ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Building a Dynamic Data Application

Before we start building a sample application, we need something to build. In the spirit of keeping things simple so that we can focus this chapter solely on dynamic data, the application must also be simple.

We call it ZombiePedia, a website for cataloguing the appearances of various zombies. This way, during the zombie apocalypse, we can all hit ZombiePedia from our smart phones to log zombies we’ve seen and look up repeat zombies to find their vital statistics. After all, we need to know if we can touch a zombie with bare hands or if it’s a virus carrier, don’t we?

Without dynamic data, we would have to hand-code the page that displays the list of zombie sightings, the sighting detail and edit forms, the ...