Yesterday I attended the session on ASP.NET 4.0 & VS 2010 @ Microsoft Singapore office. The session was good..
They are conducting this kind of session every month.
Pls find few useful links:
http://geeksengaged.com/default.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-gb/products/2010/default.mspx
The session mainly highlighted features in ASP.NET 4.0/AJAX, MVC, Dynamic Data website using scaffolding and web deployment
VS2010:
1. CSS 2.1 support - ACID1 tested designer http://acidtests.googletoad.com/
2. HTML snippets - just by typing "tb" in html view, created asp.net textbox server control with predefined template
3. Extensive support for Jquery and javascript
4. XML documentation comments work everywhere including javascript
ASP.NET AJAX 4.0:
1. View State:
a. Disable on Page, enable on specific controls
b. disable on control and enable on child controls
c. Gridview control works without view state
2. URL routing for webforms
3. Getting Client ID for controls will be more easier.
4. Templates and Databinding:
Client side capabilities are enhanced a lot -
--WCF service which is hosted in the same domain can be called from your application client side using javascript
--data validation, format and rendering all can be controlled using simple template at client side and very fast!
MVC:
Full support for MVC - already available for download to use with ASP.NET 3.5
--Asynchronous controllers
--Sub controllers and views
--Declarative controls
Dynamic Data Scaffolding;
Data enables you to create a data-driven Web site with minimal or no additional code. An important feature of Dynamic Data is the scaffolding mechanism. When the scaffolding mechanism is enabled in a Dynamic Data Web site, ASP.NET analyzes your data model and generate Web pages dynamically for each table. These auto-generated Web pages provide display, insert, delete, and edit capabilities for each table.
For more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc488469.aspx
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/12/aspnet-35-extensions-dec2007ctp;jsessionid=3140BCDF79F935609EEE45A8BC84DA24
--Declarative validation with datamodel
--Support for custom field templates
Web package deployment / Publishing:
Easy to package and deploy web apps in QA/Staging/Production. Commandline deployment.
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Few downloads:
1. ASP.NET MVC 1.0 - provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=53289097-73ce-43bf-b6a6-35e00103cb4b#filelist
2. Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) -
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=922b4655-93d0-4476-bda4-94cf5f8d4814
3. Creating a New ASP.NET Dynamic Data Web Site Using Scaffolding
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=77f86554-cb51-4392-9e24-c7c28075d1b1
Thanks & regards,
KannappaN Venkatachalam
Singapore
