ASP.NET Whidbey Overview

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ASP.NETWhidbey Overview
Scalable Development, Inc. Building systems today
that perform tomorrow.

• Wallace B. McClure
• Scalable Development, Inc.

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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.

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EVERYTHING IS BETA

• Your mileage may vary..
• Anything may change between now and shipment.

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.NET Experiences

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

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Schedule

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

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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.

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ASP.NET

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

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Web Site Admin Tool

• Graphical mechanism to manage some basic site
  features.
• Providers.
• Users.
• Roles.
• Security.
• Lets take a look.

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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.

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Data Source Controls

• ASP lots of code, while loop, MoveNext.
• ASP.NET 1.x Much simpler.
• SqlDataSource.
• AccessDataSource.
• XmlDataSource.
• Example.

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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.

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New Controls

• 50 new controls.
• GridView (Super Datagrid).
• Multi-View / View.
• SiteMapPath (aka. Bread-crumb control).
• Login.
• Example(s).

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Personalization

• ASP ASP.NET 1.x You do it.
• SqlExpress and Access support. Use SqlExpress.
• How to setup Web.config
• ltprofilegt element.
• ltpropertiesgt element.
• ltprovidersgt element.
• Anonymous.
• Accessing the values.
• Example.

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Web Parts

• ContentWebPart Web Control.
• User Control.
• Custom Control that inherits from
  System.Web.UI.WebPart.
• Example.

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Caching Dependency

• ASP You do it.
• ASP.NET 1.x File system and other cached
  objects.
• SqlCacheDependency
• Sql 7, Sql2k.
• Sql 2k5 Yukon.

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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.

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ADO.NET

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

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BCL in Whidbey

• Threading.
• Serial port.
• Generics.
• Console Applications.

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C in Whidbey

• Generics.
• Partial types.
• Anonymous methods.
• Iterators.

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Special Thanks

• Scott Watermasysk.
• J. Ambrose Little.
• Dave Sussman.

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Wow, was that a lot.
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that perform tomorrow.

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