Robert MacLean
27 December 2007
In my previous post I spoke about some of the new features in 3.5. For ASP.NET though there is more goodness coming in the form of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions package. This package contains some interesting bits I want to highlight.
Now starting with Silverlight support thats a no brainer really. If your market is developers wanting great tools, then making them edit HTML to get your new platform is a little tougher than need be. The MVC is a nice thing if you believe the information on it (I haven't used it yet myself) but it basically is bringing a lot of the CCF/CAB ideas to the web in a elegant way. Lastly Astoria is a great technology (I almost built my own for a project but beta 1 came out and saved me from that) which gets your data from within the black box of servers on to the web in a way it can be consumed by client applications easily. Obviously performance doesn't compare to ADO.NET directly but if you don't have access to the server this is the way to share information.
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ASP.NET MVC: This model view controller (MVC) framework for ASP.NET provides a structured model that enables a clear separation of concerns within web applications, and makes it easier to unit test your code and support a TDD workflow. It also helps provide more control over the URLs you publish in your applications, and more control over the HTML that is emitted from them.
- ASP.NET Silverlight Support: With the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions release we'll deliver support for easily integrating Silverlight within your ASP.NET applications. Included will be new controls that make it easy to integrate Silverlight video/media and interactive content within your sites.
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ADO.NET Data Service (codename "Astoria"): In parallel with the ASP.NET Extensions release we will also be releasing the ADO.NET Entity Framework. This provides a modeling framework that enables developers to define a conceptual model of a database schema that closely aligns to a real world view of the information. We will also be shipping a new set of data services (codename "Astoria") that make it easy to expose REST based API endpoints from within your ASP.NET applications.
Now starting with Silverlight support thats a no brainer really. If your market is developers wanting great tools, then making them edit HTML to get your new platform is a little tougher than need be. The MVC is a nice thing if you believe the information on it (I haven't used it yet myself) but it basically is bringing a lot of the CCF/CAB ideas to the web in a elegant way. Lastly Astoria is a great technology (I almost built my own for a project but beta 1 came out and saved me from that) which gets your data from within the black box of servers on to the web in a way it can be consumed by client applications easily. Obviously performance doesn't compare to ADO.NET directly but if you don't have access to the server this is the way to share information.