Scott Guthrie - Demo of next version of ASP.NET (Happy Birthday Video #1)

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Apr 5th, 2005 @ 10:01 PM | 62,557 Views | 31 Comments

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As part of our birthday celebration, we took a trip back to see Scott Guthrie, Product Unit Manager on Web Platform and Tools team, and get a demo of the next version of ASP.NET (er, Visual Studio 2005 for Web Development).

We specifically talk about Web Standards Features in the next version of Visual Studio. Microsoft talking about Web Standards? Huh?

Listen in.

Tags: ASP.NET, Visual Studio

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ZippyV
Fired Up

Refactoring sounds really cool!
A long video so I got a couple of questions:

Why can the Intellisence thingy only work with xsd files and not DTD's ?
Is XHTML Strict also available?

scottgu

We support intellisense on XML files that have either an XSD or DTD schema. So for pure XML intellisense we work with either.

For HTML intellisense we have a standard schema that people can use to implement the intellisense rules. I think it is XSD based (although need to double-check) to make it extensible and allow you to add your own new html formats to the list.

We do provide built-in validation/intellisense support for XHTML strict as well as for transitional.

Hope this helps,

Scott

urbandude

I think I'm in love... This is the first video I've seen here that really got me excited about Microsoft tools. If I made a list of things I wanted to see in a web development tool + platform, this video is it.

I played around with Web Developer Beta 1 and had to stop using it because I felt like I was teasing myself. I'm really looking forward to Beta 2. Any news on when it'll get pushed out?

irascian
Irascible Ian

On the subject of Accessibility it was noticeable on the free training for C# ASP.NET 2.0 CD that Ken Getz and his company put out that server side controls were generating deprecated 'b' tags instead of the semantic 'strong' tag encouraged for use in screen readers.

Is this fixed in beta 2?

If not, will it be fixed in the release?

We took a lot of pain with accessibility on datagrid. Even the ASP.NET 1.1 Rollout fix that claimed compliance with accessibility legislation only fixed the problem with header tags being generated as tds and added a caption property - the required table 'summary' property was not included and trying to get label for working with radio buttons in a data grid - well let's not go there. Is this sort of issue going to be fixed in Whidby?

urbandude

Another question: any chance of datagrid tables outputing a proper table using thead > tfoot > tbody using th and td?

mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.

I'm surprised W3bbo isn't up and posting in this topic yet.

Hmm, is he sick? Perplexed

mVPstar

dmarsh
Knee draggin'

Was I the only one that kept thinking Scott was going to bump his cup of soda(?) over every time he turned back around to his laptop? Smiley

Heheh, great video though. My team's really dying to move to VS2005 almost solely for the HTML editor enhancements. Wink

vbNullString

Great demo as always. VS 2005 really excites me almost as much as the first version of VS .NET. This is a huge release in my opinion. It will change the way we develop applications to a great degree. Can't wait for the MSDN event where they will distribute the DVD for VS 2005 Beta 2!

rasx
Programmer/Analyst III, Emperor of String.Empty

So I'm at 24:16 in the 50:32 video and am wondering about new features around saving all of these custom settings and easily exporting them from machine to machine.

I am extremely impressed with the new level of respectful intimacy and thoughtfulness in this release. The Express editions will blow Macromedia tools out of the water. My brand new copy of Dreamweaver MX 2004 can't even keep tab windows open without flickering them from time to time.