The full 83 minutes of my PDC talk are available on the Channel 9 web site . You can watch the session online (using Silverlight) or download the video in a number of formats. Slides and source code for the demo are also available. Watch online: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC32/ Download MP4 / iPod...

I’m flying to San Jose tonight for tomorrow’s OpenAjax Alliance face to face meeting , which Microsoft is hosting. On Friday, we are also hosting a new event that aims at establishing a dialogue between JavaScript library developers and Microsoft. We’ll have talks from the IE, Visual Studio and ASP.NET...

I just released the latest version of the Ajax Control Toolkit for .NET 3.5 SP1. This is an intermediary release that provides a version of the Toolkit that is built against the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. It contains a new control, MultiHandleSlider, built by Daniel Crenna (thanks, Daniel, you're the hero...

Well, at least a Dot Net Slacker ... My first article on DotNetSlackers just got published. It shows how to handle the back button with ASP.NET Ajax using pure server code. Check it out (registration required) : http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/ajax/HandlingTheBackButtonFromServerCode.aspx

Following the more open-sourcey informal study that was recently advertised on Ajaxian , Simone Chiaretta publishes and analyses the results of his own study that he recently made and that is aimed exclusively at .NET developers. While Richard Monson-Haefel's study is being made for the third consecutive...

In part 1 , I showed how to subscribe to events exposed by JavaScript classes built on Microsoft Ajax. In this post, I'll show how to expose new events from your own classes. Theoretically, the only things you have to do to expose an event are to implement "add_myEvent" and "remove_myEvent" methods that...

The latest episode of the .NET show is all about ASP.NET Ajax. Brad and Matt first have a really interesting discussion of the history and architecture of ASP.NET Ajax and then you can see me demo-ing UpdatePanel, extenders and localization. Most of the demos are extracted from the short book Matt and...

Xml documentation annotations are going to drive JavaScript IntelliSense in Visual Studio Orcas (the next version of Visual Studio). For more than a year now, we've been including xml doc comments to all public APIs in the Microsoft Ajax Library (which are a great place to check out some examples of...

I'm extremely pleased to announce that we're joining OpenAjax today and that I'll represent the company in the organization's meetings starting this Thursday. This is a way for us to ensure that our user community can combine the Microsoft AJAX Library and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions...

Wally McClure, MVP extraordinaire and ASP Insider, just published a short book about the new features in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 . It is a short and to the point read that should get you started in no time. I wouldn’t have shown web service access as the main advantage of jQuery myself (the selector and animation...