1. THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE
Building A Better User Experience with
jQuery and WCF
Jeff Hewitt
Credera
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About the Speaker
Jeff Hewitt
Architect with Credera
jhewitt@credera.com
http://blogs.credera.com
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Credera is a Business and Technology Consulting Firm that Focuses on Leveraging Proven
Technologies to Enable our Clients Business Strategy
 Our Company  Our People
– Full-service business and technology – Credera’s professionals possess a unique
consulting firm combination of deep technical expertise with
extensive business backgrounds
– Provide business and technology solutions
that offer measurable value to our clients – Backgrounds include business, technology, and
strategy management consulting with some of the
– Deliver value by leveraging our people’s most well-known and respected consulting firms
accumulated industry and management in the world
experience with their deep technical
expertise – Have served many influential corporations in a
variety of industries over the past 20 years
– Established in 1999
– Offices in Dallas, Austin, Denver
 Sample Clients
 Our Services
– Management Consulting
– Technology Solutions
– Business Intelligence
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Agenda
 jQuery – A Brief Introduction
 WCF – A Brief Introduction
 Demonstrations
– Feature overview demonstration
– Complex demonstration with WCF
 Review
 Links and Resources
 Question & Answer
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jQuery – A Brief Introduction
 Designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML
 Provides capabilities for developers to create plug-ins on top of JavaScript library
 Most popular JavaScript library in use today
 Features include
– DOM element selection
– DOM traversal and modification
– Events
– CSS manipulation
– Effects and animations
– AJAX
– Extensibility
– Utilities
From wikipedia.org - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery
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jQuery – A Brief Introduction (continued…)
 jQuery Functions
 Usage styles
– Factory Method
– Utility Methods
 AJAX
From wikipedia.org - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery
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WCF – A Brief Introduction
 WCF is a framework for building service-oriented applications
 Used in several high transaction, high availability Microsoft platforms already
 Features include
– Service orientation
– Multiple message patterns
– Service metadata
– Security
– Multiple transports and encodings
– Reliable message queues / durable messages
– Transactions
– AJAX & REST support
– Extensibility
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WCF – A Brief Introduction (continued…)
From Andrew Tokeley – http://www.andrewtokeley.com
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Demo
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Review
 jQuery – A Brief Introduction
 WCF – A Brief Introduction
 Demonstrations
– Feature overview demonstration
– Full demonstration with WCF and reusable framework
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Links and Resources
http://blogs.credera.com
 Demo application download
 Getting started with jQuery and WCF resources
 Continued learning resources
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Q&A
Thank you for attending!
Contact Information:
Jeff Hewitt
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13. THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE
Building A Better User Experience with
jQuery and WCF
Jeff Hewitt
Credera
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