PDC day one - ASP.NET and SDS

2008-10-27 @ 22:49#

i spent the afternoon in a session on ASP.NET 4.0 and some MVC. gotta say, lots on the horizon for ASP.NET 4.0. it looks a bit confusing from the outside looking in. bascially, there are some bits that were released *after* VS2008 (AJAX.NET, MVC, Dynamic Data, etc.) that are currently hosted on codeplex. *some* of this will be rolled into ASP.NET 4.0 (AJAX for sure). some will remain outside. and there's some stuff that will be added that is not on codeplex yet.

wow.

anyway, key 'themes' for the next release:

  • more standards-compliance
  • emphasis on building line-of-business solutions
  • increased use of 'patterns-based' features like MVC and TDD
  • continued improvements in the ASP.NET core

i also got to play w/ the SQL Data Services (SDS alias SSDS) in the Labs area and that was nice. SDs now supports JOIN, ORDERBY, and TAKE (top n). there are also some additional metrics/metadata available. i saw the first example of Astoria talking to SDS - nice. looks like the SOAP interface will now support access control, but REST is left out of that scenario. gotta give them team a hard time on that one!

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