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Building Single Page Apps on the Microsoft Stack

Thank you everyone who came to my talk last night on Building Single Page Apps on the Microsoft Stack. I’ve attached the slides and code samples below. Here’s a quick summary of the talk. I argued that Single Page Apps are better than traditional Server Side Apps because: Single Page Apps are Stateful – In [...] Read More...

ASP.NET Connections Spring 2012 Talks and Code

Thank you everyone who attended my ASP.NET Connections talks last week in Las Vegas. I’ve attached the slides and code for the three talks that I delivered:   Using jQuery to interact with the Server through Ajax – In this talk, I discuss the different ways to communicate information between browser and server using Ajax. [...] Read More...

ASP.NET Connections Fall 2011 Slides and Code

Thanks everyone who came to my talks at ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas! There was a definite theme to my talks this year…taking advantage of JavaScript to build a rich presentation layer. I gave the following three talks: JsRender Templates – Originally, I was scheduled to give a talk on jQuery Templates. However, jQuery Templates has been deprecated and JsRender is the new technology which replaces jQuery Templates. In the talk, I give plenty of code samples of using JsRender. You can download the slides and code samples RIGHT HERE HTML5 – In this talk, I focused on the features of HTML5 which are the most interesting to developers building database-driven Web applications. In particular, I discussed Web Sockets, Web workers, Web Storage...

Sample Code and Slides from DevConnection Germany

Thank you everyone who came to my three talks this week at DevConnections Germany! I really enjoyed my time in Karlsruhe. Here are the slides and sample code for the three talks: jQuery Templates In this talk, I discuss how you can take advantage of jQuery templates when building both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC applications. I demonstrate several advanced features of templates such as wrapped templates and remote templates. Download the slides Download the code HTML5 In this talk, I discuss the features of HTML5 which matter most when building database-driven web applications. I demonstrate WebSockets, Web Workers, Web Storage, IndexedDB, and Offline Web Applications. Download the slides Download the code jQuery + OData In this talk,...

jQuery Templates Talk Slides and Code

Thank you everyone who came to my talk yesterday at ASP.NET Connections on jQuery Templates. Click the link at the end of this blog entry to download the slides and code. Some of the more interesting code samples include: RemoteBetter.aspx – Demonstrates how to get Intellisense when creating a template by placing the template in an external user control. TemplateControl.aspx – Demonstrates how to get Intellisense when creating a template by using a custom ASP.NET ClientTemplate control. CRUD.aspx – Demonstrates how to create a Web Forms applications that uses jQuery Templates and WCF services to make a Create, Read, Update, Delete database-driven Movie application. Download the Slides and Code Read More...

jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Validate Sample Code

Thank you everyone who attended my half-day workshop on jQuery and ASP.NET at ASP.NET Connections in Florida! You can download the slide deck and all of the code from the workshop by clicking the link at the bottom of this blog post. There are about 40 code samples that demonstrate a wide range of jQuery features including selectors, events, animation, Ajax, jQuery UI, the templates plugin, the data-link plugin, the globalization plugin, and the jQuery validate plugin. Here is a description of some of the more interesting code samples: 2_Ajax\2_PageMethod.aspx – Demonstrates how you can call a Web Forms page method using jQuery 2_Ajax\5_OData.aspx – Demonstrates how to call the Netflix.com odata service using jQuery to retrieve movie information...

Special 48-Hour Offer: Free ASP.NET MVC 3 Video Training

The Virtual ASP.NET MVC Conference (MVCConf) happened earlier today.  Several thousand developers attended the event online, and had the opportunity to watch 27 great talks presented by the community. All of the live presentations were recorded, and videos of them will be posted shortly so that everyone can watch them (for free).  I’ll do a blog post with links to them once they are available. Special Pluralsight Training Available for Next 48 Hours In my MVCConf keynote this morning, I also mentioned a special offer that Pluralsight (a great .NET training partner) is offering – which is the opportunity to watch their excellent ASP.NET MVC 3 Fundamentals course free of charge for the next 48 hours.  This training is 3 hours and...

Ajax Talk at .NET Developers Association

Thanks everyone who came to my Ajax talk tonight at the .NET Developers Association ! The slides and demos from the talk can be downloaded by clicking the following link: ASP.NET Ajax: What’s New? You need Visual Studio 2010 to view the code samples. The first project, named Demos, contains the following samples: ASPAjax4 1_CompositeScripts.aspx – Demonstrates how to use the ScriptManger to combine, compress, and cache JavaScript files automatically. 2_EnableCdn.aspx – Demonstrates how to retrieve ASP.NET Ajax framework scripts from the Microsoft Ajax CDN automatically. jQuery 1_Selectors.aspx – Demonstrates how to use jQuery selectors 2_WebForms.aspx – Demonstrates how to use the client tablesorter plugin with ASP.NET Web Forms. 3_MVC.aspx...

Back from Russia

Thanks everyone who came to my talks on ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC in Moscow last week! Here are the slide decks and demo code for the two talks (You need Visual Studio 2010): What’s New in ASP.NET MVC 2? What’s New in ASP.NET 4 Web Forms? I had a great time in Russia. On the second day, I had an opportunity to walk around Moscow. Here’s a picture of me standing in Red Square: Here’s a picture of me eating Chicken Kiev with Microsoft evangelist James Senior. James has just started his worldwide Web Camp tour to promote ASP.NET 4. He is traveling non-stop country to country. After Russia, he is off to China and Australia. You can find out more about the Web Camps here: http://www.webcamps.ms/ Read More...

ASP.NET in Moscow!

I’m traveling to Russia and speaking in Moscow next week at the DevConf. This will be the first time that I have visited Russia, and I know that there is a strong ASP.NET community in Russia, so I am very excited about the trip. I’m speaking at the DevConf ( http://www.devconf.ru/ ). I don’t speak Russian, so the only words that I recognize off the home page of the conference website are ASP.NET and JavaScript (PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby must be Russian words). I’m giving talks on both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC: What’s New in ASP.NET 4 Web Forms Learn about the new features just released with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms and Visual Studio 2010 that enable you to be more productive and build better websites. Learn how to take control of your...