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Subject: UK MSDN Flash Newsletter 12 August 2009: ASP.NET 4.0 Web Forms
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:30:07 -0700
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12 August 2009
Editor's Intro
July turned out to be a busy month for Microsoft. On July 22 we released
Windows 7 to manufacturing and in the UK we launched Silverlight 3 and
Expression 3 on the same day with the support of our partners and
customers (watch the interviews). How you get your hands on Windows 7 is
covered in great detail on the Windows team blog but if you are an MSDN
Premium subscriber then you were given access to the downloads on August
6. Microsoft Press will be releasing Introducing Windows 7 for
Developers later this year but in the meantime there is the excellent
Windows 7 for Developers blog. Silverlight 3 was released a little
earlier in July and our very own Mike Taulty has published some great
screencasts on the Silverlight site to get you started. Which leaves us
with Expression. Expression Studio 3 is a major release which include an
exciting new tool. SketchFlow provides a quick way to explore, iterate
and prototype user interface scenarios, allowing you to evolve your
concepts from a series of rough ideas into a working prototype. A good
place to start is the recording of the Sketchflow and Blend 3 session
from MIX earlier in the year. One final good bit of news about
Expression is that we have expanded availability of the full Expression
Studio to all MSDN Premium subscribers.
The variety of links in Fresh Discoveries is captured rather nicely by
these two extremes Tool Shed: Episode #4 (Be prepared!) and Building
Testable ASP.NET MVC Applications. However my personal favourite is the
brand new development platform Kodu ... for your children on their Xbox
360!
The Technical Article is from my colleague Mike Ormond and looks at what
we can expect from ASP.NET 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 and the Poll is
something a little different. You have to sit a tiny test and share your
score - check out "How did your software team score in the Joel Test?"
Happy reading.
Eric
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MSDN eBook "The Best Technical Articles of 2008" (pdf or online)
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Fresh Discoveries
Tip
Visual Studio Virtual Space (1min)
Enable Virtual Space, then point, click and type. Very nice.
Book
Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, 2nd Edition
By The Microsoft Dynamics AX Team (Receive 40% off via MSDN Flash).
Website
Fancy developing programs with an Xbox 360 controller?
Check out Kodu Game Lab, now available on Xbox 360.
Screencast
SQL Server 2008 Data Warehouse features from principal program manager
Lots of great screencasts on DW topics with SQL Server 2008.
Article
Summary of SQL Data Services
Note that SQL Data Services has been renamed to SQL Azure Database.
Webcast
ARCast.TV with Scott Hanselman on scaling websites with caching (15mins)
Microsoft Velocity is ... sort of like memcached but better.
Webcast
Post-Event Resources for Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2009
Powerpoints and videos for the many great sessions from earlier this year.
Website
Silverlight 3 released
Get started with Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3.
Article
Building Testable ASP.NET MVC Applications
Great introduction to testing with a little help from xUnit, Ninject and Moq.
Competition
Worldwide contest recognising & rewarding applications for Windows 7
Submit your innovative applications to compete for up to $17,777 in prizes.
Blog
Are you a UK company selling applications that work great on Windows 7?
Then tell us about your application and experiences getting it to work on
Windows 7.
Blog
Using Threat Models in Software Development
We use threat models not to find threats but to find and implement
countermeasures.
Article
Composite Web Apps with Prism
Taking Silverlight development up a gear using the work of the Prism project.
Article
EF v2 and Data Access Architecture Best Practices
Note that EF v2 has been renamed to EF v4 :-)
Article
Editing Data in an Excel 2007 Open XML File with VBA
Explore different ways to find, read and write XML data in an Excel 2007 file.
Webcast
Windows Azure Storage Overview (7mins)
One of 6 webcasts on Azure created using some great animation.
Webcast
Tool Shed: Episode #4 - It's All About The Tools (89mins)
Something very different. Filmed in front of a live studio audience!
Article
Securing Application Pages in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Easy approaches to validate page requests and user permissions.
Webcast
Windows 7 on Channel 9
Watch videos about using Windows 7 & learn about the enhancements.
UK User Groups
UK SOA/BPM User Group
SBUG is a UK wide user group of professionals who are interested in
concepts and technologies around SOA/BPM in the Microsoft space. We
predominantly are interested in connected technologies such as BizTalk,
Dublin, WCF, Oslo, Azure, .net Services. We meet quarterly often in
Central London and also online using Live Meeting.
