using jquery and wcf to build a better user experience
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Presentation created for Dallas Techfest 2011 at University of Texas, Dallas campus.TRANSCRIPT
THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE
Building A Better User Experience with jQuery and WCF
Jeff Hewitt
Credera
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About the Speaker
Jeff Hewitt
Architect with Credera
http://blogs.credera.com
www.credera.com
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Our Company
– Full-service business and technology consulting firm
– Provide business and technology solutions that offer measurable value to our clients
– Deliver value by leveraging our people’s accumulated industry and management experience with their deep technical expertise
– Established in 1999
– Offices in Dallas, Austin, Denver
Our Services
– Management Consulting
– Technology Solutions
– Business Intelligence
Our People
– Credera’s professionals possess a unique combination of deep technical expertise with extensive business backgrounds
– Backgrounds include business, technology, and strategy management consulting with some of the most well-known and respected consulting firms in the world
– Have served many influential corporations in a variety of industries over the past 20 years
Sample Clients
Credera is a Business and Technology Consulting Firm that Focuses on Leveraging Proven Technologies to Enable our Clients Business Strategy
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Agenda
jQuery – A Brief Introduction
WCF – A Brief Introduction
Demonstrations
– Feature overview demonstration
– Complex demonstration with WCF
Review
Links and Resources
Question & Answer
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jQuery – A Brief Introduction
Designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML
Provides capabilities for developers to create plug-ins on top of JavaScript library
Most popular JavaScript library in use today
Features include
– DOM element selection
– DOM traversal and modification
– Events
– CSS manipulation
– Effects and animations
– AJAX
– Extensibility
– Utilities
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From wikipedia.org - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery
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jQuery – A Brief Introduction (continued…)
jQuery Functions
Usage styles
– Factory Method
– Utility Methods
AJAX
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From wikipedia.org - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery
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WCF – A Brief Introduction
WCF is a framework for building service-oriented applications
Used in several high transaction, high availability Microsoft platforms already
Features include
– Service orientation
– Multiple message patterns
– Service metadata
– Security
– Multiple transports and encodings
– Reliable message queues / durable messages
– Transactions
– AJAX & REST support
– Extensibility
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WCF – A Brief Introduction (continued…)
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From Andrew Tokeley – http://www.andrewtokeley.com
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Demo
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Review
jQuery – A Brief Introduction
WCF – A Brief Introduction
Demonstrations
– Feature overview demonstration
– Full demonstration with WCF and reusable framework
www.credera.com
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Links and Resources
http://blogs.credera.com
Demo application download
Getting started with jQuery and WCF resources
Continued learning resources
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Q&A
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Thank you for attending!
Contact Information:
Jeff Hewitt
www.credera.com
Blog: http://blogs.credera.com/
THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE
Building A Better User Experience with
jQuery and WCF
Jeff Hewitt
Credera
Copyright © 2011 Credera. All Rights Reserved.