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From: Iain S. <iai...@gm...> - 2006-11-02 20:50:50
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I've suddenly had an influx of interest from many new developers wishing to help out with GMap.Net control. I'm now trying to get a much more formal and comprehensive Task list, as well as encouraging bug reports - hopefully this will aid communication amongst our small community of GMap.Netdevelopers. There's plenty of areas that require work at the moment, please feel free to help out with anything. (listed in order of importance) 1- Reverse engineering obfuscated Google Map API Javascript classes (see my latest blog post on the project website) 2- Custom javascript toString methods for each class (requires the reverse engineering, 1), and the parsing of these strings by the .Net classes. [I'm working mainly on this problem at the moment] 3 - Databinding. Earlier versions of the control only accepted basic GMarker data through the main GMap2 class. I expanded this to all GOverlay classes, using a sort of factory pattern and custom Databinding classes - see OnDataBinding(EventArgs e) in GMap2.cs. And now it is broken. 4 - Ajax. A couple of people have reported a bug with other Ajax controls - see the bug tracker. 5 - NUnit testing. it would be great to see unit testing to ensure quality code. 6 - FxCop. Framework conformance, there are some 300 nonconformance issues with the code. It would be great to see these reduced by cleaning up the .Net code. There is indeed tons to do, I hope the massive list hasn't scared you off! Just upload your patches to the sourceforge.net project page, and I'll review them and add your changes to the SVN. Good luck, Iain (sprocketonline) |
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From: Iain S. <iai...@gm...> - 2006-09-01 15:01:59
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It's great to see interest in this project. I hope you can take the time and check out the SVN files and create some patches. A few notes I'd like everyone to be aware of - Firstly, as I have been rather busy with this project on this over the past few weeks, and have effectively been the only active developer in that time period, my use of the SVN and SF has been slightly informal! I'll try and keep it a bit more formal (not commit broken updates for a start!). I also think it would be good to use the SF tracker/bug/task list facilities, but I feel the upgrade to version 2 is in such an early stage it would take too long to document everything that needs to be done and all the bugs - maybe a bit later! The status of the actual project - , at the moment it compiles, but because I renamed the sample website folder, the API now doesn't work - and despite trying all combinations of 'localhost' in the Google API key generator, I can't seem to get one that works! oops! As soon as I do we can then test the Javascript that it is churning out. I have created all the classes and functions of the API which the control needs to wrap, and created as much XML documentation as possible. I also marked a lot of areas with 'TODO', 'FIXME' and 'NOTE' so it is easy to pick up what needs to be done. (Also I have to say I am relatively new to ASP .NET <http://asp.net/> control programming, I normally do C#/Matlab scientific/engineering console apps, so there might be one or two comments at areas which I didn't fully understand first time round, but might seem relatively easy to others!!) Also as I understand it the Control uses a custom flavor of Ajax, it would maybe an idea to integrate the control with Anthem.Net (it is free and opensource compared to Professional Ajax.Net) - I set up a branch in SVN but I haven't done much work on it, but your comments would be helpful in this case. There are a couple of major areas which need attention - the XSL file, GMap2, is probably the largest. The geocoding is also a biggy, but non-essential at this early stage. We also need to implement all the functions which are still empty, this could be problematic for functions which are not Void - i.e. they have to calculate and return a value. I mentioned this in the blog ( http://gmapsdotnetcontrol.blogspot.com ), and sort of went off on a tangent on Reverse Ajax. While this post was a bit off topic, I apologise for that: I submitted it to Digg (and it then ended up on DZone and Del.icio.us etc etc.) which had the benefit of sending a couple hundred developers to view the Project - hopefully one or two might be interested in helping out with GMap.Net! regards, Iain |
