CSLA 6 prerelease 8 online

[rockfordlhotka]

I have pushed CSLA 6 prerelease 8 (R22040701) to NuGet.

I suspect just one more prerelease before the final CSLA 6 release, which is exciting!

This is a big prerelease, with a lot of bugs and some key missing features added.

With this prerelease all the samples run except for ProjectTracker. Going through all the samples did reveal and enable fixing a number of bugs and missing features for various UI platforms. At this point there are working samples for Windows Forms, WPF, Xamarin, ASP.NET Core MVC, ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, server-side Blazor, Blazor WebAssembly, and console apps.

ℹ️ I expect to update ProjectTracker as part of the 6.1.0 release (immediately following the 6.0.0 release. This is because updating ProjectTracker is a big project by itself, and I don't want to delay the 6.0.0 release that long.

Highlights:

• Update samples for CSLA 6 #2552
• In pure AspNet .NET 6 (razor or mvc only - no blazor)...Csla requires registration of AuthenticationStateProvider #2850
• Rule context objects should expose ApplicationContext #2839
• Please update the Uno Example #2500
• Remove .NET 5 support #2851
• Error 'Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime.Loader, Version=4.0.0.0, ' remains for Xamarin Forms application #2715
• CslaDataProvider needs to work with CSLA 6 dependency injection #2854
• IDataPortalActivator create and resolve are obsolete #2866
• DataPortalServerOptions methods aren't fluent as expected #2867
• Some types are missing protected ApplicationContext #2868
• ObjectFactory needs access to ApplicationContext #2869
• RevalidatingInterceptor doesn't handle a root collection type #2877
• RevalidatingInterceptor doesn't handle async rules #2878
• RevalidatingInterceptor shouldn't trigger lazy loading of properties #2879
• Should FieldManager expose an UpdateChildrenAsync method to avoid sync over async? #2393
• Default PropertyChangedMode to Windows for Blazor apps #2833

Thank you to all who reported bugs and contributed code to this prerelease!

• @swegele
• @TheCakeMonster
• @poepoe
• @JacoJordaan
• @GreatBarrier86
• @michaelcsikos

If I missed anyone I am sorry, these are the names from GitHub issues and PRs that were submitted.