With the recent release of ASP.NET 4.0, there are many new tools in the WebForms developer toolbox that make it possible to build faster, more standards-compliant web applications. In this session, you'll be introduced to all of the new major features in ASP.NET 4.0 and shown how these features can be leveraged to build better WebForms applications. From improved ViewState handling to powerful control over client IDs and caching, this session is your primer for making the upgrade to 4.0.

2. You generally remember…

3. @toddanglin

4. Todd Anglin Chief Evangelist, Telerik Microsoft MVP ASPNET Insider NHDNUG President & O’Reilly Author telerikwatch.com @toddanglin

5. Telerik One-stop provider for .NET tools & UI components UI DATA PRODUCTIVITY TESTING TFS CMS .NET Developer Productivity UI: ASP.NET AJAX, MVC, WinForms, Silverlight, WPF DATA: Telerik Reporting, OpenAccess ORM CMS: Sitefinity CMS PRODUCTIVITY: JustCode TESTING: WebUI Test Studio TFS: Work Item Manager, Project Dashboard

6. Today’s Road Map

7. What are the technologies of the web?

8. jQuery

9. Memory Lane ASP 1.0 CSS

10. At the time of ASP.NET 1… JavaScript was a pain But, IE6 held 96% browser share .NET was brand new WinForms was new, VB6 was popular Yet to be invented: AJAX* jQuery Web 2.0 Silverlight/XAML Twitter

11. Mobile MVC HTML5 Cloud REST Web Services AJAX RIA JSON Video CSS3 WebMatrix Browser War II Social Media

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13. What is “ASP.NET”?

14. ASP.NET Core Services WebForms MVC Dynamic Data AJAX

15. Abstracted HTML + JS asp.net webforms asp.net mvc On the Metal

16. introduction to asp.net 4.0 putting you in control

17. Abstracted HTML + JS asp.net webforms asp.net mvc On the Metal

18. *important notes Side-by-side enabled Backwards & Upwards compatible controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion VS 2010 only

19. ViewState ViewStatecan be opt-in ViewStateMode Enabled/Disabled/Inherit

20. Control IDs 4 Mode: AutoID Static Inherit Predictable (*default)(+ ClientIDRowSuffix) <!--Set client ID--> <asp:ListView DataSourceID=“odsYourData" ClientIDRowSuffix="ID" ClientIDMode="Predictable" <!--Global config-> <system.web> <pages clientIDMode="Predictable"> </pages> </system.web>

21. Routing Improved in 4.0 Global.asax public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication { protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) { RouteTable.Routes.Add("Product", new Route("Products/{category}", new PageRouteHandler("~/Products.aspx"))); } } <asp:Literal Text="<%$ RouteValue:Category %>" runat="server" />

22. New APIs Page Meta Info Page.MetaDescription = "this is meta description"; Page.MetaKeywords = "this is a meta keyword"; Permanent Redirect Response.RedirectPermanent(url); //issues HTTP 301 Browser Capabilities (updated for new browsers + mobile) HttpRequest.Browser.HttpBrowserCapabilities

23. Output Caching Provider-based <!--web.config--> <caching> <outputCachedefaultProvider="AspNetInternalProvider"> <providers> <add name="DiskCache" type="Test.OutputCacheEx.DiskOutputCacheProvider, DiskCacheProvider"/> </providers> </outputCache> </caching> <%--Configure cache provider per page/control--%> <%@ OutputCache Duration="60" VaryByParam="None" providerName="DiskCache" %> ?

24. Extensibility Newly extensible: Object Caching System.Runtime.Caching Invalid Path Characters Request Validation Encoding <httpRuntimeencoderType="Samples.MyCustomEncoder, Samples" /> Browser Capabilities

25. Controls New QueryExtender Improved ListView FormView Paging Outer tables Hidden DIV CSS

26. Client-side libraries Microsoft Ajax Libraries are dead* Long live jQuery What does it mean? For new client-side development, use jQuery *NOTE: jQuery ships with ASP.NET 4

27. Dynamic Data Core benefits: Model-driven validation Field Templates //Enable via Code GridView1.EnableDynamicData(typeof(Product), new { ProductName = "DefaultName" }); <!--OR Enable declaratively on page-%> <asp:DynamicDataManager ID="DynamicDataManager1" runat="server" AutoLoadForeignKeys="true"> <DataControls> <asp:DataControlReferenceControlID="GridView1" /> </DataControls> </asp:DynamicDataManager> Now more flexible!

28. jQuery & MVC Baked-in to ASP.NET

29. What’s Next Razor & WebMatrix

30. For your research… Changes to control rendering New control features Client controls & Ajax libraries IIS changes VS 2010 changes ASP.NET MVC 2 Windows Azure

31. It’s too much!

32. thanks! telerikwatch.com @toddanglin anglin@telerik.com

33. Additional Resources What’s New in Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Web Forms and Dynamic Data http://www.microsoftpdc.com/2009/FT58 Extensible output caching http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/061610-1.aspx(Disk Cache Example Code) WebForms Routing http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/54760.aspx(Good discussion of ClientIDMode on Rick’s blog)

34. Demo Plan Navigation – via template Deep linking GPU acceleration (approach) Out-of-browser Perspective 3D (if time) RIA Services Basic approach Updating business layer Blend 3 (if time)