Building Data Centric Web Applications using ASP.NET Dynamic Data
By: Rachel Appel

If you are tired of the same old ASP.NET Web Forms, GridViews, and ADO.NET data access code that make up your current applications, then you'll want to take a closer look at ASP.NET Dynamic Data. ASP.NET Dynamic Data is Microsoft's new technology that provides a template infrastructure for your application, page and fields based on your application's data model.

In this session you will learn concepts and use of application templates to create an ASP.NET dynamic data web application. We'll then create customizations at the application and page levels showing how easy website maintenance is when using ASP.NET Dynamic Data. We'll also cover field level customizations by supplying data display formats, custom field types, and data validation based on the application's data model, which is created using the Entity Framework.

About Rachel Appel - Rachel has been working as a mentor, instructor, software developer, architect and DBA for nearly 20 years. During her career, Rachel has worked with a variety of languages, technologies and systems and has contributed to projects of all sizes including large scale enterprise applications at some of the world's leading companies.

Rachel is the Vice President of the .Net Valley user group, as well as a leader and regular speaker in the Philly.NET and Central Penn.NET user groups of Pennsylvania. She can also be found speaking at code camps, user groups, community events and conferences.

Rachel's expertise lies within developing solutions that align business and technology using the Microsoft .NET family of products, particularly ASP.NET & SQL Server. She is also an ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider and holds the Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCAD & MCSD certifications.

She is also a member of the INETA speakers bureau.