3rd September 2008

ASPAlliance Times

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As the second article in a two part series, Steven examines the attributes and details of a SharePoint 2007 application page, including the construction and feature deployment of the same page based project. Since this is a WSS level objective, as opposed to MOSS, you will not need MOSS to work with the code included in this project. Windows Server 2003, WSS, and Visual Studio 2005 are all that is needed, with no additional add-ons. He provides a detailed analysis of each step involved in the creation and deployment of the project.

http://aspalliance.com/1721_SharePoint_Application_and_Site_Pages__Part_2_of_2

Editor's Comments

Last week, ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 was released on CodePlex. Scott Guthrie wrote up a fairly detailed overview of ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 on his blog yesterday. ASP.NET MVC is a new way (for most people) of writing ASP.NET applications in a more testable fashion, and with greater control over the precise output created. I expect we’ll see a beta around PDC and I’m hoping for it to release by the end of the year.

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