Deltabatch

Deltabatch It’s very easy to be swept away by the excitement and expectations that attend the advent of breakthrough technology. Deltabatch Indeed, most of us in this audience – at least those of us who earn their living with Microsoft products, I suspect, are having vague feelings of deja vu lately since msxml.dll is the second Deltabatch breakthrough component to come out of Redmond in as many years (asp.dll, of course, being the first). Actually I think the word “empowering” better serves to describe both ASP and XML. Deltabatch Microsoft has produced some landmark enabling technologies for years; Windows, Exchange, SQL Server and others. But none of these technologies empowers users to do things Deltabatch they couldn’t do before the way ASP and XML have and will.Still, it’s too easy to be swept away by impassioned speakers and marketing hype.There remains, at the end of the day, a pressing Deltabatch and practical need to apply something like XML. It’s up to each one of us in this audience to take these new assets of ASP and XML and breath life into them, to show them off to the world as Deltabatch models of personal power and creativity. Along the way, I believe we, as a group, have a moral imperative to divine the “best practices” in the use of both. That is the mission of this first talk. I want Deltabatch to show you what I’ve been up to for about eighteen months. This stuff isn’t glamorous. It isn’t something to write home about, and that’s the point: this stuff is essential XML, the stuff we Deltabatch want to be able to take for granted as quickly as possible.It’s often said that one of Microsoft’s biggest competitors are the previous versions of it products. In our case as ASP/XML Deltabatch developers, the problem we face is that over the years our customers and colleagues have Deltabatch come to take for granted user interface patterns that they expect to see in any application we write today, regardless of the product we use to develop those applications. Applications that fail Deltabatch to meet these expectations are like toothpaste manufacturers who continue to use tubes with screw-on caps: nobody is impressed.The spreadsheet metaphor is perhaps the most ubiquitous Deltabatch of these UI patterns, but close behind are more granular patterns like drop down boxes, dynamic user interfaces where changing one field automatically changes others. Functionality Deltabatch like sorting (implemented by clicking column headings) and filtering are also taken for granted by our customers.But we as developers can’t take them for granted.In the next ninety minutes Deltabatch I want to walk you through the growing collection of user interface patterns I’ve built. Of course by the time these written remarks are actually spoken, only God knows what else I will have Deltabatch discovered, so I reserve the right at this writing to change the patterns I will now discuss.