March 07, 2008
This month UG meeting will be held on 7th of March, 19:00 at Elieff Center for Education and Culture, Studentski grad, Sofia, Hall 103. We have a special guest from INETA - Alex Thissen. Alex is going to talk about WPF and LINQ in two different sessions. Here are the abstracts: Windows Presentation Foundation In this talk the speaker will show some of the powerful features of WPF that clearly shows its potential as an application framework. The session will focus on styling, resources, templates and data-binding for WPF controls. Learn how styling for WPF brings CSS of the web to the world of Windows applications. You get to see that templates allow you to completely change the look of controls and how resources are used in WPF. And last, but not least, this session will cover the data-binding options, which offer much more control and possibilities to combine data and controls. The session shows all features in several demos and puts the pieces of this puzzle together by combining it all. LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML The .NET Framework 3.5 has support for language integrated querying and ships with providers for various data sources. In this talk we will take a close look at two of these: LINQ to query SQL Server databases and XML data. After a quick introduction to the basics we are going to dive right in and get a deeper understanding of how and where LINQ queries are executed. Finally, you get to see how LINQ can be used for real-life scenarios such as a WPF application. This session is going to be full of demos and offers room for lots of questions from the audience. About the Speaker Alex Thissen is .NET technology evangelist from INETA Europe Speakers Bureau. He works for Class-A, a company specialized in training and coaching on Microsoft technologies and tools. He is a .NET trainer and teaches and coaches developers to build better software. He teaches the .NET Platform and Framework to both developers and architects. He has been a trainer for many years now and also spent quite some time with COM+ and Visual Basic. Alex performs audits of .NET implementations and the development teams responsible for it. He has written a number of articles for various magazines, such as .NET Magazine, the Visual Basic Group and SDC Magazine. You can probably find Alex at conferences, seminars and other community events where he likes to share his experiences from training and coaching. Thanks to Telerik and INETA for all the support! Labels: INETA, LINQ
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 3:41 AM
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December 12, 2007
The preview version of ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions is released. The Extensions are a new set of tools and controls that will be added onto existing release of ASP.NET with .NET 3.5. This will make possible for web developers to get the latest updates on ASP.NET without having to wait 1-2 years more for the next release of .NET Framework. It also includes ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3, which you can also download as a separate file here (you do not need to download it if you have ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview installed already).
What’s in the Extensions Release?
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET MVC provides model-view-controller (MVC) support to the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime, which enables developers to more easily take advantage of this design pattern. Benefits include the ability to achieve and maintain a clear separation of concerns, as well as facilitate test driven development (TDD).
The ASP.NET MVC Toolkit provides HTML rendering helpers and dynamic data support for MVC.
ASP.NET Dynamic Data
ASP.NET Dynamic Data helps developers build a fully customizable, data-driven app quickly. It provides a rich scaffolding framework that allows rapid data driven development without writing code, yet it is easily extendible using the traditional ASP.NET programming model.
ASP.NET AJAX
New additions to ASP.NET AJAX include support for managing browser history (Back button support).
ADO.NET Entity Framework
ADO.NET Entity Framework is a new 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. Benefits include easier to understand and easier to maintain application code that is shielded from underlying database schema changes.
ADO.NET Data Services
ADO.NET Data Services provide new services that find, manipulate and deliver data over the web using simple URIs. Benefits include an easy and flexible way to access data over the web, while enabling the separation of presentation and data access code.
Silverlight Controls for ASP.NET
You can integrate the rich behavior of Microsoft Silverlight into your Web application by using two new ASP.NET server controls: a MediaPlayer server control that enables easy integration of media sources such as audio (WMA) and video (WMV) into your Web application, and a Silverlight server control that allows an ASP.NET page to reference both XAML objects and their event handlers.
Labels: ASP.NET, LINQ
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 12:41 AM
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November 28, 2007
The first LINQ tutorial in Bulgarian is fact! It just came to my mind that I forget to tell you the good news earlier. Author of the tutorial is Galin Iliev aka Galcho. He wrote about 50 pages tutorial written in Bulgarian. He covers everything you need to get started with LINQ by yourself. The tutorial is available in HTML and PDF format. It is on introductory level, so one can easily find his way into the whole story. Here are the contents of the tutorial: Въведение Въведение в LINQ и основни възможности Инициализиране на обекти и колекции Подразбиране на типа на променливите Анонимни типове Автоматично изграждане на свойства Разширяващи методи (Extension Methods) Ламбда изрази Дървета от изрази (expression trees) LINQ в детайли Основни оператори LINQ to Objects LINQ to SQL LINQ to Entities LINQ to DataSets LINQ to XML LINQ to XSD Заключение Използвани източници Download the PDF fileLabels: LINQ
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