AppTheory has been working with DotNetNuke “DNA” since the announcement of ASP.Net Beta 2 at TechEd Atlanta (June of 2001). This conference marked the “Go Live” release of the ASP.Net platform and also the first release of IBUYSPY Portal and Storefront samples which would later become DotNetNuke.

This GoLive release and the compelling code “sample” –IBUYSPY -- built by Virtigo for Microsoft, marked the shift from ASP to ASP.net for AppTheory.

Check out the announcement from Scott Guthrie marking the occasion on the late aspfriends/asplists listserve:

Tue 6/19/2001:

I’m pleased to announce the public availability of ASP.NET Beta 2. It can be downloaded immediately from http://www.asp.net. Total size is only 18MB - making it ideal for web download. It will install and run on Windows 2000 and Windows XP (both workstation and server additions).

Beta2 is a major milestone in the ASP.NET project. It contains all of the features planned for V1, and meets an extremely high quality bar - one that we feel confident will support production deployments of .NET Web applications.

A host of large scale applications have already gone live on ASP.NET Beta 2 (we specifically waited to release Beta2 until all the production bugs they found were fixed) and the list of these applications will continue to grow over the summer. Visit the sites below to see ASP.NET Beta 2 in action today:

-- MSN Music: http://music.msn.com
-- Office Update: http://office.microsoft.com
-- UDDI: http://uddi.microsoft.com
-- MSN Yellow Pages: http://yellowpages.msn.com

With Beta2 we will be supporting the "ASP.NET Go Live" license - which will specifically permit customers to use the beta to launch production applications. We expect this summer to be a fun period of web development as more and more ASP.NET sites appear across the web.

On behalf of the entire ASP.NET Team, I’d like to thank you for your continued effort and support of ASP.NET. It is really exciting for us on the product team to see all of the interest and activity around the beta today. We can’t wait to see it grow even more as we complete the push to RTM.

Happy Coding,
-- Scott

P.S. A few additional Beta 2 Notes:

-- Before installing Beta 2 please make sure to remove Beta 1 from your machine. If you have the .NET Framework SDK Beta1 installed you can accomplish this simply by running the uninstall program (within Add/Remove Programs). If you have VS.NET Beta1 installed you will unfortunately need to re-install your drive partition.

-- The 18MB download available at www.asp.net does not ship with local documentation or samples (it instead creates an “ASP.NET” start menu that links off to online versions of these). To obtain local documentation and samples please install the .NET Framework SDK (127MB download).

-- Beta 2 contains a large number of breaking changes from Beta 1. You will almost certainly need to update existing Beta1 code to work on the latest bits. Our plan is for Beta 2 to contain the final APIs for the product - as such you should not need to make such major changes again for RTM.

-- The developer solution application site at http://www.IBuySpy.com has been updated for Beta2. Tonight only the IBuySpy Store is available for download - Beta 2 of the IBuySpy Portal will appear later this week.