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We had an interesting conversation with the good people from the Alt.NET podcast on jQuery and what it means for .NET developers. Check it out: http://altnetpodcast.com/episodes/11-jquery-in-asp.net Read More...

You may have read that from John Resig or Scott Guthrie . I’m very excited to announce that Microsoft has decided to ship, adopt and support using jQuery on top of ASP.NET. This may come as a surprise to some of you but I hope you’ll agree with me that it makes total sense. jQuery is a fantastic JavaScript library that focuses on DOM querying and manipulation, whereas the Microsoft Ajax Library focuses on building reusable components and interacting with ASP.NET web services. A lot has been written already on this new partnership so I’ll just go ahead and show some code that hopefully will show how great jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX work together. As my first piece of code using both frameworks, I’ve built a very simple plug-in for jQuery that instantiates...

I've done a series of four podcasts dedicated to JavaScript over the last month. Why? Because of this rockin' sweet announcement: Microsoft is going to make jQuery part of the official dev platform. JQuery will come with Visual Studio in the long term, and in the short term it'll ship with ASP.NET MVC. We'll also ship a version includes Intellisense in Visual Studio. The Announcement Blog Posts ScottGu on the jQuery/Microsoft goodness John Resig on the jQuery/Microsoft announcement This is cool because we're using jQuery just as it is. It's Open Source, and we'll use it and ship it via its MIT license, unchanged. If there's changes we want, we'll submit a patch just like anyone else. JQuery will also have...

While I like to think of my blog as a “must read”, I wanted to give out a list of some of the blogs that I think are really important to keep up with, either by visiting the blog or by subscribing to the RSS feed. Microsoft Update WSUS WSUS issues Security SWI blog Malware protection Vista Security Minded – from Kai the Security Guy ScottGu Somasegar http://www.securedeveloper.com/ IEBlog If you have any others that you visit regularly, I’d like to hear about them.  I tried to focus on blogs that are important to more then just ASP.NET folks, but I’d be glad to hear about ASP.NET blogs as well. Read More...

I haven’t seen a whole lot of information coming out about how Microsoft can help you optimize your IT infrastructure so I thought I could mention it. You can read more about the whole program at http://www.microsoft.com/optimization/default.mspx There is more information on our Server and Tools site at http://www.microsoft.com/servers/optimization.mspx There are also some learning links that you can use to help also at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/optimization/default.mspx .   So what is this Optimization about anyway? Well, it is a set of three models that we have build to enable a business to realize the full value of its IT infrastructure and platform investments.  This is all about putting more of your time and effort...

Writing web pages is very similar to writing any other type of code.  You have to understand how it is going to be used and where you need to really make things run as quickly as possible. There are a number of tips on this blog already that deal with managed code and ways to optimize it.  But one of the things that we don't look at as often are other areas of code that we are dependant on.  For example, if you P/Invoke a native function, whatever it is doing, is something that you need to be aware of.  Because there is a lot of native functionality that is still available to us, I wanted to remind everyone of some of the tips you can use when dealing with C/C++ code. A great place to start is with: Tips for Improving...

So I have now been able to install Beta 2 on my machine and I just wanted to give my thoughts on it so far. Installation This was a little bit of a problem for me and the Beta 2 package didn’t uninstall Beta 1 automatically for me on my Vista x64 machine.  It told me to uninstall the previous version and that restart the install.  So when I went to “Program and Features”, Internet Explorer wasn’t listed in any way there.  There was also no uninstall on the start menu. I did however find it.  It was located under the “View installed updates” choice on the left side of the Programs and Features window.  After I uninstalled that and rebooted, Beta 2 installed just fine. Usage I love the new changes to IE.  I didn’t...

In case you haven't seen already, as announced here , IE8 Beta 2 can now be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 . Why is this important?  Well, Beta 1 was for developers to see the new browser and test their sites with.  This beta is about everyone.  I'd really suggest taking a look at the IE blog referenced above and see some of the new features that are in this. I haven't had a chance to install it yet, but it is on my list of things to do in the near future. Read More...

So I wanted to post a little bit about my adventure with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 .  I have a virtual machine that has Visual Studio 2008 installed on it.  But it only has about 2 GB of free hard drive space on it.  So when I went to install this service pack, it gave me an error because it didn’t have enough hard drive space. So thus began my adventure to try to get enough disk space to install the service pack. Extending the drive My first thought was that I could just allocate more space for my .vhd file and allow it to grow.  Everything was going great with that, I was able to make it larger and when I booted up the VM, I saw the additional space in Computer Management.  But when I tried to “Extend Volume” on the hard...

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