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Monday, April 28, 2008 12:24 PM

DevConnections Spring Slides and Demos

Last week I gave three presentations at the DevConnections spring show in Orlando. I received a lot of great feedback from attendees which I definitely appreciate, especially since I was feeling a little bit bad about having run out of time in my first
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:38 PM

ASP.NET AJAX Download Performance Improvement Request

I'm a big fan of ASP.NET AJAX in general, but one concern I have and something that has forced me to use other technologies is the size of the library. It's about 85kb when compressed and unfortunately that is quite large if you're trying to include it
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:26 PM

Extract Control for ASP.NET in Visual Studio

I've been posting about some feature requests for ASP.NET/ Visual Studio , so here's one more in that thread. One nice feature of Blend is the ability to select a chunk of XAML and choose to "Extract User Control". The result works very nicely, creating
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Monday, March 31, 2008 11:15 AM

LINQ and the new DevExpress Grid

Mehul has a couple of screencasts up on his blog that demonstrate how to use their new LINQ datasource to do optimized paging/updating of their ASPxGridView control . At just over 2 minutes, the screencast does a very good job of showing how easy it is
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Friday, March 21, 2008 11:49 AM

MVC Source Code Available

The ASP.NET MVC library's source code has been made available on CodePlex , ScottGu announced today . The project itself is still very much a work in progress, but with this you should be able to get a much better idea of how everything is laid out and
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 4:24 PM

Three Requests for ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010

I have three things that have been on my wish list for ASP.NET and/or Visual Studio that I'm curious to know what others think. I've mentioned some of these before on my blog or elsewhere - they're not exactly earth shattering and I'm not saying that
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:20 PM

Software Design Best Practices Debate

I've been following the discussion on Phil Haack's blog surrounding how best to introduce polymorphic objects into the MVC framework as part of the framework's interface for developers to work with. In .NET, there are basically two ways one can build
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Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:07 PM

AJAX Control Toolkit Update Released

Yesterday (Leap Day), the Ajax Control Toolkit team released an update to the toolkit . This release comes in two flavors, one for the 3.5 framework (which has AJAX baked into ASP.NET 3.5) and one for the AJAX 1.0 release that is an add-on to ASP.NET.
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:22 PM

Scott Guthrie Promoted to Corporate Vice President

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced a number of promotions, among them Scott Guthrie , who is now Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Division ( executive profile - promotion press release ). Many of you know Scott from his extremely popular blog
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:05 PM

Finding Untitled Page Titles

Sadly, Microsoft decided that with the addition of the Title attribute on the @Page directive, it would make sense to include it by default with some text that one would absolutely never want to use as the title, "Untitled Page". They could
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:09 PM

CodeMash Hanselman IIS Talk

I'm at CodeMash today and Scott Hanselman gave the afternoon keynote on IIS7 mashups. The talk was preceded by a very funny introduction Scott gave that introduced me to the LOLCode.NET language with the help of some LOLCats and humorous sample code.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:26 AM

Trends in Programming Languages

Al Pascual wrote about some trends he noticed using Google Trend , with regard to different programming languages. It's an interesting tool, since it can be used to gauge general interest in particular keywords and search terms, as well as news, going
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Friday, January 04, 2008 12:22 PM

SimpleCMS for IIS7

SimpleCMS is a (very) simple content management system I developed with Brendan for ASPAlliance.com and which is now available from CodePlex (with source). Steve Schofield recently put it to work in IIS7, a scenario we have not yet tested ourselves, and
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:36 PM

Fall DevConnections Session Comments

I've been speaking at the DevConnections conferences since Fall of 2001 and have really enjoyed the experience. The speakers are a great group of people to hang out with, Shirley and Erik and Paul and the rest of the team put together a very well-organized
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:10 PM

MVC and ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview Available Now

A couple of days later than expected, but the bits are available now as Brad Abrams announced a little while ago. Read his post for all the goodies, or just Download , Get Started , and Discuss Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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