I was at the .NET Road Show in NYC the other day and we got a little preview of Whidbey (ASP.NET 2.0). Holy crap, I want this now. Every project I'm working on right now, I'm thinking "what is the point of me doing this right now? If I wait till Whidbey comes out, I could build this entire site with like 10 lines of code. Maybe LESS."
Has anyone gotten to use it at all yet? My employer has an alpha copy, but he's not sharing yet. I think he knows that our productivity will go to hell if we have this to play with when we're supposed to be working on .NET 1.1 projects. ;)
Has anyone gotten to use it at all yet? My employer has an alpha copy, but he's not sharing yet. I think he knows that our productivity will go to hell if we have this to play with when we're supposed to be working on .NET 1.1 projects. ;)
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Re: Whidbey
Sun, February 8, 2004 - 7:08 AMI saw the road show in Chicago, and I agree, the new Whidbey is great.
I am looking forward to developing on it. Unfortunately, they developed something I was working on, and they did it so much better. If I had the time, it would have been equally as nice. The new template pages are great, but I have been doing those for about 2 years now, with my own system. My system is not WYSIWYG, so it is a little bit of a pain at first, but making a change on the template, and everything is done is nice. I guess if I had their resources, mine would have beat them to market. Oh well, I am just one man with a 40 hr job, and they are many more working full time at it.
All in all, I am really looking forward to working with it. We will see if 10 lines of code makes a full blown web site, sounds too much like Front Page to me :).
One feature that almost got a standing ovation was the "We won't re-write your code". It is about time!! -
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Re: Whidbey
Sun, February 8, 2004 - 7:21 AMhahaha that feature DID get a standing ovation at the NYC show :)
and as for master pages, yeah I think everyone has written themselves SOME way to handle that... mine was always a header and footer user control. but it'll be REALLY nice to have something built-in for that.
I'm sure most real-world applications will require actual coding, but all of the full-blown demo sites that whidbey is going to ship with are going to be zero lines of code, and I just think that's pretty goddamn cool.
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Tue, February 10, 2004 - 2:39 PMWill the Studio serioulsy stop re-formatting my HTML? I might have just peed. -
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Re: Whidbey
Tue, February 10, 2004 - 5:14 PMyes. yes it will. all praise the Whidbey!
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Re: Whidbey
Wed, February 11, 2004 - 1:53 PMIts official. I have achieved pee.
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Re: Whidbey
Fri, February 13, 2004 - 8:24 PMIt sure will kill a lot of 3rd party tools, but that's OK.
I have a copy right now from the dude who went to PDC. It's nice, what can I say. I want it now, unfortunately, it will be some time before we can use it in the real world.
ASP.NET got a lot of new stuff, templating, new grid and personalization will get rid of a lot of extra code.
I'm really looking forward to generics support in C# and partial classes. Code generation will become more powerfull and easier to maintain.
Ohhh, I'm getting excited just thinking about it...
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Re: Whidbey
Sat, March 20, 2004 - 11:21 AMBut with the release date sometime next year, we might have to start calling it "Would-be" -
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Re: Whidbey
Tue, July 13, 2004 - 12:29 PMwell its out and it been called visualwebdev express 2005..so anyone play with it yet? still trying to figure out what all the preequistes are myself.
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