I had the pleasure of attending an information session with Bruce Tate, CTO of WellGood LLC , a die hard Ruby on Rails fan, and before that a die hard fan of Spring and Hibernate in the Java World, and before that a die hard Java fan :-) To be fair, Bruce is about doing things quickly and efficiently...

I've recently started reading the book Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Design: CSS, Themes, and Master Pages by Jacob J. Sanford and skipped ahead to Appendix B: An Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight . This chapter provides an excellent introduction to Silverlight projects using Visual Studio 2008 and the...

The Volta technology preview , a developer toolset for building multi-tier web applications using existing and familiar tools, techniques and patterns. Volta’s declarative tier-splitting enables developers to postpone architectural decisions about distribution until the last possible responsible...

An update for the Visual Studio 2005 spell checker add-in to work with Visual Studio 2008 with more functions being added check it here http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/12/13/spell-checker-for-html-asp-net-jscript-vb-c-css-and-c-for-visual-studio-2005-and-2008.aspx

Although Visual Web Developer 2008 makes it convenient to connect to a remote site, doing so with the built-in FTP client is a pain in the butt. There's something wrong with the VS-embedded module that handles FTP transfers. Am I the only one seeing slow screen painting and refresh in this client app...

Sheesh! I had a nasty shock yesterday when I went to register for the Vancouver Launch & Technical Readiness event on March 4th - it said the event was full ! What?!?! Already?!?! It turns out it was a glitch at the Web site and the "full" message was bogus. I was able to register this morning without...

Hey folks, Along with a number of other MVPs, regional directors, and community leaders, I've signed up to help out in the Ask the Experts area of Energize IT 2008 in Toronto on Saturday, May 24, 2008. It's a free event (including lunch) sponsored by Microsoft Canada and held at the Toronto Congress...

Just to save others from having to drill down a million levels to locate the Dynamic Data online documentation, here's a convenient starting point, Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data . ( http://vs2008sp1docs.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms336422.aspx ) I'm digging into Dynamic Data for a short demo at Energize IT...

Here I am debugging JavaScript in an ASP.NET 3.5 site using Visual Studio 2008. In the Command Window, I type: ? grid to see the properties of a JavaScript object. So far so good until the Command window reports: < More... (The first 100 of 429 items were displayed.) > Back in the DOS days, I would...

Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extension Preview ( ASP.NET MVC) are available now check it at asp.net web site. Download the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview | Readme | Quickstarts | Discuss in Forums