Traditional .NET development frameworks tend to be big, and cover all possible eventualities, and for many projects this is A Good Thing. But for just as many, if not more, projects, a full web stack like ASP.NET or a complex ORM like Entity Framework or NHibernate is just overkill, and adds unnecessary complexity. This is A Bad Thing.
In this talk, Mark will look at some of the smaller, more focussed frameworks, libraries and tools, and how to use them to create applications with less code, less cruft and fewer maintenance headaches.
For web applications, Mark will look at WebMatrix, with its page-oriented approach to web applications, and Nancy, .NET's answer to Ruby's ultra-lightweight Sinatra framework.
For data access, Mark will look at Fluent NHibernate and Entity Framework Code-First, and my own Simple.Data library.
Using these tools, in one hour, Mark will create two versions of the same site, and then marvel at how we probably couldn't have created it once using the more traditional stacks.
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