TechEd@Hyderabad-Day1

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Today I attended TechED-09. Here are the updates from the sessions I attended and some of the interesting things I found out

ASP.NET 4.0 Features from Stephen Walther, Program Manager, ASP.NET
  • Source based development, more focus on a neater and readable code
  • Asp.net control’s client side ID code looked weird, so if you were using a client side script framework like JQuery it would be difficult to identify the control’s id in case a control lives inside a Master page. In ASP.Net 4.0 there is a property called {Control}.ControlID that will allow to the users to specify a more neater feature
  • Auto rendering of the code with "runat=server” attribute once picked from intelli sense  for common controls
  • <asp:formview> and <asp:listview> now allows you to render them in div mode apart from the traditional table mode
  • Viewstate can be disabled at the page level and then enabled for particular controls .  This is different from the EnableViewState mode since ViewState is inherited to the child controls whereas the EnableViewState does not
  • Response.Redirect was not SEO friendly and search engine had issues with indexing them . Now asp.net 4.0 enables you to use Response.PermanentRedirect which emits a status code that is recognized by Search Engines(i believe it is status code 301 if i am remembering this correctly)
  • New control added in asp.net 4 –>  QueryExtender . More about this here https://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg/archive/2009/04/12/asp-net-queryextender-control-and-domaindatasource.aspx
  • Features added to ASP.Net Core are
    • Cache Extensibility using Velocity
    • Browser capabilities extensibility
    • Session state compression using 2 main industry standards . One of them is GZIP

Some of the interesting questions asked by attendees are and there answers by Stephen

  • Can i deploy ASP.NET application to the cloud(Microsoft Azure) ?
      You can use visual studio 2008 azure toolkit to deploy the applications to Azure
  • When do we use Silverlight vs ASP.NET Web Forms vs ASP.NET MVC vs ASP.Net Ajax
    These are targeted to different needs and hence different problems.
  • How can i combine some features from asp.net 4.0 and dynamic data . Can we club them ?
    Yes you can.
  • Check ASP.Net 4.0 and VS 2010 features White paper here https://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet40/
ASP.Net MVC from Stephen Walther

Well most of this talk was a walk through of a demo application and it was quite interesting. Some of the main features from MVC RTM that needs to be mentioned are

  • SEO based URLs
  • PartialAjaxUpdate
  • Velocity code templates available(this one refers to the java Velocity)
  • Create your own code generation for View creation using T4 templates
LINQ Deep Drive from Sanjay Vyas

This session was like starting from the beginning like how Linq works. So I am not going to spend time detailing it , there is plenty information already available on the net. I will post some interesting questions asked in the session and my answers to the same

  • Is the var keyword reflected at runtime ?
    No, the CompilerService actually converts it to a type but does not give it a name. It actually looks something like this  if you use ILDasm

    class [System.Core]System.Func`2<int32,class '<>f__AnonymousType0`1'<int32>> LinqTest.Program::'CS$<>9__CachedAnonymousMethodDelegate4'

  • Can we use Linq for existing Datasets ?
    Yes, but only if you compile it with .net 3.5 framework. Here is more details about this on  MSDN https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386977.aspx 

  • Whats the benefit of Property initializers , can’t i use constructors instead ?
    In a normal code you can but when you are writing a Linq Select statement and creating a new type the initializer becomes handy

  • Is the return type of the following query an IList<int> 

    List<int>list=newList<int>() {1,2,3,4,5 };

    var res=from o in     list
    where o >     2
    select(new{iVal =o});            

        No, instead would be a type of IEnumerable<int>

  • Is there a performance hint while using Linq
    Not that we know of , but in case you find one, send us a repro code with the details of the delay  

  • What is the difference between IQueryable and IEnumerable
    Graphically put

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    Simply put IQueryable allows the mechanism for expression evaluation using queries. IEnumerator allows you to enumerate the collection. IQueryable on evaluation of a query expression gives you back a Enumerator for the resultant collection

Until next post :)