Are you interested in making a change? Do you want to join a fast moving team inside of Microsoft and help drive the future features in ASP.NET?We have a program manager position on the ASP.NET team which is currently available. You can access the listing here: ASP.NET PM Position . We are looking for someone that is interested in driving the data strategy on our team which includes partnering with LINQ and SQL teams, is into web standards around HTML, CSS and JavaScript and making ASP.NET work better with these standards and much much more. Please check out the listing if you are interested. Read More...

My team is looking for a new full-time developer. The project is to build a completely new open-source CMS based on ASP.NET MVC 2. It’s a lot of fun :) https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=9434&jlang=EN Read More...

In previous posts, I’ve shown different ways to build a client-side class browser, using the ASP.NET Ajax Libary and jQuery. In this post, I’ll focus on a few lines of code from the latest version of that sample. Those few lines of code enable my custom script to benefit from the script loader’s features such as lazy and parallel loading and dependency management. An important feature of the script loader is the separation of the script meta-data from the script code itself. The meta-data can include the name of the script, its dependencies, instructions on how to figure out if it’s already loaded, its debug and release URL patterns and a declaration of the lazy components and plug-ins it introduces. The script loader can also handle composite...

At the PDC (our dev conference) we release the Beta version of the ASP.NET Ajax Library and also donated it to the CodePlex Foundation as their first project.  For this version of the library we’ve focused on four areas of functionality: Power for developers Build data-centric web apps using advanced client-side libraries and controls Keep your markup clean and standards-compliant with imperative coding Make it easier to code using JavaScript IntelliSense (autocomplete) in Visual Studio Keep it simple to load and execute your scripts using the advanced management and execution features of the Script Loader Performance Use the Microsoft Ajax CDN for lightning-fast downloads of the Microsoft Ajax Library and jQuery Reduce the number of requests...

I made the fairly bold statement at my PDC09 talk that a DomainService IS A WCF Service.  That is, everything you know about a WCF service should be true of a DomainService.  I didn’t have time to get into this in my talk, so I thought I’d hit the highlights here.  And in the process show how to consume a DomainService from a WinForms.    You can also see more examples at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RiaServices   You need: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (this actually works exactly the same in VS2008 and the corresponding RIA Services drop ) Silverlight 4 Beta   You can download the completed solution as well.   and be sure to check out the full talk .    1. Getting to the Service The first...

This past week was a busy one – with lots of announcements and cool releases happening at this year’s PDC conference .  All of the PDC keynotes and breakout sessions are now posted online for anyone to watch for free.  You can find sessions to watch here .  My PDC keynote covered our new Silverlight 4 release and was on Day 2.  You can watch it here (I start at the 1 hour, 2 minute, and 45 second mark). LIDNUG Online Chat Monday November 23rd I’ll be doing a free online web chat Monday November 23rd at 11:30am PST where you can ask any questions about anything (including PDC announcements).  The chat is hosted by the LIDNUG user group.  You can sign up and attend for free here .  The chat will be recorded and...

Just wanted to highlight a couple of podcasts that were suckers gracious enough to have me as a guest. HerdingCode In this podcast I join the fellas at HerdingCode . Although this podcast came out after the Hanselminutes one, it was actually recorded a long time prior to that one. Jon Galloway , who does the editing, probably has some lame excuse about life changing events keeping him busy . I spent most of the time covering what’s new with ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2, how the community influences our project, and how we prioritize bugs. I also finally reveal the dirty truth about Rob Conery ’s departure from Microsoft. What’s notable about this episode is the introduction of a brand new segment, “Abusive Questions from Twitter”. I was having problems...

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download page on CodePlex   MVC 2 Beta introduces two nice helpers called Html.RenderAction and Html.Action.  Phil Haack described them in detail on his blog , so you may want to read through that before reading this post. Basically, they’re two additional methods that follow the standard MVC pattern of passing the controller name and action name as literal strings, and the action parameters as anonymous objects.  e.g. Copying from Phil’s example, if you have an Action like this: public ActionResult Menu(MenuOptions options) { return PartialView(options); } You can write this in your View: <%= Html.Action("Menu", new { options = new MenuOptions { Width=400, Height=500} })%>...

Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform.  This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out.  Here is a quick overview:   IIS Search Engine Optimization v1 final release! The IIS team shipped the final release of IIS SEO toolkit which makes it easier to optimize your Website for search engines .  It acts like a mini-search engine on your computer, scans your site and then provides useful tips for how to improve the relevance of your site to search engines.  This tool is now out of beta and available for download through Web PI .    ASP.NET MVC 2 beta! The ASP.NET team has been hard at work on the second release of MVC, which is now available...

This is the third post in my series ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta and its new features. ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released (Release Announcement) Html.RenderAction and Html.Action ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation In this post I will cover validation. No, not that kind of validation, though I do think you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and doggone it, people like you. Rather, I want to cover building a custom validation attribute using the base classes available in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations . ASP.NET MVC 2 has built-in support for data annotation validation attributes for doing validation on a server. For details on how data annotations work with ASP.NET MVC 2, check out Brad’s blog post. But I won’t stop there. I’ll then cover how to hook into...