ASP.NET Dynamic Data
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ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a Ruby on Rails
-inspired web application
scaffolding
framework from Microsoft
, shipped as an extension to ASP.NET
, that can be used to build data driven web applications. It exposes tables in a database
by encoding it in the URI
of the ASP.NET
web service, and the data in the table is automatically rendered to HTML
. The process of rendering can be controlled using custom design template
s. Internally, it discovers the database schema
by using the database metadata
.
ASP.NET Dynamic Data was originally shipped as part of the "ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions" package in 2007, and was incorporated into the .NET Framework
3.5 Service Pack 1, which was released August 11, 2008.
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...
-inspired web application
Web application
A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...
scaffolding
Scaffold (programming)
Scaffolding is a meta-programming method of building database-backend software applications. It is a technique supported by some model-view-controller frameworks, in which the programmer may write a specification that describes how the application database may be used...
framework from Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
, shipped as an extension to ASP.NET
ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...
, that can be used to build data driven web applications. It exposes tables in a database
Database
A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
by encoding it in the URI
Úri
Úriis a village and commune in the comitatus of Pest in Hungary....
of the ASP.NET
ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...
web service, and the data in the table is automatically rendered to HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
. The process of rendering can be controlled using custom design template
Template processor
A template processor is software or a software component that is designed to combine one or moretemplates with a data model to produceone or more result documents...
s. Internally, it discovers the database schema
Database schema
A database schema of a database system is its structure described in a formal language supported by the database management system and refers to the organization of data to create a blueprint of how a database will be constructed...
by using the database metadata
Metadata
The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
.
ASP.NET Dynamic Data was originally shipped as part of the "ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions" package in 2007, and was incorporated into the .NET Framework
.NET Framework
The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...
3.5 Service Pack 1, which was released August 11, 2008.