Common reactions to ASP.NET 2.0
Fritz Onion, the wonderfully named author of such books as Essential ASP.NET, blogged yesterday about some common reactions to claims of '70% code reduction' in ASP.NET 2.0. In his experience, the common reactions are:
- Oh my gosh, I no longer have to write code to build my site - will I still have a job after this product ships?
- Excellent! Now I can stop building all of that drudgery code and focus on more important aspects of my application!
- Great, now everyone will think he/she can build a scalable web site with a database backend without writing a line of code. I'm going to have to spend the rest of my professional life fixing sites that claim to be efficient and scalable that were built with drag-and-drop sans code!
Obviously Fritz takes the more optimisic view of Reaction #2 above, and his blog entry shows a very good example underpinning his enthusiasm. It shows the implementation of a standard login page in ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0, and introduces the ASP.NET 2.0 provider model on the way.