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The Internet Explorer team maintains a really good blog here: http://msdn.blogs.com/ie that I recommend subscribing to for useful information. They recently posted a good blog post detailing some of the CSS changes that have been made with IE 7.0 to enable it to handle CSS better. This is worth bookmarking if/when you are testing your site with IE7 going forward. Hope this helps, Scott Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More...
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Many thanks to everyone in New Zealand who attended my "ASP.NET: End-to-End - Building a Complete Web Application Using ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, and IIS7 (Parts 1 and 2)" talk this afternoon. You can download the slides from my talk here . You can then download the application I built here (note: this .zip file is actually the version I published after the US TechEd, but is the same code I wrote on stage today). There is a "ReadMe.txt" file in the root of the demos .zip file that walksthrough how to setup the demos. I've included two versions of the app -- one is in the "IIS7" directory and allows you to run the application using IIS7 on Windows Vista Beta2. The other is a slightly modified version of the sample that also works on IIS5...
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While procrastinating from finishing up my TechEd talks in my hotel room here in NZ, I came across this really funny link of a Microsoft UK employee's "Ten Worst Presentation Moments" that had me laughing out loud. One of my own "interesting experiences" occurred about 9 years ago at a PDC conference. It was the first time I had ever presented as a Microsoft employee, and it was to ~2400 people. I was doing a joint-presentation with another presenter and the plan was that he'd present the first part of the talk for 60 minutes, and then I'd do the second part of it for another 30 minutes. When we got going he unfortunately got spooked, though, and starting speaking super, super, super fast. After watching this awhile I tried to help calm him...
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That's right! Matt Gibbs and Bertrand Le Roy have just published an O'Reilly Shortcut all about the UpdatePanel. It is one of the key improvements that "Atlas" brings to ASP.NET developers to make it super simple to AJAX enable your site. You can buy it for $9.99 here Let us know what you think, read the description below: This PDF will teach you how to build richer and more interactive AJAX-style web applications using ASP.NET "Atlas," Microsoft's framework that extends ASP.NET 2.0. "Atlas" provides server controls that make it easy to perform asynchronous partial page updates. The key to making ASP.NET applications more responsive to user input is the UpdatePanel control. In this tutorial, you'll learn from the experts: Bertrand Le Roy, UpdatePanel...
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Yesterday we checked in some new base functionality to the Tookit (sure is nice having the extender stuff in the project!). Several customers have asked for the ability to persist settings in profiles, specifically things like Drag Panel Locations. But I can never leave well enough alone, so I wanted to figure out a way to make this general across the Toolkit. I'm pretty happy with it, hopefully it makes sense to you as well. Making it work is simple, here’s the quick summary, feedback welcome. To load a property value from a profile, assuming you have this profile setup in your web.config: < profile enabled = " true " > < properties > < add name = " panelCollapse " type = " System.Boolean " defaultValue = " false " /> <...
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We’ve recently added a new section on www.windowsforms.net focused on deployment of client applications. It has information on Clickonce, SMS, and Windows Installer. Check it out here . Read More...
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It seems like I'm not alone in my hatred for useless keys . I mean, who hasn't pressed Caps Lock instead of Tab or Shift? When was the last time you voluntarily used Caps Lock? Me, I physically extracted the Caps Lock key from my keyboards... http://capsoff.blogspot.com/ Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More...
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Steven Smith has a good discussion going on about what we should name "Atlas"... I can confirm that "Atlas" will not be the final name, and clearly we are listening, so add your funny and serious suggestions a like... Atlas Naming Game (note, you gotta check out all the comments.. that is where the fun is) Read More...
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One scenario that many large development teams often ask me about is whether it is possible to split up/partition an ASP.NET web application into multiple projects within Visual Studio. The goal with doing this is typically to improve the modularity of large sites and/or to improve the IDE compile-time performance for large projects. VS 2003 supported splitting up a large site into multiple projects, although it is non-trivial to setup and manage. With the VS 2005 Web Application Project option that we released earlier this spring, it is now pretty easy to set this up and manage it using VS 2005. Omar Khan (the Group Program Manager for the VS 2005 Web Tools) has published two really great walkthrough posts that describe step-by-step how to...
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Earlier this week the Windows Live team released the new Windows Live Writer blog posting and management tool that you can download and use for free. It is a desktop application that provides a really nice editing environment for writing blog posts (spell checker, layout manager, offline editing support, etc). Best of all, Windows Live Writer works with pretty much any server blog software out there, including Community Server (which is the excellent blog software I use to host this blog). This is actually my first post using the Windows Live Writer application with it. :-) Eric Cherng has put together a really nice Windows Live Writer walkthrough that shows off how to install and use it to write your first blog post. You can checkout his post...
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