Vertigo Software's .NET Pet Shop 4.0 article just went live on MSDN.
It's Pet Shop! You know... our old pal, Pet Shop:
However, unlike previous versions of Pet Shop, this version is not a benchmark comparison with Java. It's purely a showcase for ASP.NET 2.0 features and best practices when porting a site from ASP.NET 1.1.
The lineage of Pet Shop is a little hard to trace, but it goes something like this:
| 1.x | ASP.NET 1.0 | Direct port of Java Pet Store reference application. |
| 2.x | ASP.NET 1.1 | Minor update for new ASP.NET 1.1 release. |
| 3.x | ASP.NET 1.1 | Incorporates community feedback; improved architecture to better align with Microsoft Patterns & Practices recommendations. |
| 4.x | ASP.NET 2.0 | Complete rewrite; no longer functionally equivalent to Java reference application. |
Although Pet Shop was developed here at Vertigo over the last 8 months, I wasn't personally involved with Pet Shop in any capacity. We are definitely interested in your feedback, however. Dialog with the community is what drove Pet Shop 3.0 development. Alan created a public blog entry on the Vertigo Pet Shop blog soliciting comments; feel free to drop by and comment any time.