Release today are four new screencasts about the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions by various members of the ASP.NET team. You can get them immediately at the same page as before, at the bottom: http://www.asp.net/Downloads/3.5-extensions/ . Every video is available in numerous formats, and note that this also includes re-encoded versions of my Intro to MVC Screencast in a pile of formats including an iPod/iTouch compatible format , as well as ones for the Zune and PSP and a utterly unwatchable ;) 40 meg 3GP one for 3G Phones . We also have included Audio-Only downloads in five different formats, so complain not, Dear Reader! We've got your back. I expect to wait less than 5 minutes before my first snarky reader lives the obligatory " what about Ogg...

We found that  the Dynamic Data preview has a pretty nasty caching bug that prevents updates from showing up in some foreign key scenarios.  Marcin has posted a fix on his blog , so if you run into this, please check it out. Read More...

As I mentioned last month , VS 2008 fully supports building applications for .NET Framework 2.0... This is very important as it will take time for some hosters and IT organizations to fully deploy .NET Framework 3.5, but you don't want that to block you from taking full advantage of the cool features in VS 2008 . Today we released ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates for VS2008 . This release contains project templates for using Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer 2008 to create new web sites and web applications with ASP.NET AJAX Extensions features. The project templates contain specific references to assemblies in .NET Framework 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0. Download the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates for VS2008 ! To try these out, make...

Kzu and friends have a new pet project called Moq , which may be the coolest derivative open source project name ever. But, before I get into that... There's lots of interesting Mock Object Frameworks out there. The ones that you'll always hear about (because they are awesome) are Rhino.Mocks and TypeMock ( Full Disclosure: we used TypeMock at Corillian, my last job. Here's a Case Study that was done. ) Both frameworks are very powerful. Here's Phil Haack's post on mocking IHttpRequest and IHttpReponse in the new MVC Framework using Rhino Mocks . Here's Travis Illig using TypeMock to mock the actual HttpContext (not the MVC interface) earlier this year . One of the things that often comes up when comparing Mock Frameworks, after their core capabilities...

Simone Chiaretta is trying to gather some informal data on Ajax usage among .NET Developers . It is a very quick, four question survey… Simone mentioned he would be publishing the results on his blog shortly. Please click Here to take survey . Read More...

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Creating an Outlook Navigation Bar using the ListView and Accordion Controls : Matt Berseth has a nice sample that describes how to implement an Outlook-like navigation menu using the new ASP.NET 3.5 ListView server control and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit's Accordion control. What is New in the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview : Brad Abrams blogs some samples that show off the new <asp:MediaPlayer> Silverlight control, as well as the built-in history management with the <asp:ScriptManager> control.  ASP.NET AJAX ASP.NET AJAX SliderExtender Layout...

My ninety-second podcast is up . In this episode, I chat with Paul Vick , Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz , a Senior Program Manager on the VB Team about the past, present and future of Visual Basic. Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show ACTION: Please vote for us on Podcast Alley ! Digg us at Digg Podcasts ! If you have trouble downloading, or your download is slow, do try the torrent with µtorrent or another BitTorrent Downloader. Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts , a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show. Telerik is our sponsor for this show. Check out their UI Suite of controls for ASP.NET . It's very hardcore stuff. One of the things I appreciate about...

We had a group of customers (and potential) customers out to campus earlier this week and I was asked to give a talk about how to leverage ASP.NET and Silverlight to build a media centric site. I demo'ed the latest version of MySilverlightTV with a couple of new twists. The full slides and demo are available This uses VS2008 Express (free), Silverlight 1.0 and ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP Please feel free to use any of these concepts, slides and demos that you find valuable. Read More...

Now that ScottGu blogged about it , we have received a number of great feedback and questions.  I'll try to answer some them here.   Will this work with MVC? In this initial Preview, Dynamic Data is mostly targeting 'standard' ASP.NET pages, but we are absolutely planning to support Dynamic Data for MVC.  And the good news is that you can actually try this today!  To do this: Download the MVC Toolkit from http://asp.net/downloads/3.5-extensions/ This has a VS solution which contains a sample Blog project that uses Dynamic Data with MVC. This was completely unadvertised, so most folks probably didn't see it, but it's in there for you to play with!  Start by just running it, and then look through the...

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP we shipped this past weekend contains a bunch of great new features. One of the cool new features is something we call "ASP.NET Dynamic Data Support".  In a nutshell this enables you to really quickly build data driven web-sites that work against a LINQ to SQL (and in the future LINQ to Entities) object model - and optionally allows you to-do this without having to build any pages manually. The best way to see this in action is to watch David Ebbo's awesome 17 minute screen-cast : You can also follow the steps below to easily get started and use the dynamic data support: Step 1: Create a ASP.NET Dynamic Data Site: Once you have the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP release installed, you can use VS 2008...