Gold Coast : .NET Framework 4.0

Entity Framework 4.0 Sneak Previews

marcsc — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:17:11 GMT

If you haven’t been keeping up on the ADO.NET team blog, but you want to get up to speed with what’s coming in the next release of the Entity Framework (.NET 4.0), then now is the time to start monitoring their blog. Since 5/11, they’ve cranked out seven posts on new features. I like what they are doing. The post on 5/11 gives you a high level update. Then, they have followed it up with “Sneak Previews” of specific improvements. Definitely worth the time to read through these posts!

What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 and VS2010 Beta 1?

marcsc — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:10:25 GMT

Comprehensive whitepaper for Web Development:

http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet40/

jQuery & MicrosoftAjax “happy together”

marcsc — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:49:47 GMT

I’ve been using jQuery quite a bit lately. I’ve grown very fond of it. At the same time, I have been digging into ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. I just read a post from Bertand Le Roy that made me smile. In his post, he shows how you can do the following:

     <ul class="dv">

        <li>{{ $dataItem }}</li>

    </ul>

    <script type="text/javascript">   1:     $(".dv").dataView({ data: ["foo", "bar", "baz"] });</script>

To me, being able to instantiate a DataView control using the jQuery plugin syntax is PRETTY COOL! Check out the details of how all this works and download the sample at:

http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2009/05/04/creating-jquery-plug-ins-from-microsoftajax-components.aspx

DevDinnerOnDemand: What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0

marcsc — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:34:46 GMT

I decided not to publish the last Developer Dinner in favor of pointing you to newer sessions last weeks MIX 09 conference. These sessions basically cover everything I covered at the dinner and more.

Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 : What's Next?

Choosing between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC

Microsoft ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level

There are some other great sessions on ASP.NET & MVC as well. You can check out all the ASP.NET content by going to https://content.visitmix.com/2009/sessions/default.aspx and selecting the ASP.NET tag on the left hand side just under the session/agenda selection tool.

REMINDER: The follow up post for this developer is at:

http://tinyurl.com/aspnet4devdinner

DEVELOPER DINNER: What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 (Web Forms, AJAX, and JQuery)?

marcsc — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:41:05 GMT

Attend this event for your chance to win an Xbox 360

Xbox 360 will be raffled at the conclusion of the dinner.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:00 PM - Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 5:30 PM

Microsoft Reston Office

12012 Sunset Hills Rd
Reston Virginia 20190-5869
United States

Event Overview

Background:

In October 2008 at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, the ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap was presented which provided a walk through the 4.0 landscape from ASP.NET and discussed the core ‘themes’ of ASP.NET 4.0 – Web Forms, Core Infrastructure, Model View Controller (MVC), Data and Dynamic Data and AJAX. ASP.NET 4.0, in combination with the .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 will deliver some excellent features that will help make your client side coding easier, maintainable and allow you to add some real flashiness to your web pages. The February Developer Dinner will focus on some of the new features of ASP.NET 4.0 as well as a few of the new enhancements, to provide you with an early preview of the exciting capabilities of the Microsoft Developer Platform.

What You Will Learn:

The evening’s presentation will be a running stream of demonstration focused on the following features and functionality that will be a part of the next release of ASP.NET

Web Forms - You will see how to take control of your control IDs, display images using the new DynamicImage control, learn about better ViewState management in GridView and ListView, and get more control over the CSS markup of ASP.NET server controls.
AJAX - We will explore the new ASP.NET AJAX client template and data binding framework, including declarative UI, controls, data binding in the browser, and integration with Data Services and server pages.
JQuery - Microsoft is integrating the open source JQuery library into both the ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC frameworks and providing full product support. Learn how you can take advantage of JQuery to build richly interactive client-side Ajax applications when developing either ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC applications. Also see how JQuery works in combination with ASP.NET AJAX to provide the best framework for building Ajax applications.

Who Should Come:

This is an opportunity to get ahead of the curve of some of the new developer productivity enhancements first hand. If you are someone who builds, architects, or manages development teams using the Microsoft development platform, this presentation is for you.

FOLLOW UP: Reston Developer Conference 04DEC08

marcsc — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:01:19 GMT

Vlad and I would like thank everyone for attending the conference! Here are the downloads:

What I’ve learned about Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 (and beyond), Silverlight 3 (and beyond) – deck

"Oslo" and "Dublin" Overview – deck, code

Windows Azure Overview – deck, code

SQL Data Services Overview – deck

.NET Services Overview – deck

All the demos I showed are available through the Azure Services Training Kit and the .NET Services SDK available from:

http://www.microsoft.com/azure/netservices.mspx