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In my last post , I joked that the reason that someone gave me all 1s in my talk was a misunderstanding of the evaluation form. In truth, I just assumed that someone out there really didn’t like what I was showing and that’s totally fine. It was something I found funny and I didn’t really care too much. But I received a message from someone that they tried to evaluate the session from the conference hall, but the evaluation form was really screwy on their iPhone. For example, here’s how it’s supposed to look in IE. I checked it out with Google Chrome which uses WebKit , the same rendering engine that Safari, and thus the iPhone, uses. Here it is (click to see full size). Notice anything different? :) The good news here is that nothing really...
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In SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008, C# introduced a new feature to provide 'live' reporting of compilation errors. Unfortunately, the introduction of this functionality also introduced a bug where in certain cases, false C# compilation errors appear in the Error List for ASP.NET Website projects. Specifically the following is a list of issues you may have experienced due to this bug in SP1: If you have a breakpoint in a code-behind file. On project open, you get incorrect errors in the Error List for that code-behind file (e.g. – button1 is not declared). These errors do not go away until you open that code-behind file. Once you open the code-behind file, the errors go away. When you open a code-behind file,...
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Just arrived back home from a great few days down at PDC in LA. What a fun show to be at - even for people inside the company it's a great opportunity to learn about some of thee great projects going on. I'm really excited about Live Mesh and am looking forward to learning more about Azure and the services it offers. My talk is now available online here , and I've attached my talk materials below. The ChartBuilder demo is available on David's blog along with a nice write up. The response to the Silverlight Toolkit has been VERY positive and you'll be seeing me write more about our plans and what we have going on with that. Read More...
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Source View is the default view for the IDE when you edit a Web page. You can customize the IDE so that Design View is the default. Select the menu option : Tools – > Options… From the Options dialog tree select HTML Designer –> General Select Design...
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The Web Deployment team had a big ‘coming out’ party yesterday at the PDC and announced immediate availability of a new Beta of the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool . MS Deploy - Fundamentals If you aren’t familiar with this tool yet, you’re going to want to take the time to browse the documents and give it a try. It is one of the fundamental building blocks that IIS will be building on the next several years. In it’s current beta form, it can be used to: Migrate entire servers or individual sites from one machine to another (IIS6 –> IIS7) Sync Servers, Sites, and Applications (IIS6 –> IIS6, and IIS7 –> IIS7) Create offline packages that can be used as backups, version control, and deployment units New Beta Features...
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Rico Mariani (Chief Architect of Visual Studio – previously performance architect for .net), Vance Morrison (Performance architect for .net) and Mark Friedman (Architect Lead for the Developer Division of Performance Engineering) had a full day talk at the PDC about performance. Unfortunately recordings are probably not going to be available since this was done at the pre-conference, but Vance posted all the slides they used on his blog . Performance by Design Intro – Rico Mariani Performance by Design CPU – Vance Morrison Performance by Design Memory – Vance Morrison Performance by Design Parallel – Vance Morrison Performance by Design ASP.NET – Mark Friedman Well worth a look, Tess Read More...
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Thank you to everyone who came to my jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX PDC talk! As promised, I've added a link to the demo code from the talk to this blog entry. There are three separate downloads: jQuery Demos -- Contains sample code that demonstrates how to use jQuery selectors, animations, and plug-ins. PhotoGallery Application -- Contains a simple Photo Gallery application in which photos are fetched by making Ajax calls to a web service. Demonstrates using the new Client Side Templates features of ASP.NET AJAX. MovieDatabase Application -- Contains an ASP.NET MVC application that uses jQuery and Ajax. Demonstrates how to build applications that support graceful degradation. This application works with both JavaScript enabled and JavaScript...
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The great folks that work tirelessly behind the scenes here at the PDC have already gotten the Framework Design Guidelines Video posted . http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC58/ Enjoy! Read More...
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Some large-scale Ajax apps and frameworks - the Live Framework and Office 14, both announced at PDC - built using Script#... Read More...
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After the amazing great reception MEF got during ScottGu's keynote yesterday we had tons of people ask about a MEF session. So we are VERY happy to be able to repeat Glenn's MEF session... Please come if you can. TL33-R Managed Extensibility Framework: Overview [REPEAT] Wed 10/29 | 4:45 PM-6:00 PM | 409A Presenter: Glenn Block Glenn Block Please Note: This session is a repeat of TL33, which originally took place on October 27th at 1:45PM. The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new extensibility model in the .NET framework that provides a simple declarative model for application developers and extenders to build openly extensible applications. Come to this session and you'll learn about our Composition model and the...
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