Code(r) (In)Complete

First of all, thank you to all who attended my South Sound .NET UG presentation on the Webmatrix webstack.  I had a good time and it seemed like you all did too.

Here are some notes and the resource links from the presentation.

WebMatrix upsides

The registry trick:

When you launch Visual Studio from within WebMatrix, it will use the last installed instance of Visual Studio.  To make sure it’s targeting the one you want to use, change the registry keys that denote CurVer of Visual Studio.  This example sets the CurVer to Visual Studio 2010:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.DTE\CurVer = VisualStudio.DTE.10.0
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.DTE\CLSID = {656D8328-93F5-41a7-A48C-B42858161F25}

That CLSID value is found in the key for each version, so you can look for the VisualStudio.DTE key for that version, i.e., VisualStudio.dte.9.0 contains the CLSID for Visual Studio 2008.

IIS Express

What is it?

SQL CE

Use with WebMatrix or Visual Studio 2010

Getting the cool free stuff we talked about in the presentation:

WebMatrix  (includes IIS Express, SQL CE):    http://www.microsoft.com/web/

IIS Express: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/860/iis-express/

SQL Compact Edition:

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/editions/compact.aspx

MS Download Center

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=1038

Web Platform Installer

http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

Resources for further exploration:

http://www.microsoft.com/web/ à check out ‘Getting Started’ for how to’s, walk throughs, etc.

MS ASP.NET home page, for all things Web (ASP.NET, MVC, WebMatrix)

http://www.asp.net/

ScottGu’s blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx  à tons of articles on WebMatrix, Razor, IIS Express, Compact CE and more

IIS Homepage: http://www.iis.net/overview  à tons of info on web dev topics, check the forums for a wide range of info on IIS, SQL CE and WebMatrix

Nuget Gallery: http://nuget.org/

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen: http://www.hanselman.com/blog  à tons of stuff about web development, latest tools from Microsoft and elsewhere

Phil Haack’s Razor Syntax Guide: http://haacked.com/archive/2011/01/06/razor-syntax-quick-reference.aspx

StackOverflow:  http://www.stackoverflow.com à where interesting questions are asked and answered (hopefully)

This is the presentation I proposed months ago and rescheduled numerous times to accommodate other speakers.   There’s no escaping it now, however.

I’ve been powering through the material, crafting demos and slides, I’ve got my notes ready to go.  Come join me and the rest of the gang, this Thursday, September 8th, from 7-9.

Summary

This spring Microsoft released a lot of new developer goodness, especially around web development.  Things like ASP.NET MVC 3, Webmatrix, Razor, IIS Express, Entity Framework Code First, SQL Compact Edition, NuGet, MVCScaffolding and more.

This presentation concentrates on the items included when you install Webmatrix: the Webmatrix development environmant, IIS Express, SQL Compact and Razor.  We’ll take a tour through Webmatrix and discuss where and when we might want to use this lightweight web development too.  We’ll check out IIS Express and NuGet and SQL Compact.  And dig into the Razor view engine.

I’m getting back into the fun side of tech again after a summer of job hunting and stress.  Hoping to get more posts up here and find more resources to share.

First, however, I need to finish up a presentation I’ll be giving to the South Sound .NET UG next Thursday.  I’m going to introduce folks to some of Microsoft’s webstack of love (to borrow from Scott Hanselman).  We’ll look at Webmatrix and friends:  IIS Express, SQL Compact, Razor and NuGet.  I’ve been procrastinating for a while on this so I’m hoping I can pull it together quickly.

And, once I (and the group) has survived that presentation, I’ll get back to doing more user group and INETA business and I’ll tell y’all about my new job and the cool stuff I’m doing.

laters