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 working.  I think it's great the Microsoft is being this transparent with their ...

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.  As always you can run through the live demos of the controls here.  This release ...

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, on which me mixes news and roadmaps for the products he oversees with technical ...

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

The Fall 2007 DevConnections conference is next week in Las Vegas.  This is definitely going to be the biggest conference in the United States for developers for the second half of 2007 (TechEd being the only larger one this year, I think), and I'm sure the show will be bolstered significantly due to a lack of a PDC event this year.  ...

A little while ago, Scotts Guthrie and Hanselman presented on MVC in ASP.NET (and Dynamic Languages) at the oddly named ALT.NET conference in Texas.  I'm with ScottH that ''Alt'' is a pretty silly name and something like Agile or Pragmatic would be a much better descriptor.  Alternative is not terribly descriptive since anything that ...

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The wait for Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX is finally over.  The folks who camped outside of bookstores all night to be the first ones to own these beauties were  rewarded today.  Shortages were reported in some parts of the country as mobs of excited .NET developers made the iPhone launch seem like just another over-hyped gadget for ...

I found out that I should be speaking at the DevConnections show this fall.  The show is being held in Las Vegas again, November 5–8th.  I apologize to anybody that had hoped to see me present last month in Orlando at the spring show – I was unfortunately out of the country due to circumstances beyond my control (but which ...

Lake Quincy Media, which I co-own, has announced initial availability of its new online promotion management software, AdSignia.  Lake Quincy Media specializes in the promotion of products and services of interest to our network of dozens of Microsoft developer community web sites.  AdSignia has been something I’ve been working on ...