The Baker's Dozen: 13 Tips for Building Database Web Applications Using ASP.NET 3.5, LINQ, and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
ASP.NET 3.5 and LINQ provide the greatest amount of functionality yet for building data-aware web applications. Even if you prefer to write stored procedures, you can still leverage some of LINQ to SQL functionality for accessing stored procedures inside .NET.
by Kevin S. Goff
July 11, 2008
re you moving a Windows desktop application to the browser, and sweating bullets, or perhaps just not quite sure about how all the new web and data tools work together? With each passing year, Microsoft offers newer and more powerful tools for building rich database applications on the web. So many and so frequently, in fact, that it can be hard to keep up with the new tools and still meet the requirements of your job! This article will show you how to get the most out of the new features in ASP.NET 3.5. The article will also show how you can use features in LINQ, even if you only use stored procedures for data access. And finally, since most applications use reporting, I'll throw in a few nuggets on using SQL Server Reporting Services.
The '411' on Visual Studio 2008 and Web Applications
Visual Studio 2008, recently released, includes a new version of ASP.NET (version 3.5). You may wonder why Microsoft didn't release a version called ASP.NET 3.0. The reason is that the .NET 3.0 framework focused on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows WorkFlow (WF), and Windows CardSpaces. So the .NET framework version that accompanies Visual Studio 2008 is 3.5.
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re you moving a Windows desktop application to the browser, and sweating bullets, or perhaps just not quite sure about how all the new web and data tools work together? With each passing year, Microsoft offers newer and more powerful tools for building rich database applications on the web. So many and so frequently, in fact, that it can be hard to keep up with the new tools and still meet the requirements of your job! This article will show you how to get the most out of the new features in ASP.NET 3.5. The article will also show how you can use features in LINQ, even if you only use stored procedures for data access. And finally, since most applications use reporting, I'll throw in a few nuggets on using SQL Server Reporting Services.
