NET stack. Unfortunately, unless Kentico rewrites the core, it will never be able to be run under vNext and .Net 5. System.Web no longer exists on that that path. Also all of the cool features of the new Rosalyn compiler are not available under 4.6 path. Microsoft indicates that they will be supporting two branches for a while but I will bet 2-4 years and then there will be movement.

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