Headed off to DevConnections
I'm getting ready to meet the 5,000 of you attending DevConnections next week. WOOOOOOW
In spite of what I did for the largest part of the past months, I won't be presenting about ASP.NET AJAX at the show. And given the breaking changes with Beta 1, that is a big relief for me :-)
Instead, I'll be presenting about patterns for an effective, professional and extensible middle-tier focusing on ASP.NET presentation layers and w/o SQL Server. In particular, I invite you to take a look at the following CodePlex project: Northwind Starter Kit.
It shows a DAL based on industry standard enterprise design patterns and the Northwind database. Inside of the download, you also find a sample presentation layer for WinForms and WPF using the Model-View-Presenter approach. Something that ASP.NET developers should start getting familiar with as soon as possible.
At DevConnections, I'll also have a half-day seminar the Monday (November 6) on rich custom ASP.NET controls developed without ASP.NET AJAX. Benign script injection, hidden fields, and little known server-side control interfaces are the bread and butter of the session. Come and see.