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 Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast.

We think that during your coffee break is the right time to attend a short talk on various subjects, starting with Silverlight this month.

Our next speaker is Stephen Walther, Microsoft Senior Program Manager and famous ASP.Net Unleashed author.

ASP.NET MVC is Microsoft's new framework for building web applications. In this talk, you learn how ASP.NET MVC framework differs from the current ASP.NET Web Forms framework. You learn how to take advantage of ASP.NET MVC to build loosely coupled, highly testable, agile applications. You also learn how ASP.NET MVC provides you with fine-grained control over your HTML and JavaScript.

This talk focuses on a short walkthrough of the process of building a simple data-driven MVC application. Stephen Walther is a Microsoft Senior Program Manager who works with the ASP.NET MVC team to develop content around ASP.NET MVC. He is the author of the forthcoming book ASP.NET MVC Unleashed. Read his blog on ASP.NET MVC at http://StephenWalther.com

Don't miss it the .Net Coffee Break Show is starting in 15 minutes with Tim Heuer about Silverlight and Data.

Join our next webcast! 15th of July 2008

The first .Net Coffee Break Show has arrived in Ireland and we will have another go with Martha Rotter Thursday 26 at 15:00 GMT.

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If you had the chance to work with LINQ, the latest Object Relational Mapping tool (ORM) added to the .NET 3.5 platform, then you understand how LINQ maps your database structure into several classes in your application. It creates for each table an entity class that has its properties mapped to the columns of the table in context. The whole point of ORM tools is to bring the database structure up to the language’s level so that your code would be aware of the structure at compile time. Nowadays developers tend to divide their application’s architecture into several distinct layers, usually 3 layers:

Jamie Pompu has spent the last week playing with the UpdateProgress control as part of the Ajax Extensions. For the most part, the control itself is quite nice to use but, there was one thing that he found to be a real pain;h e could not get the control to hide an area of a page while it was activated. Although this sounds trivial, it got to be a real pain trying to find areas in his page design that would lend well to an UpdateProgress being displayed and still be intuitive to the user what was happening.