ASP.NET Whidbey Overview Wallace B. McClure Scalable Development, Inc. Scalable Development, Inc. Building systems today that perform tomorrow.

ASP.NETWhidbey Overview

Wallace B. McClure

Scalable Development, Inc.

Scalable Development, Inc.Building systems today that perform tomorrow.

New Book

“Professional ADO.NET Version 2.0” by Wrox.

It will make a great 2005 present. Plan on buying several copies for gifts

for friends and loved ones.

EVERYTHING IS BETA

Your mileage may vary..

Anything may change between now and shipment.

.NET Experiences

PDC 2000 Build (July, 2000).Book work.Visual Studio Betas.Sql Server Betas.Production applications.

Schedule

Tools. ASP.NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET. ADO.NET. BCL Framework. C#.

Tools SDK. Express Family.

Visual Web Developer. Visual Basic. C#. C++. J#. Sql Express.

VS.NET. Sql Server 2005 aka Yukon. ASP.NET Admin Tool.

ASP.NET

ASP.NET Web Site Admin Tool. Master Pages. Data Source Controls. Themes & Skins. New Controls. Personalization. Web Parts. Caching. Other new features.

Web Site Admin Tool

Graphical mechanism to manage some basic site features.

Providers.Users.Roles.Security.Let’s take a look.

Master Pages

ASP.NET 1.x lacks full support. Page Templates. Full Support in the IDE. What do we need?

MasterPageFile directive. ContentPlaceHolder control. Content control.

Example.

Data Source Controls

ASP: lots of code, while loop, MoveNext.

ASP.NET 1.x: Much simpler. SqlDataSource. AccessDataSource. XmlDataSource. Example.

Themes & Skins

ASP.NET 1.x: Attributes that were applied individually.

What do we need? Page's Theme directive. Web.Config Way to add them.

Themes directory. Subdirectory below with a Theme name. .Skin file.

Example.

New Controls

50 new controls. GridView (Super Datagrid). Multi-View / View. SiteMapPath (aka. Bread-crumb

control). Login. Example(s).

Personalization

ASP & ASP.NET 1.x: You do it. SqlExpress and Access support.

Use SqlExpress. How to setup Web.config:

<profile> element. <properties> element. <providers> element. Anonymous. Accessing the values.

Example.

Web Parts

ContentWebPart Web Control. User Control. Custom Control that inherits from

System.Web.UI.WebPart. Example.

Caching & Dependency

ASP: You do it. ASP.NET 1.x: File system and

other cached objects. SqlCacheDependency

Sql 7, Sql2k. Sql 2k5 “Yukon”.

Other New Features

Dynamic compile w/ Code & Resources directories.

Precompile and Deploy without source using aspnet_compiler.

Code-beside. Lightweight postback aka. Client Callback

Manager. Validation Groups. Cross-page posts.

ADO.NET

DataSource controls. Scrollable cursors. CLR objects with Sql Server 2005. Asynchronous commands. Example. – Check Weblog for more

info.

BCL in Whidbey

Threading. Serial port. Generics. Console Applications.

C# in Whidbey

Generics. Partial types. Anonymous methods. Iterators.

Special Thanks

Scott Watermasysk. J. Ambrose Little. Dave Sussman.

Wow, was that a lot.

Questions?

Scalable Development, [email protected]://weblogs.asp.net/wallym

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