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Friends of Web Development Newsletter – June 2006 TechEd '06 TechEd '06 is now officially over and it was so great to see so many developers, ASPInsiders, MVPs and ASP.NET customers at the ASP.NET booth on the Expo/Learning Center floor. For those of you who couldn't attend, don't worry! There's a 'Virtual TechEd' site at http://virtualteched.com/default.aspx where you can view many of the breakout sessions that were recorded and view some other great videos and blogs that will get you as close to the TechEd experience as you can get. So what were some of the Web Development highlights of the conference? Here are just a few: The Microsoft.com operations team gave some very popular talks on how they manage IIS and ASP.NET in a large production...

TechEd '06 TechEd '06 is now officially over and it was so great to see so many developers, MVPs and at the Visual Studio 2005 booth on the Expo/Learning Center floor. For those of you who couldn't attend, don't worry! There's a 'Virtual TechEd' site at http://virtualteched.com/default.aspx where you can view many of the breakout sessions that were recorded and view some other great videos and blogs that will get you as close to the TechEd experience as you can get. Here are a few highlights of what the smart client teams had to show at TechEd Saurabh Pant gave a complete overview of Windows Forms development using new features in Visual Studio 2005, including several great demos. Scott Morrison showed several common Windows Forms development...

Smart Client Development Newsletter – May 2006 Fix that app, darnit! It’s called the ‘White Screen of Darn’ or WSOD for short and it’s trying to tell you something about your app! This whitepaper provides some very useful information on how to take advantage of the information on this screen to get your app back up and on its feet! SQL Everywhere If you’re at TechEd, you can hear about ‘SQL Server Everywhere’ in Steve Lasker’s talk on 6/16. SQL Server Everywhere is an extremely lightweight version of SQL Server that can be deployed the full range of Windows platforms from CE to client and server platforms. So when we say lightweight, how light do we mean? How about slightly more than the size of a floppy disk? This screenshot shows the full...

Friends of Web Development Newsletter – May 2006 Conference News It’s conference season so here’s a summary of what we’re doing at several upcoming conferences. ReMix If you’re in the Southeast Asia area Matt Gibbs will be presenting a talk on “Atlas” at REMIX in Singapore on June 29. Web Design World Brad Abrams , a Group Program Manager in the UI Frameworks team, will be giving the keynote address at Web Design World in Seattle, on July 10-12 th . TechEd 2006 – Boston Do you ‘ Love that Dirty Water? ’ If you do, then make Boston your home June 11-16. The ASP.NET team and a few well-known experts will be presenting 14 sessions covering all of the major new features in ASP.NET 2.0 plus best practices and integration with other popular .NET services...

Friends of Web Development N ews lette r – April 2006 New Releases We ‘showered’ the web with new tool and preview releases in April so let’s highlight some of them: “Atlas” April CTP This month, we released an update to the “Atlas” March CTP that was highlighted at the Mix conference. The “Atlas” April CTP fixes known bugs in the March CTP, including those reported by users on the “Atlas” forums and the MSDN Product Feedback Center . Like the March CTP, the “Atlas” April CTP also features a “Go-Live” license, allowing you to develop applications using Atlas and host them live. Also, don’t forget to enter your app into the “Mash it Up with ‘Atlas’” contest – you can use either the March or April CTP release for your entries. Learn more about...

Friends of Client Development Newsletter – April 2006 WinForms Website Updated If you’ve been to http://www.windowsforms.net lately, you’ll notice several changes and updates. We’ve embarked on a website update project to update the Information Architecture to make it easier to find the information you’re looking for and to add fresh, new content to the site. You’ll see several new articles written by community members highlighted on the main page as well as new whitepapers written by our team on the ‘Get Started’ page. Check it out today! And, if you’re an author of WinForms-related articles on other sites, be sure to submit your new article to our listings. Current Projects - Update Last month, we gave an overview of several projects we’re...

Friends of Client Development N ews lette r – March 2006 Introducing our Team Greetings from the Microsoft product team that brings you WinForms! We’re launching this newsletter as an insider's view of what we’re working on - the first in series of monthly newsletters that gives you the latest on our progress in developing new products, our vision for the future, and anything we think you'll find interesting and exciting. We would love to hear from you - send your feedback and suggestions to Rich Ersek ( richarde@microsoft.com ). Current Projects So what have we been up to in the past several months? We’ve just finished up a quality-focused milestone which gave us an opportunity to further improve on our engineering practices. For example, one...

Friends of Web Development N ews lette r – March 2006 Introducing our Team Hello developers! We’re the product team that creates ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer (the web project designer in Visual Studio) and most recently, “Atlas”. We’re launching this newsletter as an insider's view of what we’re working on - the first in a series of monthly newsletters that gives you the latest on our progress in developing new products, our vision for the future, and anything we think you'll find interesting and exciting. We would love to hear from you - send your feedback and suggestions to Rich Ersek ( richarde@microsoft.com ). Current Projects So what have we been up to in the past several months? We’ve just finished up a quality-focused milestone which...