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...
I had a great time in my Mix session today... there was great buzz in the room. Silverlight download ASP.NET Futures download Live demo site Here are a few highlights... I started off talking about the importance of having your site "Look Great and Feel Great". In the demo for this section, I showed off I Expression Media Encoder . What is really cool is that Expression also outputs the brand new asp:Media control . This is so cool because it handles all the issues of using Silverlight in the different browsers with NO client side javascript and fully use the power of the server (databinding, etc). Check out the new ASP.NET Futures release to get these bits. The next principle I talked about was "Uninterrupted Flow". The goal here is to make...
What percentage of web applications would you say fall into the category of glorified View-Add-Update-Delete operations over a database? That is, you have data stored in a database and you want to expose a web front to look at the data in interesting ways (master details, etc) and add/update/delete the content.. Seems like there is tons of information stored in relational database that can make generating those types of web applications MUCH easier. That is what we have done with the BLinq project...This is effectively a preview of some work we are considering for the next release of the free Visual Web Developer tool in Orcas. It leverages the new LINQ support to get the OR-Mapping then does some very cool page generation stuff. BTW, that is...