December 2007 - Posts
We found that the Dynamic Data preview has a pretty nasty caching bug that prevents updates from showing up in some foreign key scenarios. Marcin has posted a fix on his blog , so if you run into this, please check it out. Read More...
Now that ScottGu blogged about it , we have received a number of great feedback and questions. I'll try to answer some them here. Will this work with MVC? In this initial Preview, Dynamic Data is mostly targeting 'standard' ASP.NET pages, but we are absolutely planning to support Dynamic Data for MVC. And the good news is that you can actually try this today! To do this: Download the MVC Toolkit from http://asp.net/downloads/3.5-extensions/ This has a VS solution which contains a sample Blog project that uses Dynamic Data with MVC. This was completely unadvertised, so most folks probably didn't see it, but it's in there for you to play with! Start by just running it, and then look through the...
I made a screencast which walks through a basic scenario of using ASP.NET Dynamic Data in a simple site using Northwind. It's about 17 minutes long. Enjoy and feel free to give any feedback here or in the forum . Read More...
Today, we released the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview , which includes the exciting Dynamic Data feature. A lot has happened since we released an early version of Dynamic Data Controls in the May ASP.NET Futures release. While it was already an exciting feature, it was not very customizable and was limited to a small set of scenarios. While this new version preserves the essence of the original, it is also completely different. Not only it addresses the limited customization, but it also brings a lot of new things. Since most of you are likely new to Dynamic Data, let me start with a quick introduction of what it is about. The core purpose is to make it easy to write powerful and extensible data driven web application. Here are some of the steps...
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