Scott Guthrie - Talking ASP.NET and IIS 7.0 | TheChannel9Team

Charles
Welcome Change

It's important to realize that the ASP.NET team has been the greatest (and earliest) adopter of .NET inside our walls and are true champions of the CLR. Much kudos to the ASP.NET team for what they've done with CLR-based technology. The feedback they've pumped back to the CLR team since very early on has benefited all of us today.

Can you guess how much of ASP.NET is written in C#? You'll find out in the second clip, but go ahead and guess.

Thanks,

Charles

DouglasH
Just Causual

Any hint on what the Client implentation of IIS 7.0 is going to be like??

Right now IIS 5.1 is worthless from a client perspective. run into its limitations with one user and doing quick starts.

for personal use would be nice to have a slightly more robust platform with eyes that it can move to a server.

better yet give us a Home Server platform that we can use:)

harumscarum
out of memory

Charles wrote:

Can you guess how much of ASP.NET is written in C#?

90%?

It is too bad that iis6 only came on server 2003. I think a lot of developers have been left out since it does not run on xp.

rasx
Programmer/Analyst III, Emperor of String.Empty

For those who would say (like the senior George Bush) that guys like me are “happy saying something negative,” you guys have forgotten how much I gush over Scott Guthrie. I’ve got nothing bad to say about this guy. The work of his team speaks for itself. That he would actually say ‘XHTML’ places him alone among the great ‘next generation’ Microsoft employees.

Scott is still talking about being standards compliant when this mantra seems to escape most Microsoft users and employees who are trying to ‘keep it real.’ When I hear Scott talking about standards compliance, I am hearing a professional realize that like Jeffrey Veen web pages are publications that need style guides and standard syntax—just like any traditional publication.

Most guys are slobs and they just want to get the job done in two minutes or less. Guys like Scott make my two minutes count—and we don’t come off as slobs.

Keep my Channel 9 comments positive by bringing in more SQL Server folks, Don Box (of course) and some history about Microsoft Word (find an old timer from the Microsoft Word team—since clearly the new guys are too busy to go online).

rhm

I wonder if the ASP.NET team realise who many potential developers have completely ignored ASP.NET because of the name. When I've spoken to web developers about server-side technology it's apparent a lot of them think that ASP.NET is just a .NET-ified version of classic ASP, i.e. that it's essentially the same thing and just uses C# instead of vbscipt.

Of course a lot of them are PHP fanatics that probably wouldn't switch to a Windows-based technology anyway, but I do get the impression that because PHP is so good at what it does they are blinded to the possibility that something else could be better. I mean PHP takes the old "embed code in your webpages" idea that started with Coldfusion and was popularised by ASP and does it to perfection, but it's still based on an old and pretty simplistic execution model. What ASP.NET with seperating code from page layout and allowing componentisation of code is such a nice way to work by comparison it does my head in that people ignore it because its got those three letters ASP in the name. Bad marketting decision in my view.

dbates

I seen Scott do a demo of Whidbey in Reading (UK) last year, was by far the best technical presentation I’ve seen.

C9 show us a video of Scott making a blog reader with no lines of code!!

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

We'll get more demos with the ASP.NET team and Scott. Thanks!

scottgu

Hi Doug,

Our plan is to enable IIS7 to work on the client and server. We are also looking to change some of the limitations previous versions have had on client-platforms to make it a more full-featured offering.

Hope this helps,

Scott

DouglasH
Just Causual

scott,

yes it does. thanks.

can't wait to play with it:)

Douglas