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Syncfusion’s ASP.NET MVC user interface controls
User Interface Edition for ASP.NET MVC

• Create high performance AJAX Web applications with ease
• Now supports MVC 3 Razor Engine

Jump start your ASP.NET MVC application with the market leader. Components developed with speed, AJAX and client side interaction in mind. Experience the difference.

Essential Grid

Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC is a lightweight, AJAX-enabled, high-performance grid component built especially to suit the programming model of the ASP.NET MVC framework. It has a rich feature set that includes hierarchies, grouping, sorting, paging, data binding, editing, filtering, and several built-in styles.
Essential Grid is designed for performance and can easily handle millions of records. AJAX is extensively used to reduce traffic—only the required data is sent between the client and server, minimizing data transfer and response time.

Essential Tools

Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC is a collection of lightweight, AJAX-enabled, professional user interface components built especially to suit the programming model of the ASP.NET MVC framework. It contains a comprehensive set of components including tree views, tabs, rich-text editors, accordions, sliders, masked-edit text boxes, numeric text boxes, AutoComplete text boxes, generic drop-downs, menus, and date pickers.
A unique feature of Essential Tools is that several controls—including accordions, date pickers, sliders, and tabs—are based on the jQuery JavaScript framework, which is a powerful industry standard. This approach ensures that the components are extremely stable and rich in features. The controls have also been enhanced to enable easy integration into ASP.NET MVC applications. The enhancements also include several new built-in skins in addition to those provided by the jQuery framework.
Also, AJAX is extensively used to reduce traffic between the client and the server; this minimizes data transfer and response time.
Some of our MVC controls like Rating and File Upload use HTML 5 to provide a truly rich user experience.

Essential Chart

Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC is a high-performance charting component that is very easy to use and is also visually stunning. It includes 35 chart types ranging from simple column charts to specialized financial charts. The charts are also highly customizable and have a powerful data model which makes data binding simple.

Essential Diagram

Essential Diagram is an extensible, high-performance .NET diagramming framework built on HTML 5 for ASP.NET MVC applications. It can be used for developing Microsoft Visio-like interactive graphics and diagramming applications. It stores graphical objects in a node graph and renders those objects on the screen. It supports both vector and raster graphics on the drawing surface.

Essential Gauge

Essential Gauge for ASP.NET MVC contains radial, digital, rolling, and linear gauge controls. All gauges are visually stunning and behave like real gauges. The appearance is also very customizable in that all the elements in the gauge—including scales, ticks, and labels—can be fully tailored to your needs.

Essential Schedule

Essential Schedule for ASP.NET MVC is an Outlook Calendar-like Scheduler control that lets you add rich scheduling capabilities to your Web applications. It includes an advanced set of features including data binding, multiple resource views, rich interactivity, support for AJAX, client-side events, and much more.

Essential PDF Viewer

Essential PDF Viewer is a 100% managed .NET component that will have the ability to view and print PDF files from your WPF and Windows Forms applications. This feature supports exporting PDF files to various image formats such as, BMP, JPEG and PNG.

ASP.NET MVC 2 RC is released today

Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC 2 is released today.

Brief Description

ASP.NET MVC 2 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The framework encourages developers to maintain a clear separation of concerns among the responsibilities of the application – the UI logic using the view, user-input handling using the controller, and the domain logic using the model. ASP.NET MVC applications are easily testable using techniques such as test-driven development (TDD).

The installation package includes templates and tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 to increase productivity when writing ASP.NET MVC applications. For example, the Add View dialog box takes advantage of customizable code generation (T4) templates to generate a view based on a model object. The default project template allows the developer to automatically hook up a unit-test project that is associated with the ASP.NET MVC application.
 

Because the ASP.NET MVC framework is built on ASP.NET 3.5 SP 1, developers can take advantage of existing ASP.NET features like authentication and authorization, profile settings, localization, and so on.

Installation Notes

The ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 can be downloaded from the following page: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=157071

ASP.NET MVC 2 can be installed and can run side-by-side with ASP.NET MVC 1.0.

Note:  Because Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 share a component of ASP.NET MVC 2, installing the ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate release on a computer where Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is also installed is not supported.

Documentation

Documentation for ASP.NET MVC 2, which includes tutorials, technology overviews, code samples, and API reference, is available on the MSDN Web site. A good starting point is the ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) topic (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=159758).

Tutorials and other information about ASP.NET MVC are also available on the ASP.NET Web sitehttp://www.asp.net/mvc/.

What’s Next?

RTM of course! The RTM release of ASP.NET MVC will be included in the RTM release of Visual Studio 2010, which is slated for some time in March. The VS2008 version of ASP.NET MVC 2 might release earlier than that. We’re still working out those details.

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Microsoft Day @ Dhaka – 20June 2009

Microsoft Day @ Dhaka

Microsoft Community in Bangladesh proudly presents Microsoft Day @ Dhaka. This is a special day dedicated to all Microsoft technology professionals and students in Bangladesh. We will be having the best Microsoft community technologists from Bangladesh - Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) delivering sessions at the event. This technology marathon is a great opportunity to learn from the best and network with each other.

Both Microsoft developers and networking professionals would find the event worth attending.

The event will also feature a demo bonanza with Windows 7 and an extensive Question and Answer panel with the Bangladesh MVPs to answer your queries.

Microsoft Day @ Dhaka

Venue: IDB Auditorium, E/8-A Rokeya Sharani, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Agargaon, Dhaka 1207

AUDITORIUM – Developer Track

9:00	9:30	Opening Speech	Feroz Mahmood & Abhishek Kant
9:30	10:30	Development in ASP.NET	Tanzim Saqib
10:30	11:15	My First ASP.NET MVC App	Mehfuz HossainMVP
11:15	11:45	Unit Testing in MVC and Deo of dotnetshoutouts.com	Kazi Manzur RashidMVP
11:45	12:30	Developing in Silverlight	Faisal Hossain Khan
12:30	1:30	Lunch
1:30	2:00	Introduction to MS Sharepoint Server	MJ Ferdous
2:00	2:45	Production Challenges of ASP.NET Websites	Omar Al ZabirMVP
2:45	3:15	Windows Azure	Ashic Mahtab
3:15	3:45	Tea Break
3:45	4:30	Overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010	Mohammad Ashraful AlamMVP
4:30	5:00	Features of Windows 71	Omi AzadMVP
5:00	5:30	IE8 and Windows Live Features1	Irtija A. Akhter

Meeting Room 2 – IT Professional Track

9:30	10:30	Session on MS Project & EPM	M. Manzurur Rahman
10:30	11:30	Talking Windows Server 2008 and R2	Anwar Hossain
11:30	12:30	Q & A with Microsoft	Anwar Hossain
12:30	1:30	Lunch
1:30	2:00	Network with MVPs
3:15	4:00	Exchange 2010 – Via LiveMeeting	Ismail MohammedMVP
3:00	3:30	Tea Break
3:30	4:30	Introduction to SQL Server 2008 – Via LiveMeeting	Amit BansalMVP

This session is common for Developer Track and IT Pro Track

For more details, visit: Microsoft Developer Network Bangladesh