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I’m super excited that Microsoft WebMatrix is now RTW ! Check out Microsoft WebMatrix [ HERE ] Read “ Web Development 101 With WebMatrix ” Stay tuned as I’m working on a collection of videos and tutorials !!! Read More...

If you’re like me you’ve been waiting with anticipation for this Orchard 1.0 ! Well, we’re LIVE. The primary differences between 0.8 and 1.0 is bug fixes but the milestone is that we’re production ready so we can starting building sites, modules, and themes with confidence. Get the RTW version [ HERE ] … and if you build a Module of Theme, make sure you let me know so I can blog about it !! Read More...

Last fall I started giving resentations on Microsoft’s cool new Web Development Stack – WebMatrix. I put together a collection of samples to demonstrate features and common tasks. It’s not really a sample application, per se, but really just a bunch of code/features examples in a single bundle. I’ve just updated then to work with the latest Beta 3 with is VERY close to RTM. I hope you will download WebMatrix and the Samples a check them out ! [ Get Microsoft WebMatrix HERE ] [ Get the code for the samples HERE ] Read More...

In this episode,Joe catches up with the Scott Hunter, Sr. PM Lead of the ASP.NET Team. Listen and hear about what the team is working on, how they plan and decide on new products and features, and more. [ Listen – Download – Subscribe HERE ] Read More...

Episode #2 - Orchard Project 0.8 Microsoft Orchard is an exciting new CMS - Application Development Platform from Microsoft. It's free, flexible and powerful. As Orchard approaches V1 release Joe catches up with the driving forces behind the project! [ Listen – Download – Subscribe HERE ]   Technorati Tags: Microsoft , MSJoe , Podcast , Orchard , Open Source Read More...

A basic practice in software development of all types is to use mechanisms that allow us to write and maintain code in a single place no matter how many difference places that code is used throughout our entire application. When we’re building web sites, and more specifically web pages, the reuse of UI code can be especially challenging as the nature of web applications are stateless and in most models there is a 1-to-1 relationship between endpoints and “files”. In ASP.NET WebForms we have master pages. In Microsoft WebMatrix we have Layout Templates. One of the advantages of the general move towards “standards based” web development is that HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can generally be used across different web development platforms and the technique...

Last year I built a sample WebForms application modeled after the original iBuySpy ecommerce application called TailSpin Spyworks . I thought it would be interesting to build something “real” using Microsoft WebMatrix . The web site I’ve settled on is a Kids Sports Team Portal. Here are some of the features I’m planning on. Season Game Schedule with front page reminder. Game Results archive with front page “most recent” game results. Practice Schedule. Push updates to parents email list. Parent's notification (option to advice coaches that a child will be absent.) Restricted access photo gallery with parent's contributions. Restricted access video gallery with parent’s contribution. Some social networking integration. I’ll be starting...

Ya, I know that I work for Microsoft and am not supposed to admit to ever owning an iPhone, let alone liking it. What’s more, I know working for Microsoft and being complementary about a Microsoft product (in this case Windows Phone 7) will have fans of “other” products coming out of the trees to call me a “shill”. Fair enough. But I just calls ‘em as I sees ‘em. I never set out to own an iPhone. I was an AT&T customer because I live in the boondocks of New England and needed the AT&T Microcell technology . (There is NO actual Cell Service at my house.) When my Windows Mobile / HTC phone died, Windows Phone 7 was still several months from it’s release date and I needed a phone. The ONLY phone my local AT&T store had in stock that...

I read this a couple of weeks ago. Soon I’ll be posting about a lot about Client / Service development for web development. The very nature of that model (Ajax) will cause some focus on REST style APs but we shouldn’t forget about SOAP and the WS-I extensions. SOAP and the WS-I extensions solve many difficult service oriented problems that are VERY difficult to address from scratch. If you’re new to the WS-I work, here are some highlight inks. Basic Profile Simple Soap Binding Profile Basic Security Profile Reliable Secure Profile Kerberos Token Profile REL Token Profile 1.0 SAML Token Profile You can read the whole press release [ HERE ] Read More...

  If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you already know that I love the Murach Books. Murach’s has updated their great C# book for v4 / 2010. If I were going to teach a course on C#, this is the book I would use. From the official description…. #1: A FAST start, coupled with Visual Studio productivity This book starts you off using all the best features of Visual Studio so you can begin productive work almost immediately. In fact, it has you create a simple business application in chapters 2 and 3 so you can see right away how the core features of C# and of Visual Studio work. Download these chapters for free , and see for yourself. #2: Object-oriented programming made clear When it comes to object-oriented programming, too many C#...