Deep Dives web platform

2 days ago, I went to a Deep Dives about Asp.Net 2.0. Everyone of my team has agreed to call it 'DDO' (Drag and Drop Oriented). It have been a real pain to listen it until the end. Maybe we got 10 minutes of code, that is when the presentator's computer wasn't freezing because he was running Virtual Pc on it (why didn't he shuts it down for the presentation). Well, it's not his fault, the one who was supposed to do it, was too late because of his plane, and it was not in English but in French because of that. We get some great gifts to compensate. A book to introduce Asp.net 2.0 and a backpack.

So, here is a resume :

The first 3 hours, the presentator talked about Master Page, Theme and Skin. Really interesting in the fact that everything will be so easy in the futur. Just drag your theme into a specified folder, and modify Web.Config to get it activated on the run. Oh and some really interesting stuff in the Code (or app_code later) directory. Just drag a code file in here to get it compiled and ready to run in the project. Also we can now have multiple programming languages on the same project. And there is no more vbproj or csproj file on a Web Site project. A project will be a directory. We did not talk about Edit and Continue.

For the next hour, we talked about Data Acess, MemberShip, IdeaBlade, WebPart, SharePoint. This was so much condensated that we didn't learn a lot, but enough to get a general idea about it. There is now a DataSourceObject object that is supposed to get better separated layer in the tiered application. MemberShip will really be a joke from now on. No more login, managing user, role, personal information, etc.. Everything is now integrated and can be accessed via WebAdmin.axd (maybe wrong). We have also taked a look at Web Part, who really simplified dynamic Web Page. The user will only see what he wants to see and can reorganize everything.

Now for Idea Blade, we do not had the time to look at it, but I have done some research on my own. For what I have seen in the demo, it's an advanced ORM, to link with database, and create our Data Acess Layer. I will take a look at it, in the next few days.