A quick look at ASP.Net Dynamic Data

Frank Wang's inspirations on .NET - First look at ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview

"A major upgrade to the ASP.NET Dynamic Data was released on April 8th, 2008. This release is named ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview. ASP.NET Dynamic Data allows you to automatically render fully functional data entry and reporting pages that are dynamically constructed from your ORM data model meta-data (LINQ to SQL or LINQ to Entities object model).  In addition to supporting a dynamic rendering mode, it also allows you to optionally override and customize any of the view templates using any HTML or code you want.

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This is one of those technologies I think I'm going to "want and see" on (but still keep an eye open for). On the surface it kind of seems like "demo-ware," the stuff we saw when ASP.Net first came out, etc, etc. But that might just be my age talking (i.e. been there, done that, burned once, got the t-shirt, etc)... Then again the stuff coming from Microsoft recently seems, again on the surface, like some older stuff warmed over, but as you look closer you see that they have learned from their past lessons and are now closer to getting it "right". The ASP.Net Dynamic Data maybe something like that...

Anyway it's worth keeping an eye on at least... :)