March 2009 - Posts
Paul Litwin posted an interesting article that discusses the four pillars of ASP.NET (Web Forms, MVC, AJAX, and Dynamic Data) to his blog. He provides a good overview and comparison of these different approaches to building ASP.NET applications. According to the article, although Web Forms will always be an important Microsoft technology for building web applications, ASP.NET is no longer just Web Forms. And, this is a good thing :) You can read his blog entry here: http://weblogs.asp.net/paullitwin/archive/2009/03/30/the-four-pillars-of-asp-net.aspx Read More...
While I was running around Mix09 and the MVP Summit this last few weeks I was taking video with my Flip Ultra and my new Creative Vado HD ( I took the Flip Mino HD back , as I thought the quality was poor). I put a bunch of these videos up on Channel 9 and declared it " Hanselminutes On 9 ." It's not official, but maybe if you leave comments they'll make it a regular thing. Some of the videos are pretty cool . Others, totally useless . ;) While Channel 9 recompresses my already compressed streams, I want to point out that the letterboxed 16:9 videos were done with the Creative Vado HD , then the aspect ratio was changed with Expression Encoder . The 4:3 videos were done with my regular Flip Ultra. Let me know which ones you...
Thank you everyone who came to my one day ASP.NET MVC workshop at ASP.NET Connections. We managed to build an entire Movie Database application with unit tests and a reasonably good design -- Congratulations! I've attached the Movie Database application and the demo code from the workshop below. Workshop Code Read More...
My one-hundred-and-fifty-fourth podcast is up . Scott's at Mix09 in Las Vegas this week and he sits down with Chris Woods , a Program Manager on the Mobile Browse Platform Team. They've just open sourced a MASSIVE database of mobile device capabilities , enabling better mobile development for ASP.NET developers. You can also check out Chris's Mix session on Mobile , or my NerdDinner ASP.NET MVC talk . Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show #154 Play in your browser . Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts , a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show. Telerik is a sponsor for this show! Building quality software is never easy. It requires skills and imagination. We cannot...
After my critical post of the Mix website, I found this other site, http://sessions.visitmix.com/ , which should have been prominently linked to from the main site because it has a working search bar and is fairly usable and flashy! I gave two sessions on ASP.NET MVC at Mix. ASP.NET MVC: America’s Next Top Model View Controller Framework ASP.NET MVC Ninjas on Fire Black Belt Tips As you can see, we tried to have a bit of fun with the session titles. If you’re not tired of hearing me talk about MVC, you can also see an interview I did with Adam Kinney on Channel 9. I will be posting my demos on my blog sometime soon hopefully. I want to give a few of them the full blog treatment. Partly because all of my demos are built live and I don’t keep...
I gave a talk at Mix 09 today called File | New Company: Creating NerdDinner.com with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC . It was a fun, if challenging talk to do. I did it it with no slides at all. Just me and Visual Studio. It was one of two talks at Mix that had just code. I wonder if it'll catch on? ;) Anyway, it was quite the tightrope walk. I'll post the video here as soon as it's posted on the Mix 09 Sessions Site . UPDATED: Here's the link to the video of my Mix09 talk: Session Video: File | New Company: Creating NerdDinner.com with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC The general structure was to start a File | New Company and build as much of NerdDinner.com as I could in the 75 minutes allotted. Here's a few of the highlights... XHTML Strict...
We are having a fine time at Mix '09 here in Las Vegas. You may have watched the keynotes live at http://live.visitmix.com/ . Even better, you can watch the sessions as fast as they can get them up online at http://sessions.visitmix.com/MIX09 . Here's a couple of choice (my choice) sessions you should check out. They are really well presented with not just slides, but also video of the presenter. Day One Keynote and Day Two Keynote What's New in Silverlight 3 - Joe Stegman is the Group Program Manager for the SL3 runtime. This is a good overview. Also check out Tim's detailed guide to Silverlight 3 new features blog post. Building Out of Browser Experiences with Microsoft Silverlight 3 - If you haven't heard, you'll...
Today I’m happy to write that ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTW (Release To Web) is now officially released . This was one of several announcements ScottGu made at the Mix 09 conference today, which I unfortunately missed because I was on a plane to Vegas enroute to Mix 09. I was busy back at the mother ship making sure everything was in order for the release. Woohoo! It’s been nearly a year and a half since I joined Microsoft and started working on it and what a ride it’s been. Some highlights during that time: We shipped our unit tests using a third party OSS mock framework on CodePlex. We bundled jQuery , a third party OSS JavaScript framework, with ASP.NET MVC itself. I gave my first PDC talk covering the basics of ASP.NET MVC. We shipped the RTM! With...
I don’t know about you, but a great way to learn a new technology is to start using it. But to even start using it, it helps to be able to look at a real-world running application built on that technology. Combine that with source code and a walkthrough, and I think you have a winning combination. That’s where NerdDinner comes in. NerdDinner.com is the brainchild (and a big child at that) of Scott Hanselman. The concept is simple, let’s get nerds together over dinner so great ideas can flourish. The site is a great way to organize nerd dinners all over the place. The site is live and built using ASP.NET MVC, so go check it out . But don’t stop there. Now that you’ve seen the site, go check out the source code on CodePlex . What better way to...
Today is a pretty cool day. It's the culmination of a bunch of little stuff and a lot of hard work by some really nice dudes. Here's a few surprises. Rob, Phil, and I have been working on the ASP.NET MVC book for a while. One (poorly kept) surprise is the inclusion of ScottGu as an author on the book. Between the four of us, we got enough forehead space for like six guys. Here's where it gets cool. Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Today we're releasing the first 185 pages of the book as a FREE PDF download . Not only that, it's licensed as Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives . You can share, distribute, hand out, transmit it all you like. You can even include it in your own book if you'd like. ;) We worked really hard on...
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