Weblogs.asp.net and www.asp.net Under New Management

I just learned that our favourite Microsoft community sites (www.asp.net, www.iis.net, www.silverlight.net, and www.windowsclient.net) are under new management. The fabulous people at Telligent are "changing direction to focus more on building and servicing our flagship product: Community Server". So, welcome to Jay Esguerra and the folks at Neudesic who have officially taken over managing the sites today.

I'm a bit nostalgic to see the management change hands at www.asp.net. I remember the early years when the site and code were Rob Howard's personal responsibility. I was in charge of the ASP.NET Control Gallery back then and dealt directly with Rob to get tweaks made to the pages. At that time, Rob's original code was downloadable from the late GotDotNet site.

 

Published Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:01 PM by Ken Cox [MVP]
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# re: Weblogs.asp.net and www.asp.net Under New Management

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:37 PM by Dave

Man, I sure hope they finally fix search on the sites. Searching forums has been terrible since day one.

# re: Weblogs.asp.net and www.asp.net Under New Management

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:00 PM by Karl

Thank God.

Let's hope they pull the ads. ASP.NET  is the only website that places ads on its webpage. Neither Ruby nor PHP do. It's embarrassing.

# re: Weblogs.asp.net and www.asp.net Under New Management

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:46 PM by Ken Cox [MVP]

Update: Raj passes along this correction:

"You probably already know this. The original code was written by Scott Mitchell which was then acquired by Microsoft. It was originally called Webforums.NET. "

msdn.microsoft.com/.../aa336543.aspx

# re: Weblogs.asp.net and www.asp.net Under New Management

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:48 PM by Ken Cox [MVP]

@Dave: Hasn't Search *always* been a problem for Microsoft? Actually, Live Search sucks much less nowadays. <grin>

Ken

# re: Weblogs.asp.net and www.asp.net Under New Management

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:52 PM by Ken Cox [MVP]

@ Karl: I agree on the advertising. It seems kinda petty to include advertising on a corporate-sponsored site.  Fortunately, I'm one of the oldtimers on weblogs.asp.net whose pages don't require ads.

Ken

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