Visual Studio SP1 Beta is out (Dynamic Data to Entities)
You must admit that the framework that we all knew, became a really big one one the last releases of visual studio, and if we look forward it seems that our big tool box or shall I call it a box of tools (not to be confused with the popping up one for visual controls) is just getting bigger and the tools are getter shinier.
If we'll try to look at what SP1 is going to offer us this summer, we better take a look at the beta that just came out today, and we'll see a lot of great additions to the current version of visual studio. I'll concentrate on the Web side this time, and I'll talk about the following subjects on my following posts so stay tuned :
Dynamic Data to Entities
You can now build Dynamic data projects that are using ADO.NET Entities FW.
System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll
All the new Attributes for customizing dynamic pages with some few changes and some new staff from the previous version.
System.Web.Abstractions.dll
More helper classes for mocking to the rescue, so writing tests is now more robust with httpContextBase, HttpRequestBase, HttpResponseBase. (more Base abstract classes and more wrappers than previous version like ApplicationStateBase and Wrapper, and a few more… ).
System.web.routing.dll
The routing mechanism is now available to all web applications so you can control the look of your Urls from any web site, and the the new dynamic data project template is doing it out of the box.
You can find more information about the new assemblies in VS2008 SP1 beta on Guy Burstein Blog at this post : New Assemblies in Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1.
Download VS2008 SP1 beta
Enjoy