Robert MacLean
14 May 2010
I had a great time in Durban this week presenting at the DevDays event. I was a bit nervous for my first keynote but calmed down once I was up there. I was much less nervous for the sessions and they turned out to be great fun.
Knowing is half the battle
As part of my prep I did fully script the demos and those scripts are included in hidden slides in the slide shows – so if you are looking to recreate the demos please download the slides and have a look.
For both my sessions I made use of the excellent (but I’m biased) Rule 18 tool. So if you looking for the actual code, which I referred to in my scripts with Rule 18 key presses, you should really download that too.
All the demos were done using Visual Studio 2010.
What’s new in ASP.NET 4?
- Demo Bits
- Rule 18 Snippets
- Websites and tools mentioned in the talk:
- jQuery
- ASP.NET Chart Controls for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5
- Windows Server AppFabric (previous called Velocity), which is the distributed caching solution.
- Web Platform Installer
- Used to install web application to IIS, like Drupal or Joomla
- Used to install MVC 1
What’s new in .NET 4?
- Demo Bits
- To save size in the bits I have not included the IMDB data dump, which you will want to download and include to get the IMDB provider to work.
- Rule 18 Snippets
- Websites and tools mentioned in the talk: