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September 2011 - Posts

September 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit
I’m happy to announce the release of the September 2011 Ajax Control Toolkit. This release has several important new features including: Date ranges – When using the Calendar extender, you can specify a start and end date and a user can pick only those dates which fall within the specified range. This was the fourth top-voted feature request for the Ajax Control Toolkit at CodePlex. Twitter Control – You can use the new Twitter control to display recent tweets associated with a particular Twitter user or tweets which match a search query. Gravatar Control – You can use the new Gravatar control to display a unique image for each user of your website. Users can upload custom images to the Gravatar.com website or the Gravatar control can display...
New Tools and New Content - ASP.NET, Visual Studio 11 Web and .NET 4.5 Developer Preview (with commentary)
While all of you Build attendees are making me feel bad because you have a fancy Tablet and I don't (sell me yours!) the folks over here in the "Angle Brackets Team" (I'm trying out some new names. One will stick.) have been busy. Here is a summary of all the items from our team that have been announced and shown at Build this week, all of this will be publicly available today (9/16) along with a some narrative and asides from yours truly. They are listening One of the things I am am personally enjoying in working daily with this build of Visual Studio is that there's dozens (hundreds) of little "mental speed bumps" that are smoothed over. A lot of thought was put into workflow and common scenarios in order to...
NuGet Package of the Week #10 - New Mobile View Engines for ASP.NET MVC 3, spec-compatible with ASP.NET MVC 4
I did some basic mobile view engine work for ASP.NET MVC for Mix in 2009 and then created what I thought was a better ASP.NET MVC Mobile ViewEngine in 2010 . Unfortunately, the second one (the "better" one) had a caching bug that only showed itself in Release mode. This last month, Jon, John, Peter and I updated NerdDinner to MVC 3 with Razor and a pile of other new features . One of those new features was jQuery Mobile support and that meant we need to fix this bad Mobile View Engine. Additionally, ASP.NET MVC 4 will include actual supported Mobile Views support , so the pressure was on. However, we wanted to make sure any new MVC 3 Mobile View sample was mostly compatible with whatever scheme ASP.NET MVC 4 uses. The original folder...
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