Newest features in ASP.Net and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers

A Lap Around the Newest features in ASP.Net and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers
Instructed by: Simon Calvert and Vishal Joshi of Microsoft


Website: http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/

VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5
• Web Applications versus Websites and Multi-targeting
o Website – server-side compilation
o Web Application – flavor of class library proect and added web features (more control of assembly model)
o Can select the framework you want to used when creating a new project (2.0, 3.0 or 3.5) to allow multi-targeting.
o Master Pages and Nested Master Pages – A Master Page is a template for one page versus a Nested Master Page which inherits from and existing generic master page
o Split View – design and source can now be in the same page and have instant synching between the two so that you can make a change in one and it is reflected in the other. It can be setup either vertically or horizontally according to your preference.
• Design surface and CSS
o There have been a number of CSS improvements—there are now 3 command windows
o Managed styles
o Circled blue, green and red dots to indicate which styles are actually being used in your page
o CSS Properties – gives you a summary so that you can see only what is being used.
o New styles creator interface that take styles done on a page and automatically put them in the CSS
• Listview server control --Gives you control over layout by inserting a Layout Template and inserting a Place Holder control inside it. It can link to a LINQ datasource. Note: The image is linked to the server using a LINQ Datasource
• AJAX
o ScriptManager with Script References inside of it. You can right click on the textbox to auto add and extender. Pretty cool.




• Javascript Intellisense enhancements
The following gets automatically created and intellisense in javascript starts working and recognizes the variables you add. It also auto-formats the script for you.

Function pageLoad(){

Var e = document.

}

Note: “/// -- can condense references to speed up page

• Dynamic Data – can get data driven website up and running rapidly. It can inspect meta data and validate it.



VS2008 SP1 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 (Beta)
• Javascript Formatting and 3rd Party frameworks
• ASP.Net dynamic data
• ASP.Net AJAX enhancements

Out of Band Previews (OOBs)
• ASP.Net MVC Preview 3 (Model View Controller)
• VS Web Development Projects