Keynote with Scott Handslemen

Definitions

• MCSE : minesweeper consultant and solitaire engineer
• REST - Representational state transfer
• Uses http
• RESTafarian
• atom is a formalization of syndication in the same vain as RSS
• atom is a standard
• monkey code is code that is easy to say, long to do
• monkey coder is someone who codes monkeys

Tools

• Fiddler - http debugging proxy
• LINQpad - kicks complete ass. Like query analyser
• TcpTrace - pocketsoap.com - port forwarding for localhost
• DataSvcUtil.exe does auto generation of code from schema
• LINQ to NHibernate
• In the works

Dynamic Data Web Applications

• provides the Web application scaffolding that enables you to build rich data-driven Web applications

• Extends the views (dataview, etc.) in the ASP.Net controls to make data binding suck less
• Basically seems to be a really smart, simple, and pretty way of displaying data
• Creates a dynamic data folder which holds templates
• Also make found column sucks less
• Bound columns should be less horrible
• Adds the system.web.routing namespace
• Get vs.net 2008 sp1 to use this
• Remember, urls do not always reflect what's on disk
• DynamicDataRoute
• Everything you are given can be changed
• everything is displayed according to its Datatype (magic)
• dynamic data is a way of keeping things DRY
• DynacicField are used as a replacement for BoundField
• move towards convention over configuration
• that's what it is, live with it

Astoria - ADO.Net Data Services

• SOAP versus REST both have their place (REST when you just want to get data)
• Gives access to data contexts
• Can expose tables/views in an aspx page
• Can set granular data access
• Security etc.
• .svc files are simply pointers
• I don’t really know what these are, but if you see them, they are just pointers
• Lock down development server port for simplicity
• This is normally set up dynamically, we could change these to static so we don’t have to change anything relying on them
• The web is about interlinked resources
• The web is a resource oriented architecture
• Data is returned as an atom feed
• Just like a blog site would be.
• The result is just syndicated data
• This is a formalization of a data model
• 16 verbs in http used in REST
• get, post. put, delete are CRUC operations
• object identity is not the same as object structure
• So, just because two objects look alike, doesn’t mean they are the same
• Remember, http header contains a lot of information you can use as a developer

Concepts

• any problem in programming can be solved by an additional layer of abstraction
• any advance technology is indistinguishable from magic
• therefore, any sufficient layer of abstraction is indistinguishable from magic

LINQ

• remember, you can LINQ to anything, not just SQL
• LINQ is not tunneled, doesn’t use no strings
• LINQ has deferred execution

Notes

• %20 represents a 'space' in a url
• Microsoft offers MVC (Model-View-Controller) as a new project type too

DevTeach Notes

• Touch typing is very important!