Introducing Dynamic Data
Demos
Roadmap
Feedback and Q&A

Easily create powerful data-driven web apps
Get a running app in under a minute!
Unleash the power of the schema
Customizable and reusable

Create your model
Create ASP.NET pages
Add data controls and data source controls
Add validation logic in the page
Issues:
Fair bit of work to get started
Logic lives in the wrong place
Ignores valuable schema information
Reuse and customization is difficult

Create your model
Instantly get a fully functional app!
Customize the app piece by piece:
Model
Fields
Pages
Routes

Metadata on model drives the behavior
Default metadata inferred from schema
Data types and relationships
Required fields, string length, …
Add additional metadata
Validation
Field labels and descriptions
Partial methods

Fields are rendered using templates
Selected based on field data type
Handle rendering, data binding and validation
Template selection can be overridden
Simple ascx files that can easily be reused
across projects

Page templates
Affect shared behavior across tables
Custom pages for individual tables
Choose the column set
Customize the rendering

Determines how external URLs map to
application pages
New ASP.NET feature
Also used by ASP.NET MVC

Initial release targets web forms
Later release will include MVC support
Same concepts apply
Model metadata
Page templates
Field templates

Try the 3.5 Extensions Preview today
New build coming up in a few weeks
Forum: http://forums.asp.net/1145.aspx
Blogs:
http://blogs.msdn.com/davidebb/
http://blogs.msdn.com/scothu/
http://blogs.msdn.com/marcinon/

For additional Q&A, go to Open Space area
in the Sandbox

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