Robert Boedigheimer's .NET Blog

DevLink 2009 (more)

robertb — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:06:00 GMT

I will be giving an additional presentation at DevLink 2009:

ASP.NET Request Processing

AJAXWorld East 2009

robertb — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:18:00 GMT

I will be giving the following presentation at AJAXWorld East:

Internet Explorer 8 and its Impact on Your Web Sites

ugMix Event in Mpls

robertb — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:05:00 GMT

If you missed Mix 09 in Vegas, there is a great opportunity in Minneapolis on May 8 to see the highlights including details on Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3. After that you can stay for the premiere of the new Star Trek movie! Check out Jeff Brands blog entry for details and a link to register.

DevLink 2009

robertb — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:42:00 GMT

I will be giving one of my favorite talks at the DevLink 2009 conference:

Things Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know

ASP.NET MVP 2009

robertb — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:10:00 GMT

I was recently told that I received the ASP.NET MVP award for 2009. I really enjoy participating in the ASP.NET community and the opportunity to contribute.

Developer Summit 2009

robertb — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:25:00 GMT

Here are some more details about my upcoming talks at the Developer Summit 2009 in Stockholm.

Jumpstart Your Web Site with ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Do you need to get a web site setup quickly? Why code all the pages yourself when you can use the ASP.NET Dynamic Data to build the initial pages based on your data schema? This new feature creates the .aspx pages for you based on your data. The pages can be used directly, or you can customize the pages to add your own look and feel.

You can augment the data model for the site to include information that can automatically create the necessary validation controls! Included are a set of Field Template controls that are user controls to edit particular types of data, these can be customized once and apply to all page templates used on the site. Don't start with nothing when you need to create a new site, take advantage of the ASP.NET Dynamic Data support to have a functional site very quickly and simply customize it to get a great site!

Things Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know

There are many things you need to know to be a good ASP.NET developer. Do you understand the basics of HTTP? Do you know what a request and response look like "on the wire"? Do you take advantage of HTTP compression and expirations to reduce bandwidth and requests to your web site? Benefit from many years of experience with web development and discover features, tools, and techniques that you may have never used before. Utilize response filters and adapters to modify the output of your pages. There will be a wide variety of useful tips that can be taken and used today on your ASP.NET web sites.

It looks to be a great conference with very cutting edge content on Silverlight 3.0, ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, Cloud Computing, and some very practical sessions as well.

Cornerstone Developer Summit 2009

robertb — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:15:00 GMT

I will be giving two presentations at the Cornerstone Developer Summit 2009:

Jumpstart Your Web Site with ASP.NET Dynamic Data
Things Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know

BenkoTIPS Live and On Demand Webcast: Internet Explorer 8 for Developers

robertb — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:08:00 GMT

Mike Benkovich and I will be doing a webcast on Internet Explorer 8 for Developers on April 8, 2009 at 9am PST

Wrox Blox - Internet Explorer 8 and its Impact on Your ASP.NET Web Sites

robertb — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:52:00 GMT

My WroxBlox eBook on IE 8 is now available

This Wrox Blox demonstrates how standards compliance in Internet Explorer 8 will impact your Web sites. It will teach you how to immediately ensure visitors to your sites have a positive experience using IE 8, while also giving you time to test your site or make any necessary changes. The IE 8 browser will undoubtedly cause many current web sites to render or behave incorrectly, since so many web sites were either developed prior to modern web standards, or without consideration for standards. In addition, many Web developers used non-standard techniques in order to get their sites to work properly in older versions of browsers.

There are several new features in IE 8 designed to drive traffic to your Web site. Accelerators provide the ability to highlight content on a web page and perform an action on it. How often have you selected an address on a web page, copied it, and then pasted it into the proper fields of a mapping Web site? In IE 8 you can select the address and use a mapping accelerator to quickly display that address on a map. By creating your own accelerators, you can provide this feature to save users time and bring them to your site. Web slices are similar to RSS feeds, but let you subscribe to content directly within a web page. Your users can easily determine that new content exists, and it is easy for content creators to setup.

IE 8 compliance with CSS provides several improvements with support for pseudo classes, counters, and the selectors API. The pseudo classes “:before” and “:after” can be used to add content to web pages from within a stylesheet. CSS counters are perfect for content that needs to be numbered, without requiring the numbers to be embedded in the content. The selectors API utilizes CSS selectors in JavaScript to locate elements rather than traversing the DOM tree.

AJAX has been growing in popularity and is used on many web sites, but it also introduces some problems. Changes made on the client are not recognized, so the browser back and forward buttons don’t work as expected. IE 8 provides a mechanism to use AJAX without losing the typical navigation experience. AJAX developers often want to utilize content from 3rd party web sites, but current browser implementations block this due to security concerns. IE 8 includes a new object and technique to enable these cross domain calls.

IE 8 will certainly impact web developers with its strict support for existing standards, which will cause many existing sites to render and behave incorrectly. It also provides many new features that can be used to simplify creation of web sites and increase productivity.

VSLive San Francisco 2009

robertb — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:37:00 GMT

I will be giving the following presentations at VSLive San Francisco 2009:

Do you want to save $500 on your VSLive! Plus Package registration? If you do, just use the registration code NS9F12 when you register at https://center.uoregon.edu/conferences/redmondevents/vslive/vssf09/registration/reg_general_discount.php!

MSDN Developer Conference 2009

robertb — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:30:00 GMT

I had one more session I was asked to do for the MSDN Developer Conference 2009:

ASP.NET and JQuery
JQuery is an open source JavaScript library that has a passionate following among Ajax developers. Microsoft is integrating the open source JQuery library into both the ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC frameworks and providing full product support. Learn how you can take advantage of JQuery to build richly interactive client-side Ajax applications when developing either ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC applications. Also see how JQuery works in combination with ASP.NET AJAX to provide the best framework for building Ajax applications.

Free Software for all DevTeach Attendees!!

robertb — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:07:00 GMT

A note from the conference organizer:

Every attendee will get Visual Studio 2008 Pro, Expression Web 2 and Tech-Ed DEV set in their bag!

DevTeach believes that all developers need the right tool to be productive. This is what we will give you, free software, when you register to DevTeach or SQLTeach. Yes that right! We're pleased to announce that we're giving over a 1000$ of software when you register to DevTeach. You will find in your conference bag a version of Visual Studio 2008 Professional, ExpressionTM Web 2 and the Tech-Ed Conference DVD Set. Is this a good deal or what? DevTeach and SQLTeach are really the training you can't get any other way.

DevWeek 2009

robertb — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:55:00 GMT

I will be giving the following presentations at DevWeek 2009:

Things every ASP.NET developer should know
Extending ASP.NET web sites with “Web 2.0” features
Exploiting the ASP.NET adapter architecture
Jumpstart your web site with ASP.NET Dynamic Data

MSDN Developer Conference

robertb — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:52:00 GMT

I will be giving the following at the MSDN Developer Conference in Minneapolis:

Building Business-Focused Applications using Silverlight 2
What if you could develop your solutions with the ease pioneered by Microsoft Office Access, deploy them like an Internet application, and take advantage of the power of Microsoft .NET? Learn about an exciting new technology that is all about making business applications for RIA (Rich Internet Applications) much easier to build. In this session, hear how we've made n-tier application development as simple as traditional 2-tier, provided application level solutions to developers, and how we're doing all of this with the same .NET platform and tools on both the client and server.

Web Builder 2.0 Las Vegas 2008

robertb — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:24:00 GMT

I will be giving two presentations at Web Builder 2.0: