Who is this Whidbey Guy? - What to Look Forward to in Whidbey
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What can we look forward to?
One word: speed. I guess that's always been Microsoft's methodology - find the common features, common patterns, and common code that not-so-common people (aka programmers) spend those countless hours coding, and give a way to do it faster. Much faster in fact.
For instance, most of us have spent some time developing a user creation/management/login system. I remember first outlining on paper the process I wanted to take them through, how to catch mistakes and bad log-ons. Then the hundreds of lines of code -- that was fun. I was somewhat happy that I'd built it in a somewhat modular fashion so that I could reuse it. But I would have been much happier if Whidbey was around at the time!
Right out of the box, we can jump into the web application administration tool, and run through the security setup wizard. Very, very quickly we can be administering the users/members on our site. Once they're in, the next (built-in) steps are to administer roles and permissions.
But then how difficult is it to implement the login interface into our application? How many lines of code? Guess. No, really, guess! The answer: 0 lines of procedural code, 1 server control in the form of <asp:login>. Incredible, amazing, and simply unbelievable! But it just keeps getting better, with pre-built components to handle forgotten passwords, easily differentiating between logged-in and anonymous users, and more.
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