Steve Naughton just posted a great series of articles on how he implemented an attribute based permission system that works with Dynamic Data. This is something that we had been thinking about putting in the product early on, but decided against for a couple reasons: This was a short product cycle for us, and we had some pressure to limit the v1 feature set. We were not confident that we could come up with something generic enough to please everyone, so we opted instead to make Dynamic Data extensible enough that the permission system could be implemented on top of it. Thanks a lot to Steve for coming up with this and taking the time to blog it so thoroughly! Feel free to leave comments on Steve's blog, or in this forum thread where...
Today, we released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta, which include the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data . The part that gets a little bit confusing is that the Dynamic Data bits that come with the brand new Beta are actually older than Preview bits that we've had out for a while on Code Gallery ! The reason for this is that getting a VS Beta out is a pretty big deal, and we need to start locking down the bits long before the beta goes out. But while we stopped changing the beta bits a while back, we continued to work full speed on what will eventually become the RTM bits. The great thing is that we have been able to put frequent updates up on Code Gallery, which has allowed us to get some super valuable user feedback...