Friday, September 19, 2008

The ODNC Luncheon Seminar Series Presents

An Introduction to ASP.NET Dynamic Data

 

We’ve got a bit of a good news, bad news” situation. The bad news is that we ran out of time at last week’s Season Kick Off” and Joel Hebert (our ASP.NET MVP) was unable give his presentation on “ASP.NET Dynamic Data”. The good news is that he’s agreed to present this material at next week’s Luncheon Event! As always, these Lunch and Learn sessions are a great way to enhance your development skills and meet up with colleagues and enjoying your lunch all at the same time. If you’d like to join in then please RSVP for the event by sending an email request to events@OttawaCommunity.Net today!

 

An Introduction to ASP.NET Dynamic Data

ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a web application scaffolding framework from Microsoft that can be used to build data driven web applications. It is packaged as an extension to ASP.NET and can be easily incorporated into a development project. This presentation will describe some of Dynamic Data’s key attributes and some of the scenarios in which it can be put to good use. We will also look at the ease with which Dynamic Data applications can be customized to meet your specific requirements.

 

About our Speaker

Joël Hébert is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET and the Director and Chief Architect at Opulent ASP Development Inc. where he works as a consultant specializing in ASP.NET Enterprise Architecture/Development. He has developed large-scale web applications and Computer Aided Audit Tools for CaseWare-IDEA and is currently working on federal government projects. Joel is a long standing member of the Ottawa .Net Community’s steering committee and has been involved in many of its projects including; the “The Developers” TV show, Inter-User Group Challenges, and a number of MCAD/MCTS study groups. Joel is also responsible for introducing & hosting the Product Discovery Showcases at our events.

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 Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Ottawa .NET Community Presents

The 2008/2009 Season Kick-Off

 

Greetings Everyone!  The Labour Day Weekend is around the corner and it’s time to kick off another season of Presentations, Special Projects, and Study Groups aimed at helping you become the Developer Superstars that you were meant to be!  On Thursday evening, September 4th, we’ll be hosting our first presentation of the season with 2 speakers and 3 topics. Joël Hébert and Wesley MacDonald will be talking about managing session state in a web farm environment, getting more out of your development efforts with SharePoint 2007, and the Dynamic Data Extension that comes with ASP.NET. We`ll also be talking about the year ahead so please do RSVP for this event by sending an email to Events@OttawaCommunity.Net ASAP!  We look forward to seeing you soon…..

 

About Presentation #01

Topic 1: Effective Web Farm Session State Management

Presenter: Joël Hébert, Microsoft MVP (ASP.NET)

Handling ASP.NET session state effectively can become a challenge. There exist scalability, performance and architectural bottlenecks associated with the various options that are available. This said there are numerous techniques and topologies that have been developed for web garden and web farm scenarios. Determining which option is best for your environment is key as no one technique is better than another; rather it is simply best suited. In order to determine suitability we will converse and demonstrate the various elements of each option and showcase coding implementations.

 

Topic 2: DO LESS. GET MORE.

Presenter: Wes MacDonald, Microsoft MVP (Team System)

This presentation will look at SharePoint 2007 in terms of user management, web parts, page branding and workflows. It will show you why you should be developing your applications on SharePoint 2007 and what you’ll need to get started.

 

Topic 3: Introduction to ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Presenter: Joël Hébert, Microsoft MVP (ASP.NET)

ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a web application scaffolding framework from Microsoft that can be used to build data driven web applications. It is packaged as an extension to ASP.NET and can be easily incorporated into a development project. This presentation will describe some of Dynamic Data’s key attributes and some of the scenarios in which it can be put to good use. We will also look at the ease with which Dynamic Data applications can be customized to meet your specific requirements.

 

About our Speakers

Joël Hébert is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET and the Director and Chief Architect at Opulent ASP Development Inc. where he works as a consultant specializing in ASP.NET Enterprise Architecture/Development. He has developed large-scale web applications and Computer Aided Audit Tools for CaseWare-IDEA and is currently working on federal government projects. Joel is a long standing member of the Ottawa .Net Community’s steering committee and has been involved in many of its projects including; the “The Developers” TV show, Inter-User Group Challenges, and a number of MCAD/MCTS study groups. Joel is also responsible for introducing & hosting the Product Discovery Showcases at our events.

 

Wes MacDonald is a Microsoft MVP for Team System, a senior .NET Architect/Developer and a Principal Consultant for Like 10 Inc. Wes has been working with Team Foundation Server since its beta release and is currently helping government departments adopt it and the .NET Framework as their primary development platform. In addition to his expert skills in .NET, Wes is well versed in Oracle, SQL Server, and J2EE. He is currently focused on SharePoint 2007, Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008. Learn more about Wes at http://wesmacdonald.spaces.live.com/.

 

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 Thursday, July 31, 2008

Today, I got a very nice email, followed by me screaming like the kid in Home Alone, stating that I have received/have been awarded the Microsoft Most valuable Professional Award for ASP.NET.

I am very excited to become and MVP and extremely excited to extend my duties as an ASP.NET expert.

 

 
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 Saturday, June 21, 2008

I met Justice Gray at the Microsoft Community Influencer Summit ... was perusing his blog and noticed he is reading 27 books in 27 weeks! 

Inspired by this I went on chapter.ca (yes that is the canadian one, vive le syrop d'erable!) and puchased a set of books to read within the next year 

Here are the books I am going to read in the next year:

 

Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples In C# And .net
 
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
 
Refactoring: Improving The Design Of Existing Code
 
Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models
 
Planning Extreme Programming
 
User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
 
 

 
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 Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Some of the members of the Ottawa .Net community were asking me to post the tools that I utilized during my N-layering presentation therefore I would like to bring them forth to my bloggers since they are superb
 
 First and foremost here is the stored procedure wrapper that creates a nice strongly-typed class to wrap your stored procedures...great time saver!
 
Stored procedure wrapper

 

Secondly  , here is the code generator I demo-ed.

Data Access Layer | Entity Layer | SQL Stored Procedure Generator Using Visual Studio 2005 & C#       

This Tool Generates Data Access Layer including respective stored procedures, associated Business layer and Entity layer class which is shared between both Data Access layer and Business Layer. It takes MSSQL connection string as input.

About C# Source Code Generator :
This Tool Generates Data Access Layer including respective stored procedures, associated Business layer
and Entity layer class which is shared between both Data Access layer and Business Layer.
It takes MSSQL connection string as input.

Benefits of using code generator:
1) Rapid Application Development. Saves lots of time.
2) It Uses Microsoft Application block which are optimised to transact with any database server with very less code.
3) All code is generated according to Microsoft coding standards.
4) No need to write stored procedures it generates for you.
5) Code is maintainable and standard

Prerequisite to Generate classes
.NET Framework 2.0,Microsoft Application blocks

Prerequisite to Use classes
Visual Studio 2005 ,Microsoft Application blocks

Enter Connection string in Connection string text Box
2) Enter location path where you want to generated file to be saved
3) Enter the desired root Namespace for all of your classes for ex. you can provide your company name or a project name etc.
4) Click "Connect to database " Button
5) Select the tables from the list and click "Generate Code " Button it will generate and save all the files to the provided location

CsharpCodeGenerator.zip (18.58 KB)

 

Thirdly, the orm tool that I showed is built into vs2008. Look only for instructions on linq to classes and you are good to go.

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