Contents tagged with ASP.NET 2.0
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Microsoft Web Platform
With the purpose of helping the Web developers Microsoft launched a new site called, Microsoft Web Platform that contains several elements with the goal of simplifying the life of those developers, with some of the contents being:
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ASP.NET MVC Beta version Released
Following the ASP.NET development this new MVC Framework is important because in some cases will be the right choice for the development process. The first releases had problems regarding AJAX integration and also poor set of controls, when compared to the ASP.NET Web Forms version, but with this version a lot has changed, and things like:
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Federated Security Framework
One of the great issues that exist when developing solutions is the Security, and when we talk about SaaS or S+S the issue becomes a lot more complicated and so we have to use Federated Identity, and there are several ways to do this and as Frederik Chong from Microsoft and Dwayne Taylor from RDA wrote on their article Federated Identity: Scenarios, Architecture and Implementation this is not a easy issue to solve and so they show some ways that can be used, and although this is a 2006 article, it's still very interesting to read about the issues, but now the Federated Security Team is developing a framework for Federated Identity with the codename "Zermatt" that's present on the Microsoft Connect Services site, and this already have a public beta that can be downloaded and used.
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ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap
Being ASP.NET AJAX a very important part of ASP.NET one thing that would help is knowing what and when will be delivered and so a Roadmap is a must-have, and Microsoft delivered precisely that in order for us to get to know what's being done and have some notion about when it will be delivered, and I think there's some great stuff there like AJAX in ASP.NET MVC, Interoperability, Accessibility and even support for OpenAJAX-compliant XML metafiles, never forgetting that the Javascript support in Visual Studio must evolve also. So if you want to have detailed information about this subject check here for the complete document with all the explanation regarding this Roadmap.
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Choices to Develop ASP.NET Applications
There are several ways to develop ASP.NET, and this has been growing and it tends to continue to grow in order to chose the best approach to the problem in hand, and so I decided to write a little bit about this subject.
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Silverlight 2 Beta 2
The Beta 2 of Silverlight 2.0 is already available in order for us to develop using this version of Silverlight that now as some more new stuff in terms of controls, skining, among others that we will analyze during our next posts. This version is available for both Windows and Mac because we continue and will always continue to talk about a technology that is Cross-Platform and Cross-Browser.