Plugin authors, please read

[sub]

There has been a few significant changes behind the scenes in the next release, and this will have a flow on effect to plugins. The biggest changes include moving to .NET 2.0, changing the way database connections work.

While many existing .NET 1.1 plugins work just fine on the .NET 2.0 version of GB-PVR, I must encourage plugin developers to test their plugins for compatibility. To get access to this new build, send me a PM and I'll supply you download info. In the PM let me know which plugins you are developer of.

This is particularly important for developers that have connected directly to the GBPVR.MDB database. If you do this, then it wont work in the next release. I can give you alternative info on how to do this under the new scheme. The old 'head in the sand' approach to ignoring this wont help - those plugins that do this will crash in the next release if they dont get changed.

[McBainUK]

I can confirm that UK Cinema, Files (beta),UI Elements Libary, Volume OSD, Gmail and Calendar all work with the .NET 2.0 version of GB-PVR without needing a recompile.

Having said that I will be moving to VS2005 / .NET 2.0 shortly. Just need to find the 5 installation CDs... :eek:

[psycik]

Actually sub, can you post the DB connection alternative as well. I dont think I use it, but it may be something I want to look at anyways (for ML2 which is pretty DB intensive).

Have you gone to connection pooling of some sort?

[sub]

I'll post some info about this after the public release. I want to wait until I get feedback from pre-release testers about this.

[sub]

As part of the testing .NET 2.0 compatibility, we found that there is a small change needed for plugins that implement the IRecordingSourceConfiguration. I think this only affects the External Recording, WDM Software Recorder & SkyStar2 plugin. Can you guys, or any other developer using this interface, please send me a PM to discuss the minor change required? Thanks.