WPF Unleashed: Building Application with Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Dave Bost Developer Evangelist http://davebost.com/blog

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What’s being delivered with Service Pack 1

What’s being improved in Service Pack 1

How you can use it to build applications

.NET Framework Application development

Visual Studio 2008

Object-Relational Mapping

ASP.NET

Level 100

New features

.NET 3.5 Additions

Visual Studio Support

Demos!

Enhancements

Framework Improvements

Visual Studio IDE

ADO.NET Entity Framework

ASP.NET Dynamic Data

ADO.NET Data Services

ASP.NET Routing

Entity Data Model

Entity Framework

Visual Studio Designer Support

Maps concepts to physical store

Conceptual Schema Definition

Storage Schema Definition

Mapping Specification

Decouples your DB schema from your application model

Provides flexibility

Platform-independent

Entity Framework

Object Services

Entity Client

EntitySQL

Linq-to-Entities

Visual Studio Designer Support

Entity Data Model Wizard

Simplifies creation of mapping files

Data Model Design Surface

Simplifies creation of entities and relationships

Hides the complexity of the mapping files

Created an Entity Data Model from an existing database schema

Explored the ways to customize the model

Wrote a client application that uses the model to access data using Linq-to-Entities

Data-driven web application scaffolding

Based on top of object model

New Visual Studio ASP.NET project types

Entity Data Model

Linq-to-SQL

Created a Dynamic Data Web application

Explored customization areas

Connected it to our existing model

Exposes data “feeds”

Presents a Web-based object model

Powerful, but secure

Extensible

Implemented using ATOM

“ Tables” == feeds

“ Rows” == entities

RESTful protocol

Simple XML

URI points to resource

Opt-in exposure

Provides hooks for queries and operations

Supports many types of client access

Added a Data Service to our Web Application

Refactored our user interface to work over the Web

Map your application’s URL entry points to route handlers

Generate URLs based off your defined route table

Can be leveraged by ASP.NET…

Dynamic Data

MVC

WebForms

Explored how to customize site layout using routes

Added new routes to our Web Application

New features

.NET 3.5 Additions

Visual Studio Support

Demos!

Enhancements

Framework Improvements

Visual Studio IDE

ASP.NET AJAX

WCF

WPF

WinForms

History

Creates custom history points

Server & client-side

Enable back/forward browser buttons

Allow users to bookmark state

Script combining

Combine multiple JavaScript files into one

Reduces # of requests and bandwidth

Scalability improvements

DataContractSerializer improvements

APP support added to the syndication library

Enhanced UriTemplate syntax

Compoud segments ({filename}.{ext})

Default values (/Products/{id=23})

Performance improvements

Up to 40% coldstart improvement!

Shader effects

Improved Databinding

Direct3D Interop

Images

Textures

Five New controls

Vector Shapes

Line

Rectangle

Oval

PrintForm

DataRepeater

Entity Data Model designer

JavaScript formatting and code preferences

ASP Intellisense/Debugging

.NET Framework Client Profile

26mb download

SQL Server 2008

Improved JavaScript Intellisense

jQuery

Prototype

Scriptaculous

Web designer performance improvements

WCF refactoring support (svc/config files)

ASP.NET MVC

Silverlight 2

ASP.NET Silverlight controls

Great new features in SP1 make application development easier

Many existing features are improved

More coming soon!

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