It’s the Lunar 7th month (Hungry Ghost Festival) and Weehyong will be talking about Casper, not Jasper this month! Also, Alan Andrews will be starting a discussion to talk about the benefits of OpenXML.
Our September 2007 UG meeting will be held on 6th September 2007 (1845 – 2100hrs) at Microsoft Singapore, Level 22 CF12.
Benefits of OpenXMLAlan Andrew Dias (MVP, Mobile Devices)This two part session delves into understanding OPENXML and how it will impact the Developer Community. The first part will deal with 5W+H of OPENXML (What, Who, Where, Why, When and How) in a demo led presentation. The second part deals with what is the impact of OPENXML for every developer.
Introduction to Jasper - Rapidly Application Development using Dynamic ADO.NETTok Wee Hyong (MVP, SQL Server)Alvin Lau (MVP, ASP.NET)Developers spend significant amount of time on writing code for data access and binding the data to the UI controls. It would have been a great boost to developer productivity if effort spend on data access and binding to UI controls can be significantly reduced.
Project Jasper is an incubation effort in the ADO.NET team to enable quick, clean and iterative development with instant results. Project Jasper provides this functionality by leveraging the ADO.NET Entity Framework and the power of dynamic languages. With Project Jasper you can drag and drop standard ASP.NET controls onto a page, set basic properties and your web application will be able to display and edit data without forcing you to write a query or any data access code.
In this talk, you will learn about the key concepts behind Project Jasper, and how this upcoming technology can empower you to build next-generation applications quickly.
About the SpeakerWee Hyong is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server. He is deeply passionate advancing the state-of-art of database technology, and speaks regularly at various Microsoft events (TechReady, MSDN Connection Meet-the-Experts, Channel9) and usergroup meetings (.Net usergroups in Singapore and Malaysia, SQL Server Usergroup). Over the past years, he has been actively sharing with the developer and DBA community in tapping the immense potential of SQL Server technology for data management and business intelligence. Alvin Lau is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for ASP.NET. He's currently working as a Consultant within Avanade Singapore and is very motivated to improve practices for .NET development and agile methodology. Off work, he's deeply involved in the IT community events within Singapore user groups.
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During the ug meeting, I discussed how to make use of Jasper to create an online ad site.If you are trying out Jasper, you can download the sample code at http://community.sgdotnet.org/files/folders/jasper/entry144836.aspx
ResourcesTo download the Jasper CTP, you can visit http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb419139.aspx
For a more complete set of slides and videos on Jasper, you can visit http://sessions.visitmix.com/
Search for: dynamic ado.netYou will be able to download the slides on "DEV18 - Rapidly Building Data Driven Web Pages with Dynamic ADO.NET ".The MIX07 video can also be found there.A Channel9 video on Project Jasper is also available at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=306240
Have fun!
Hi weehyong,
That was really pretty neat stuffs. I'm sure most of the attendees were impressed with your talk. The time was quite less though, we weren't able to have Q&A after the session. Till next time. Looking forward to more interesting stuffs in the future. Thanks a lot weehyong!
dotnetprogram,
Thanxs! Glad that you like the Jasper presentation!Remember to try it out when you have the time.