EastBay.NET: A Dip in the SPA (Single Page App in HTML/JavaScript)

MAIN PRESENTATION

A Dip in the SPA: 1st look at a Single Page App in HTML/JavaScript

Ward Bell is steamed up about SPAs (“Single Page Applications”) as he tries to gauge the present and future prospects for HTML business applications. A typical SPA is a single shell whose contents are repeatedly replaced with new and revisited app pages as the user navigates the app. These pages are created and maintained locally by client-side JavaScript. A SPA app in a browser is largely self-sufficient, visiting the remote host only for data and other services.

Gmail and HotMail are two examples of this trend. Ward thinks SPA might be a fruitful architecture for line-of-business applications, apps that rely on local state and cached data for a responsive, fluid user experience. Many familiar desktop patterns and techniques apply here including MVVM, client-side validation, entity caching and change-sets. We’ll soak in some MVC 4, Web API, jQuery, KnockoutJs and Upshot on our trip to the SPA. Prepare to get wet!

Join us for this informative talk.

Ward Bell is the VP Technology of IdeaBlade, a Silverlight MVP, and a well-known speaker.

FUNDAMENTALS

Come a half hour early (6:15 PM) to enjoy our .NET FUNdamentals series:

Create Powerful Reporting Solutions with OData & PowerPivot

In this FUNdamentals sessions Beth Massi will how easy it is to unlock your data using OData to provide easy, powerful, reporting solutions for your information workers using Excel 2010. See how you can create mashups with data from Azure Data Market, SharePoint and more using PowerPivot.

Beth Mass is a Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual Studio BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint as well as Visual Studio LightSwitch. Beth is a community champion for business application developers and is responsible for producing and managing online content and community interaction for the BizApps team. She has over 15 years of industry experience building business applications and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. You can find her on a variety of developer sites including MSDN Developer Centers, Channel 9, and her blog http://www.bethmassi.com/ . Follow her on twitter @BethMassi.