It's fairly obvious I haven't blogged for a while, but I guess it doesn't really matter. Over the past few weeks since my last post, I've been on a trip trying out more new things then ever before.
I built an ASP.NET MVC based website using the S#arp Architecture and NHibernate. Without a whole lot of joy I was hoping it would be, but certainly a very good learning exercise.
I also installed two flavours of Linux (Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9) and one flavour of Windows (Windows 7) on VMWare Workstation. I am happy to report that unlike the painful experience with S#arp Architecture and NHibernate, these exercises went smoothly and with a whole lot of joy ;-) I am fast running out of disk space though ;-(
The latest trial started a couple of hours ago. I took the risk and installed .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Team Suite Edition Beta 1 on my development laptop running Vista Business. The framework installation crashed aspnet_regiis towards the end but seems no harm was done. It also changed all the application pools to run on framework 4.0 so I had to manually change them back. Thankfully, no such dramas with the VS install.
Diving straight into it, I managed to create a web forms application doing basic CRUD stuff without writing a single line of code. Yep that's right, not a single line of code! Using the ADO.Net Entity Framework, I managed to hookup and populate the Gridview control with simple wizards. The generated code looks pretty neat as well. This makes it that much easier and faster to churn out quick and dirty throw away prototypes. But that's not why I've been so eager to try out this Beta. Web Forms are so out of fashion. Pity ASP.NET MVC isn't in the Beta version, but I am going to try a couple of tricks suggested by Phil Haack.
When all's said and done, tt's the toolset for the Architecture Edition and the Team Foundation Server that I really want to get my teeth into.
It's going to be a fun weekend with VS 2010 whenever I can pry myself away from my wife and the little champion ;-)
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