Register Now to Avoid Disappointment
12 August, Gloucester: GL.Net - Workflow Foundation 4 with John
McLoughlin
13 August, Woking: Dev Evening #10 - MVC & Virtualisation
17 August, Hereford: NxtGenUG - Alex Homer on Dependency Inversion
Principle
17 August, Coventry: NxtGenUG - Sebastien Lambla on MVC
18 August, Birmingham: NxtGenUG - Richard Fennell on testing Sharepoint
18 August, Cambridge: NxtGenUG - Richard Costall on Silverlight 3
19 August, London: Vista Squad - PRISM, .Net RIA Services and When Agile
goes bad
19 August, Manchester: NxtGenUG -Richard Fennell on testing Sharepoint
20 August, Southampton: NxtGenUG - Ben Hall on Testing ASP.NET
Applications
7 - 9 September, London: Free Microsoft Team Foundation Server Training
(Complete Application Form)
8 September, Glasgow: Scottish Developers UG - Credit Crunch Code - Time
to Pay Back the Technical Debt
10-11 September, London: Skills Matter - Gojko Adzic's TDD.NET in
Practice Workshop (?1095)
15 September, Gloucester: GL.NET - Refactoring and design patterns with
Gary Short
16 September, Bristol: VBUG - Introduction to Windows Presentation
Foundation by David Ringsell
Feature Article
ASP.NET 4.0 Web Forms
Almost 10 years on and ASP.NET Web Forms is established as a mature web
application framework, enjoying all the benefits of the .NET Framework,
your choice of programming language and a rich ecosystem of 3rd party
controls and frameworks (e.g. MonoRail and Spring.NET). The next
releases of Visual Studio (2010) and ASP.NET (4.0) include a host of new
features and enhancements. I'd like to tell you about a few of the
changes targeted at Web Forms developers.
Some enhancements will be no surprise to many of you; they've either
been on the wish list or represent a natural evolution of ASP.NET.
Giving developers control over generated Client IDs for example is a
welcome change. As is making it simple to disable ViewState when it's
not required and enabling it only where needed. And the trend for
cleaner generated markup continues. A good example in this release is
the table-less rendering mode available for controls such as FormView.
In Visual Studio 2010, web developers at last get "code snippets"
functionality for HTML, ASP.NET and Javascript as well as improved
Javascript intellisense. The intellisense engine is faster and smarter
to work better with 3rd party frameworks (the jQuery library will ship
"in the box" with ASP.NET 4.0). For deployment, Visual Studio 2010
integrates with MSDeploy to enable the creation of web packages
comprising the application, associated metadata, IIS settings,
certificates and even SQL Server schema and data while web.config
transforms allow easy deployment of unique settings for each
configuration (e.g. different connection strings for debug, staging,
release).
There are changes for caching, particularly with respect to
extensibility; making it easy to plug-in different providers for object
and output caching. And SessionState gets a compression option for out
of process scenarios where the network may be a bottleneck.
If you've used ASP.NET MVC you'll be familiar with the powerful new
routing capabilities introduced in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. ASP.NET 4.0
introduces those same routing capabilities to Web Forms applications
making it possible to harness the same flexibility and friendly URL
structure. New expressions have also been added for working with routes
and route data declaratively.
Finally, ASP.NET AJAX takes a quantum leap, introducing simple yet
powerful client-side templates and data binding allowing you to easily
create data-driven UI on the client. Templates even support embedded
code and expressions allowing you to do conditional rendering or modify
the UI on the fly. The new DataView client control can bind to
JavaScript objects or arrays and even has the smarts to call services to
fetch its data. There's also support for change tracking and ADO.NET
data services as well as an implementation of the observer pattern for
JavaScript.
All this new functionality in ASP.NET AJAX has led to an increase in the
size of the supporting library files. To counteract this, the library
has been re-factored into more than a dozen separate components. You're
now able to specify only the AJAX library files necessary to support the
specific features you're using on the page.
If you want to know more, why not take a look at the whitepaper or the
documentation on MSDN or download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and have a
play.
Mike Ormond
Read Mike's blog
Developer Evangelist
Flash Poll Question
Question of the fortnight
How did your software team score in the Joel Test?
1: Perfect 12. We rock!
2: Very good 10 or 11. Respect!
3: Respectable 7, 8 or 9
4: Disappointing 4, 5 or 6
5: Disastrous 1, 2 or 3
6: 0. Enough said
7: The Joel Test is highly irresponsible and sloppy
To take part in this week's poll question please visit my blog to submit
your answer.
Results from last poll:
Which aspect of your job do you enjoy the most?
31% Solving problems
21% All of the above
19% Learning new technology
8% Writing code
7% Starting a new project
4% Helping colleagues
3% Finishing a project
3% Engaging with customers
2% Working in a team
2% Other
On the Horizon
26-30 October, London: DevelopMentor: Guerrilla .NET (?2995 per person
plus VAT)
9-13 November, Berlin: Microsoft - TechEd Europe 2009 (Current
discounted price at 1895 Euros)
17-19 November, Los Angeles: Microsoft- PDC (Register by Sept 15 & save
$500)
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