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• Cool new ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight demo application

  Steve Marx apparently never gets tired of writing video centric web sites... he has done it again and it is very cool. I am impressed with the fact that there is so few lines of code (in fact there is more CSS markup than code).. this is due to the simplicity that Linq, ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight brings to the developers. Here is the the code and a screen cast . Steve uses a bunch of new stuff! Searching and paging via ListView, DataPager, and LinqDataSource (all new ASP.NET controls with .NET 3.5). Video player via the Media control in the ASP.NET Futures July CTP (uses Silverlight 1.0 RC). Popup biographies and "more/less" collapsible details via the new .NET 3.5-compatible drop of the AJAX Control Toolkit. Back/forward buttons support via... Posted Aug 17 2007, 01:58 AM by Brad Abrams : AJAX Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Mix07, Silverlight

• Search engine optimization for Silverlight and Ajax

  Check out your referral logs.. notice a pattern? If your logs are like mine, a HUGE percentage of your hits are coming through a search engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN)... Here is 3 minutes worth of referral logs from my blog... In a world where a good percentage of your content is dynamically created and displayed in Ajax or Silverlight, how can you enable search engines to find your data? Well, a bunch of folks across the web have been doing some thinking on this. Jonathan Hawkins recently did a session at mix on the topic and posted some thoughts. Nikhil also discussed the issue in his talk at mix and posted some interesting techniques as well. ASP.NET Futures CTP has features to enable you to have multiple code driven dynamic sitemaps. This can... Posted May 25 2007, 12:20 AM by Brad Abrams : AJAX Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Mix07, Silverlight

• Searching enabling Silverlight and AJAX web applications

  The major search engines index HTML text elements (body text, title, image alt text, etc) and following anchor tag (<a href= />) links. Currently none of the search engines index XAML. However many Silverlight web applications have dynamic experiences that are driven by code running in the browser. In Silverlight 1.0 this is Javascript and in Silverlight 1.1 this will include manage code languages such as C#, VB, etc. The code may be as simple as generating dynamic UI fragments on the fly all the way from a static list of data to dynamically obtaining data from a database/web service and generate UI fragments and adding them to the UI experience. Thus even when search engines get around to indexing static .xaml content which is good first... Posted May 23 2007, 03:11 PM by jhawk's WebLog Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Mix07, Silverlight, Sitemap, Search

• ASP.NET Futures Release

  I am super excighted about the ASP.NET Futures release we did recently. I think it shows off some cool new thinking in the ASP.NET space, for Ajax applications and of course Silverlight support. I demoed much of this stuff as part of my Mix talk , but I wanted to highlight a few here for ASP.NET AJAX New functionality includes CSS selector APIs, navigation history support (Back button support), a utility for extracting resources from assemblies, and more. Check out my mix talk for some cool stuff on back button support. Silverlight Controls for ASP.NET Enables the ability to include media (video, audio) vector graphics, and animations by using familiar and powerful ASP.NET server controls. This is very cool because it enable server side databinding... Posted May 16 2007, 06:00 PM by Brad Abrams : AJAX Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Mix07, Silverlight

• MIX07 Search Capabilities for Dynamic Web Content

  Last week at MIX07 Nathan Buggia and I presented a talk on Search enabling dynamic web content applications including ASP.NET and Silverlight web applications. I posted the deck . You can stream or download the video. I'll post the samples in next couple of days. enjoy Jonathan Read More... Posted May 06 2007, 02:43 PM by jhawk's WebLog Filed under: Mix07

• Mix Session Video -- Silverlight: Creating and Delivering Amazing Video Experiences on the Web

  I just noticed that they got the video for my Mix talk posted ... Silverlight: Creating and Delivering Amazing Video Experiences on the Web It is completely free! You don't have to have been an attendee to see it. Please take a look and let me hear your thoughts and feedback. Enjoy! Read More... Posted May 05 2007, 06:06 PM by Brad Abrams : AJAX Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Mix07, Silverlight

• Silverlight @ Mix: The Home Games

  I know many of you are following all the excitement here at Mix from home. I am super happy that they already have several of the sessions posted for live streaming or downloading. Here are a few that I think are worth watching first.. Mike Harsh : Deep Dive on Silverlight Media Integration Mike goes super deep on the media support in Silverlight... John Lam and Jim Hugunin : Just Glue It! Ruby and the DLR in Silverlight John and Jim are an excellent duo... They have a great interchange on the power of dynamic languages ion the platform. Anders Hejisberg: Using LINQ to Dramatically Improve Data Driven Development in Web Applications Andres + Linq. What more do I need to say. Jamie Cool and Nick Kramer : Building Silverlight Applications Using... Posted May 02 2007, 03:16 AM by Brad Abrams : AJAX Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Mix07, Silverlight

• Mix Session Overview -- Silverlight: Creating and Delivering Amazing Video Experiences on the Web

  I had a great time in my Mix session today... there was great buzz in the room. Silverlight download ASP.NET Futures download Live demo site Here are a few highlights... I started off talking about the importance of having your site "Look Great and Feel Great". In the demo for this section, I showed off I Expression Media Encoder . What is really cool is that Expression also outputs the brand new asp:Media control . This is so cool because it handles all the issues of using Silverlight in the different browsers with NO client side javascript and fully use the power of the server (databinding, etc). Check out the new ASP.NET Futures release to get these bits. The next principle I talked about was "Uninterrupted Flow". The goal here is to make... Posted May 01 2007, 12:43 PM by Brad Abrams : AJAX Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Framework, Mix07, Silverlight

• Mix Sandbox in the Sky and my demo...

  Have you checked out the Mix Sandbox in the Sky yet? It is a free web hoster that has all the cool bits we are talking about here already installed. If you are here at Mix, it allows you to build, install and share YOUR work. If you are following the action from home , you can see what folks are building. Steve Marx just got the demo for my talk posted on the sandbox ... Go check it out! But please come to the talk to see how it is built ;-) (today at 4:30p) Notice it is just a demo, so not everything fully works... You will need the beta of Silverlight 1.0 that we just released ( silverlight.net ) Enjoy! Read More... Posted Apr 30 2007, 03:08 PM by Brad Abrams : AJAX Filed under: Ajax, Mix07, Silverlight

• On my way to Mix....

  I can't wait for Mix to start... Friday we locked down all the bits we are giving out (and it is a LOT of them)... polished some very cool demos and got our hands on the final version of some other cool stuff. You could really feel the buzz growing over in building 42 and building 10! I am very excited about the talk I am giving... It will be a lot of fun and will cover a some great Silverlight media stuff, some new ASP.NET AJAX work and of course Expression and Visual Studio. If you are there, please come... If not, look for the demo and slides after the event. Silverlight: Creating and Delivering Amazing Video Experiences on the Web Monday, April 30 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM, Lando 4301A Speakers: Brad Abrams , Chris Knowlton - Microsoft Audiences... Posted Apr 28 2007, 10:50 PM by Brad Abrams : AJAX Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, Mix07, Silverlight