Lap around ASP'Net Dynamic Data

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Lap around ASP.Net Dynamic Data
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Agenda

• Introduction
• Back End
• Front End
• Implications
• Questions

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About me

• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Developer Admin PM
• Speaker at CapArea.Net
• mobiusdevelopment.com
• twitter.com/jwmiller5
• delicious.com/jwmiller5/dynamicdata

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What is it

• ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a web application
  scaffolding framework, shipped as an extension
  to ASP.NET, that can be used to build data driven
  web applications.

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Demo 1
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How did they do that

• ASP.Net Routing
• Linq / DataContext
• Dynamic Control

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Supported Data Models

• LINQ to SQL
• Entity Framework
• LLBLGen
• NHibernate
• Your ORM???
• DataContext/ObjectContext
• Linq support
• Datasource control with SelectParameters

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Customization

• Scaffolding
• ScaffoldTable
• VisibleTables
• ScaffoldColumn
• Extending objects
• Validation

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Routing

• ASP.NET routing is the secret sauce that builds
  the URL to each scaffolded table.
• A DynamicData route is defined as a
• Table
• Action
• ViewName (optional)

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Look Feel

• Application Wide
• Page Templates
• Master Pages
• Object Specific
• Custom Pages

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Demo 2
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Custom Field Templates

• DynamicControl
• DynamicField
• UIHint
• Convention vs Configuration

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Possible Use

• Read-only view of production
• RAD data entry
• Prototyping DAL
• Extend existing web applications

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Benefits

• Validation
• Quick reaction to data changes
• Quick update to UI functionality
• Compatible with WebForms

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Watch your step

• Dynamic Data is v1.0
• Existing bugs
• MS History with data technologies
• Requires several modern technologies (Routing,
  Linq)

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bit.ly/ddfutures

• Dynamic Data Futures on CodePlex
• Support for ADO.NET Data Services (also known as
  Project code name Astoria)
• Support for binding to plain CLR objects
• Support for ObjectDataSource
• Localized displayname and description attributes
• Advanced filters (autocomplete, cascading)
• FieldTemplate for Enum columns

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Questions??

• bit.ly/dynamicdata