Today Scott Guthrie announced on his blog that the .NET Framework Library’s source code will be released to developers with .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. For those of us who know about .NET Reflector we may be unimpressed, but what this will do is provide an excellent debugging feature in the future. I’m very impressed with the care Microsoft is taking with developers these days.
The Spry Team Annouced the Upcoming Release of Spry 1.6
Some interesting news features listed there. By the sounds of it it’s going to be another prerelease. I would be hesitant to use it in commercial projects but have played around with it in the past and found it to be a good framework. Of course, that made me start thinking of working on trying to integrate Spry into ASP.NET as custom server controls. I think it’s possible and I plan to look into it some more this weekend. The only problem I could see is updating it with subsequent versions of Spry, but that primarily depends on whether Adobe decides to make changes in the required markup and JavaScript calls.
A quick roundup of some of the interesting ASP.NET blog posts/tutorials that popped into my mailbox this week.
Integrate Windows Live ID Authentication with ASP.NET Membership, Profiles and Roles
A nice tutorial by Peter Bromberg on how to integrate Windows Live ID into your ASP.NET site.
ASP.NET enhancements in VS2008 and .NET FX3.5
A post on Somasegar’s WebLog about some of the new features in Visual Studio and .NET FX3.5 including the integration of the ASP.NET AJAX extensions, LINQ (including the new LinqDataSource control!), and Membership, Roles, and Profiles using JSON and SOAP.
LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression with the control)
The 9th part of a tutorial series by Scott Guthrie on using LINQ with SQL. Links to Parts 1 through 8 can be found at the top of the above linked post.