David Hayden [MVP C#]

The Orlando Code Camp was this past Saturday and was well worth the 4 hour round trip from Sarasota to both present and attend some really cool sessions on .NET Development. The location was awesome, the event was perfectly organized, and the florida developer community is always cool!

I gave two presentations: Introduction to the Web Client Software Factory v2.0 and SQL Server Data Access Tips and Techniques. Thanks to all who attended and for the positive feedback on the presentations.

Introduction to the Web Client Software Factory v2.0

This presentation was similar to the presentation I gave at the Day of Patterns & Practices Event in Tampa, Florida, but updated to reflect Visual Studio 2008 and the new ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2. The presentation focused on the following items:

• Visual Studio 2008 WCSF Guidance Package Walk-Thru.
• Using the 3 new AJAX Guidance Bundles: AutoComplete Guidance Bundle, Validation Guidance Bundle, and Search Guidance Bundle.
• Adding the AJAX Guidance Bundles into the ASP.NET Dynamic Data Framework.
• Using the Composite Web Application Block ( CWAB ) without the Guidance Package.
• Integrating the CWAB with the ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 for dependency injection, pluggable business modules, etc.

You can view a screencast I did that summarizes a similar presentation from the Day of Patterns & Practices:

Day Of Patterns & Practices Screencast - WCSF AJAX DynamicData ASP.NET MVC Framework

To get up to speed on WCSF, I recommend visiting the WCSF CodePlex Community. For further information, I created several WCSF Screencasts that walk you through using it.

SQL Server Data Access Tips & Techniques

I love presenting this session because it introduces a lot of really cool technologies associated with data access:

• ADO.NET
• Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block
• LINQ To SQL
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Framework
• ADO.NET Entity Framework: Entity Client, Object Services, LINQ To Entities
• ADO.NET Data Services

This presentation is almost entirely done from scratch.

In addition to using LINQ To SQL, I show how to customize the ASP.NET Dynamic Data Framework using the WCSF AJAX Guidance Bundles, similar to the WCSF Presentation. You can't appreciate it from an image, but this demo shows real-time searching, autocomplete functionality, and real-time server-side validation with the Dynamic Data Framework:

I added a couple of new demos to the ADO.NET Data Services part that shows using a custom data source, BookCollection, and an AJAX Web Client that accesses the data. This is in addition to showing ADO.NET Data Services with LINQ To SQL and the ADO.NET Entity Framework:

Conclusion

Thanks again to everyone who took part in organizing the event. I had a lot of fun.

On Thursday, April 10th, 2008, I will be at the Sarasota .NET Developer Group Meeting presenting on:

• Introduction to the ASP.NET MVC Framework
• Data Access Tips & Techniques

Hope to see you there!