October 2007 - Posts
Christophe Lauer has an interesting post (en français) that emphasizes how well-positioned .NET developers are to take on all sorts of platforms. For example, Silverlight job offers are just starting to show up on the radar in the Indeed.com Job Trends where Adobe Flex remains the leader.
As Christophe says, you can learn ActionScript and start working as a Flex developer but what can you switch to with that language under your belt? On the other hand, if you know the basic .NET Framework libraries in C# or VB.NET, you'll be up and running in short order with Silverlight 1.1 and its Rich Internet Applications (RIA).
Whether it's Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Compact Framework, WPF, or Silverlight, it's clear that learning the .NET platform is very likely to pay dividends somewhere in the job market. As Christophe says, "Let's revisit (the job growth stats) in a year".
Hey folks, I'm an MVP again for 2008!
(I know lots of people are posting these messages, but the award means a lot to me.)
Dear Ken Cox,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success every day. Your extraordinary efforts in Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET technical communities during the past year are greatly appreciated.
On behalf of everyone at Microsoft, thank you for your ongoing contributions to technical communities.
There's an interesting example of combining ASP.NET AJAX and server-side validation in the Validation Guidance Bundle from the Patterns and Practices group.
One of the fields requires the user to enter the URL of her home page. The sample invokes a server-side routine to check that the site that the user entered is valid (that is reachable) but it does this check without killing the responsiveness of the UI. (No use of the dreaded full page postback.)
Here's the Validation Guidance Bundle page on CodePlex:
http://www.codeplex.com/websf/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Validation_landing_page
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