App_data is a special directory

App_Data is a special directory in ASP.NET which already has the correct security access permissions for database access.

Microsoft SQL Server versions for Developers

SQL Server Compact Edition
SQL Server Express

related concepts: LocalDb

auto-implemented properties

The {get;set;} notation is making use of C#'s auto-implemented properties feature. This gives us the benefits of a property without requiring us to declare a backing field.

Entity Framework (EF) is really just a load of T4

(aka .tt files)
See: T4 Templates and the Entity Framework by Scott Allen , January 2011
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg558520.aspx

MVC 3 Template Comparison: INTERNET vs INTRANET

Apparently, the INTRANET template just doesn't create the ACCOUNT model at all.

Entity Framework

• Databases are meant to manage changes to data.

• Object designs are meant to manage changes to requirements.

2012 stuff, HTML5 shims

Modernizr adopted by Microsoft to deal with HTML 5 in pre-IE9.

Polyfill is what we called code to handle cross-browser issues with HTML5.

HTML5 shiv is a kind of shim.

WebSocket takes place of what apparently we called Comet but I had thought of just a form of AJAX. In any case, combine that with surfing on a tablet or phone, and might as well say sayonara to the Web As We Knew It.