ASP.Net 2.0 Up Close and Personal 2

The afternoon was learning more about ASP.Net 2.O and things coming in the future. The big news here is Atlas. Still in a beta stage but they hope to release before the end of the year. Atlas has a couple of components. The simplest way to use it is the updatable panel. This will catch postbacks and convert them to more efficient callbacks. There is also a complete client side framework that is part of Atlas and this holds some interesting alternatives for programming the client. It all compiles down to JavaScript but if it saves having to learn a new language its got to help

The biggest challenge for me is going to be persuading someone to use 2.0 rather than 1.0

ASP.Net 2.0 Up Close and Personal 1

My pre-conference Lecture was a view on ASP 2.0. The first part was overviewing the new features of 2.0. There really are a bunch of things that they have made very easy. One of the biggest things is that they have wrapped much of the extra functionality with 'provider' interfaces. This means for example that we can use our own authentication and still use their built in controls just by implementing a provider interface to our API.

TechEd First View

I feel like a real newbie. I have been to other conferences before but I
don't think that any of them have been on quite the same scale as TechEd.
The Boston Conference Center is totally overwhelming.

Good article on SP or not SP

Adam Mechanic has written a great little article supporting the use of stored procedures as the only way to access Databases.  I think he is pretty much right but there are always exceptions…

http://www.simple-talk.com/2006/06/06/to-sp-or-not-to-sp-in-sql-server-an-argument-for-stored-procedures/