ASP.NET AJAX Team Blogs

What is .NET RIA Services?

Yesterday at Mix we announced .NET RIA Services…  We are very early in the development cycle for .NET RIA Services and we are eager to get your feedback and thoughts.   The marketing blurb catches the key points: Microsoft .NET RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. The RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.   (shamelessly stolen from...

FOLLOW UP: Developer Dinner on .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Thanks to everyone who attended!  You can download the deck and links to the code here: Normally, I make my actual demo code available for download.  However, this time around, my demo code was based on the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit.  I blogged about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/08/18/free-training-on-net-framework-3-5-sp1-and-asp-net-mvc.aspx The kit has everything I showed in my demos and more!  I also promised to link to a bunch of good content out there on the various topics. General MSDN -> Data Platform Development “How Do I?” Videos — Data Platform Development ADO.NET Entity Framework MSDN Library -> ADO.NET Entity Framework ADO.NET Team Blog Entity Framework...

Loving the South African Developer Community

I just got back from South Africa and I am happy to report that the .NET Developer community is very strong there.    User's Group Meetings in in Johannesburg and Cape Town User group meeting in Johannesburg  - thanks for setting this up Craig Nicholson ..  I had a great time showing off Silverlight 2.  We had lot of fun talking about Silverlight wit these slides and demo that I did.  I also showed HardRock DeepZoom , the video wall and HSN.TV User group meeting in Cape Town - Thanks to Hilton Giesenow for setting this up.  This time I did a drill down into the ASP.NET MVC framework.  The response was excellent!   Thanks folks for your questions and interest!  Here is the slides...

Enhanced Mix08 Videos Posted

We recently finished the post product work required to get enhanced videos posted.  The videos not only include slides\demos, but also include a separate video stream of the speaker  so you get a deeper experience.   Mix08 Session Overview: Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 [ Watch this video ] Unfortunately, this videos are not available for download, so you have to watch them on line.. Enjoy this and the rest of the sessions at http://sessions.visitmix.com/ Read More...

FOLLOW UP: Public Sector Developer Conference (Downers Grove, IL)

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here are the links to the decks and code for the sessions.  I don't have the content from the LINQ & VSTO sessions yet, but will update this post when I get them.  However, I did promise to have a post up this morning. How Visual Studio Team System 2008 will benefit your organization? - deck Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Overview of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 & ASP.NET MVC - deck , resources , code (links to a post explaining how to get the code I based me demos on) Office Development with VSTO  and Office Open XML Format If you are interested in other content, I have a list of recorded webcasts in My Recorded Webcasts list.  There is a session similar to Joel's LINQ...

Free training on .NET 3.5 SP1

I just came across this update to the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit from Jonathan Carter .  If you've seen my ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview webcast and are looking for the code, then you will want to download the kit.  I used the kit as the starting point for my demos.  I do a few things differently here and there, but most of it is because I didn't have time to show everything in 90 minutes.  As far as I can tell, everything that was in the extensions preview is in 3.5 SP1 except ASP.NET MVC which will be shipped separately.  The training kit offers a great way to get your hands dirty with the new stuff in 3.5 SP1.  Go get it !  Oh yea, I have also updated the deck from my webcast to reflect...

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 "SP1" Beta

VS2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 offer a ton of customer value from Linq to Ajax and much more.  The service pack we have been working on to round out this release adds even more new value in addition to fixing a 100s of customer reported bugs!  All of it is driven by customer asks and I am excited about how we have begun to embrace a model of providing great customer value on a very regular cadence.  Omar Khan and I recently recorded a DotNetRocks episode where we talked about all these great things.  I thought it would be fun to list just a few of my personal favorite new features in this SP...   What is your favorite one?    For Web Developers: - ASP.NET Dynamic Data makes building data driven web applications...

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Overview of the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Sorry about the demo hiccups / going over.  As I mentioned in the beginning, I had a hard time trying to get everything I wanted to cover into 90 minutes.  As you can see, there's quite a bit in the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions.  Normally, I make all of my code demos available for download.  However, I used a newer build for my demos that's not publicly available.  Once we release the new bits, I will make my code available.  For now, you can download my ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions deck here . UPDATE: I just created a list of links on my Windows Live Space called ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions .  This list has links to all the relevant landing pages & forums for the various technologies...

WEBCAST: Overview of the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a new release that provides new functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET in 2008. This release delivers a set of new features that target: Enabling High Productivity Data Scenarios - including MVC, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and Dynamic Data Supporting Test Driven Development - including a powerful and extensible MVC framework Creating the best server for Rich Clients - including Ajax history support and Silverlight controls for ASP.NET We will take a lap around all the great capabilities packed into this upcoming release including ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX, ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, and Silverlight Controls for ASP.NET. When Wednesday...

FOLLOW UP: Public Sector Developer Conference (Washington, DC)

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here are the links to the decks and code for the sessions.  I don't have the content from the LINQ session yet, but will update this post when I get it.  However, I did promise to have a post up this morning. The Benefits of Visual Studio Team System to Your Organization - deck What's New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow (WF) in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5 - deck , code Data Access with Language Integrated Query Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 - deck , code If you are interested in some additional sessions on LINQ & Workflow Services, I have a list of recorded webcasts in My Recorded Webcasts list...