Hannes Preishuber

10 arguments why to start a webproject the asp.net 2.0 way

I had two discussions in the newsgroup about the general design of web sites. The first idea of a poster was to build one default.aspx and load dynamicly everthing from usercontrols. The second is to have a webpage with following content

<%@ Page .... Codebehind .... %>
<%=pageHTML %>

The content comes from sql database.

My opinion is both is complete.... nonsense. ( i would like to say sh...) Dont do this.!

My rule is: every task is a aspx page

A lot of ( also experienced) developers do not trust Microsoft in this way and thing must build their own library ect. I think do it like Microsoft suggest.

From my experience i have created 10 arguments

1. Google ( and other) can not crawle in perfect matter (Meta Tags, Header, URLs, Content in general)
2. no visual and declarative edit possible
3. more work to step into the project for 3rd party
4. slower rendering
5. more errors in development
6. No caching support or bader caching
7. Layout problems
8. No open & edit with Frontpage
9. higher development costs
10. if you have two ways, take the easier one

I am not completly against usercontrols. If you build Webparts, Menus, function groups it make sense. But not as core concept for building a web page.

Frank Eller joins ppedv AG

If you are not from DACH (Germany Austria Switzerland) you will not know Frank Eller. Frank was several years MVP for C#, is speaker and author (amazon says 9 books). Frank joins now ppedv ag.

I am very happy that he support our team and will teach open classes. The second part of his job will be announced in a few month.

Whidbey Development process from outside: no changes accepted

This is no critic, its only a story, which is true and let you learn a little bit about the post Beta 2 period.

I used the Copy Web function from Visual Studio 2005 to copy a web project. A very usefull function shows all new/changed files which should be copied. This is displayed in a typical Windows List. A typical windows list can sort on clicking the table header.

This would be very usefull cause the changed entrys in the list are not sorted. I must go through the list and mark every single item with a click. Would be also usefull to order by date or name.

I reported this as bug

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=75d4202d-b487-4c38-9bf2-9efcfdffe294

I think a list without this function is bug and i would never give a customer a project with a missing function like that. I expect the implementaion of that will take 2 hours.

The answere from the team

First ASP.NET 2.0 B2 Book

i am proud and happy to announce the worldwide first ASP.NET 2.0 book which is based on Beta 2 build. Shipping date ist 18 may.

ASP.NET 2.0 Crashkurs. Beta 2 Edition, m. 1 DVD-ROM
von Hannes Preishuber, MS Press

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3860635328/qid=1116322679/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/302-0432076-0017626

only sad thing, its only available in german. At this point i d like also announce the 2nd B2 book, which is from my .net fellow Holger

Microsoft .NET 2.0 Crashkurs. Beta 2 Edition, m. 1 DVD-ROM
von Holger Schwichtenberg

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/386063531X/ref=pd_sims_dp__3/302-0432076-0017626

The ASP Days are over

my company ppedv ag is one of the market leader in germany for developer trainings. We started 8 years ago and one of my first classes was Active Server Pages. 5 Years ago we started the german ASP konferenz. We have still the classic ASP training in programm and you will not believe, we still sell ASP courses.

But i guess now definitly the ASP days are over and we will switch to ASP.NET 2.0. August the 16th 2005 is definitly the last open class we make!