DotNetSlackers has just released Ajax Data Controls (ADC) as open source. The project is hosted at codeplex and there are several live examples which can be seen at the samples link below.

The ADC contains an AjaxGridView, AjaxDataList, AjaxRepeater and they are going to add more controls very soon as well.

To get a feel for them, check out the samples page. Very cool stuff by “TheSlackers” !

Project home: http://codeplex.com/ajaxdatacontrols
Live Samples: http://dotnetslackers.com/projects/ajaxdatacontrols
Team Blog: http://dotnetslackers.com/community/blogs/sonukapoor/default.aspx
Team Blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/rashid
Forums: http://dotnetslackers.com/community/forums/71.aspx

ScottGu had presented the new ASP.NET MVC Framework as a prototype last week in ALT.NET Conference.

Ultimately this is a group that believes in:

• Continuous Learning
• Being Open to Open Source Solutions
• Challenging the Status Quo
• Good Software Practices
• DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)
• Common Sense when possible
  
  

It enables Test Driven Development by default. You can unit test the application without having to run the controllers within an ASP.NET process. You can use any unit-testing framework such as NUnit, NBUnit.

You can extend the framework by writing your own view engine. And the most amazing feature is to be pluggable. You can use any existing Dependency Injection and IOC container models such as Windsor, Spring.Net, NHibernate, etc.

You don't need URL-Rewriting frameworks anymore you can handle this process in your Controller classes. Your URLs will be SEO friendly easly.

These features and design choices represent a huge paradigm shift for Microsoft. They say to the open source .NET community: “We recognize your contributions, and we’re not going to try and reinvent what you’ve done. Instead, we’re going to make it pluggable, so you can use whatever technology you favor.”

It looks like Patterns & Practice team had really good job!. I wish i could be in this conference :( what a shame ! 

To watch The Gu and Scott Hanselman follow the link.

Thanks Guys !

Doga

ScottGu posted about that and says his team has been working to enable ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET framework. So Visual Studio .NET 2008 will be delivered with source code(With source file comments included). That is really big feature that lets .Net developers to debug inside a .NET Framework class.

Click here and read the full Scott post! There are some great images on his post that will make us to dream within the final release.

To learn more about our source release plans and how the above debugger integration works, please check out this Podcast that Scott Hanselman and Shawn Burke recently recorded.  Shawn (who drove the source project on my team) is also going to be publishing a cool Channel9 video later this week that shows using the VS 2008 integrated debugging support with it.

Doga