February 2007 - Posts
Thanks to everyone who came to my webcast today on Using the Microsoft AJAX Library with PHP . We had about fifty people at the live webcast. If you missed it, a recording should go up in the next 24 hours. During the talk, I showed how to use the Microsoft AJAX Library to create client-side controls and behaviors. I also showed how to use the networking API (plus " PHP for Microsoft AJAX Library ") to communicate with a PHP server. The sample I showed during the session is brand new. It's called "Achord", and you can play with it here . The idea is for you to be able to write notes during an event (like a webcast!) while seeing the notes other people are taking. Then you can aggregate (copy/paste) when you see something useful. That way not...
The March CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio Orcas is now available here . You can either install it (side-by-side with VS 2005) or use via a VPC image. This is the first CTP that contains significant web tools feature enhancements - the new HTML/Webforms Designer, Jscript Intellisense and Debugging, LINQ to SQL Designer and Multitargeting being some of the key features. You can learn more about these features from this blog post by Scott as well as this forum post by Jim. We encourage all of you to try out the CTP and provide us early feedback that will help shape the rest of this release. We have created a new forum for you to post your questions, issues/bugs and suggestions regarding the feature set. Team members will be...
I often forget to blog about some of the cool events I attend until it’s a little too late, but hey, better than blogging about it after the fact, when people can’t even try to show up right?
Tomorrow, Chris Wilson and I are headed down to San Jose for an event put on by the Read More...
I often forget to blog about some of the cool events I attend until it's a little too late, but hey, better than blogging about it after the fact, when people can't even try to show up right? Tomorrow, Chris Wilson and I are headed down to San Jose for an event put on by the Silicon Valley Web Builders for a session that they're calling Browser Wars: Episode II Attack of the DOMs . Beside the name being something that bugs me a bit, this is going to be a fantastic event! This is one of the few times that Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera have been on stage together to talk about where the web goes next, and what their visions are for the future. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by what Chris has to say. Chris and I sat down on Monday...
Danielfe decided to put together a great post about how some of us look like famous people (not that we aren't famous in our own right :)) -- the similarities are shocking -- check it out, let us know what you think. http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2007/02/26/microsoft-bloggers-the-movie.aspx Read More...
People often ask me for guidance on how they can dynamically "re-write" URLs and/or have the ability to publish cleaner URL end-points within their ASP.NET web applications. This blog post summarizes a few approaches you can take to cleanly map or rewrite URLs with ASP.NET, and have the option to structure the URLs of your application however you want. Why does URL mapping and rewriting matter? The most common scenarios where developers want greater flexibility with URLs are: 1) Handling cases where you want to restructure the pages within your web application, and you want to ensure that people who have bookmarked old URLs don't break when you move pages around. Url-rewriting enables you to transparently forward requests to the new page location...
You should already be subscribing to Eilon Lipton , so I don't need to tell you that he has a new post about this lengthy exception called "Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException - what it is and how to avoid it ." It's well worth a read, particularly for those who are porting legacy applications forward to ASP.NET AJAX. Update: It's an unintended humorous consequence that the title of this post can't fit within my blog's layout. :-) Read More...
Cross-posted from the IE Blog I can’t believe it’s already been almost a year since MIX06 , and the countdown for MIX07 has started. With 63 days until MIX07 starts, and the early bird discount still available, now is the time to register ! While the list of sessions is still being finalized, the IE team is going to be there in force again this year. We’ve already announced a few IE specific sessions, including “IE7 Past, Present and Future”, “Making Money with RSS”, and “Thinking in CSS: How to Build Great Looking Sites with Molly Holzschlag.” MIX is a great opportunity to learn about all kinds of web development, and it’s also a cool opportunity to meet and chat with people who work directly on Internet Explorer. MIX07 isn’t just about Internet...
This Wednesday at 1:00PM PST, I'll be presenting a webcast on Using the Microsoft AJAX Library with PHP . (Drew Robbins was signed up for this one, but he asked me to present because of my CodePlex project: PHP for Microsoft AJAX Library .) I'm working between now and then to put together a few new demos, and maybe even ship a couple new features in the CodePlex project. Please register for the event and ask me some hard questions during the session. It would be great to have you there! Read More...
If you've been watching the rest of the "How Do I?" with ASP.NET AJAX series , you'll find Joe Stagner's latest video a bit of a departure. Most of the videos so far have been introductions to specific features. This new video, on the other hand, is the first to show how to apply the technical skills you've been developing toward implementing a pattern. The new video is called "How Do I: Implement the Predictive Fetch Pattern for AJAX," and I highly recommend watching it and then giving some thought to how you can use this pattern in your own applications. The idea of predictive fetch is to go ahead and request the next set of data the user is likely to want in the background. Then when the user requests the new data, it's already there on the...
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