February 2008 - Posts
As you know, the team has been very busy working on controls for the upcoming Silverlight 2 Beta 1 release. Working on a new platform, with new tools, doing things that have never been done before is more than enough to keep us busy. But we wanted to make sure we kept some focus on our AJAX Control Toolkit users. As such, we pulled together some top-requested bug fixes as well as all the fixes we've recently gotten from our users , and have released the 20229 version of the Toolkit . Thanks to all of our users that have been submitting patches - keep it up! More details available from Kirti and David about what went into this release. Read More...
Last week I did a First Look at Silverlight 2 post that talked about the upcoming Silverlight 2 Beta1 release. In the post I linked to some end-to-end tutorials I've written that walk through some of the fundamental programming concepts behind Silverlight and WPF, and demonstrate how to use them to build a "Digg Search Client" application using Silverlight: Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008 Part 2: Using Layout Management Part 3: Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a DataGrid Part 4: Using Style Elements to Better Encapsulate Look and Feel Part 5: Using the ListBox and DataBinding to Display List Data Part 6: Using User Controls to Implement Master/Details Scenarios Part 7...
The Visual Studio 2008 Launch fun continues! There is a around the clock chat going on to give people around the world a chance to ask questions about VS2008. I will be hosting a live chat today(2-28) 8-10pm PST. If you'd like to sign on and ask any questions on Visual Studio 2008 or ASP.NET 3.5 I'd be happy to help if I can. Virtual Launch Experience: Developer Chat (Visual Studio 2008) See you there! Read More...
I am already having a great time at the Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Sql Server 2008 Launch event in LA… I am gave a very fun session on Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers... It was fun to pull this together over the last few days (harddrive crash excluded). There is SO much good stuff for web developers in VS2008... From Linq , to CSS \HTML designers , to JavaScript debugging and intellesnse and of course the ASP.NET 3.5 support Ajax ( updatePanel , the Ajax control toolkit , JSON based web services, etc). What is your favorite feature? If you could not make it to LA, the good news is there are tons of local launch events .. check out the list Being in the LA convention center brings back...
In April I will be going to see some family in North Carolina and I thought I'd take the opportunity to speak at the local user group there. On April 9th, I will be speaking at the Triangle .NET User Group in Raleigh, NC... Here is what I planned to cover.. Sort of think of it like Mix08 in 1.5 hours ;-) Come hear about the exciting future technologies for web development on .NET. Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for the .NET Framework at Microsoft will discuss and demo new web development technology his team is working on. In particular, you will walk away understand the ASP.NET MVC framework, why it was created and what it is good for. We will also drill into the new innovations in Silverlight...
Wanted to update you on a upcoming web cast that I am doing in support of Visual Studio 2008 launch event... Title : New Enhancements for Web Developers in VS 2008 Date/Day: Tuesday, February 26th 2008 Time: 11am to 12:30pm Pacific Standard Time (PST) Description :Get an overview of how Visual Studio 2008 takes web development to the next level. See highlights of the key new Web tools experiences in the Visual Studio 2008 product including support for multi-Targeting, JavaScript enhancements, rich support for CSS standards, rapid development of data-bound web pages using LINQ To SQL, and more. Also learn about the new Web Application Project and Web Deployment Project enhancements to Visual Studio which adds an alternative Web application...
What we've been up to in DevDiv... Today, Scott put up a mammoth post introducing the upcoming Silverlight 2 Beta 1 . His post includes an 8 (yes, 8!) part walk through building out an application using it. I really have to hand it to Scott on this one, and I'm not just kissing up because he's my boss. He's been talking about this post he's been working on all week, and I went over a little bit of it with him on Monday. But when I saw it live this morning, my jaw just about hit the floor. To say the guy is prolific is an understatement. Just earlier this week, he put up another big roadmap post . I've been spending this week playing with the overall Silverlight 2 Beta 1 experience, which...
What we've been up to in DevDiv... Today, Scott put up a mammoth post introducing the upcoming Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. His post includes an 8 (yes, 8!) part walk through building out an application using it. I really have to hand it to Scott on this one, and I'm not just kissing up because he's my boss. He's been talking about this post he's been working on all week, and I went over a little bit of it with him on Monday. But when I saw it live this morning, my jaw just about hit the floor. To say the guy is prolific is an understatement. Just earlier this week, he put up another big roadmap post . I've been spending this week playing with the overall Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 experience, which...
Last September we shipped Silverlight 1.0 for Mac and Windows , and announced our plans to deliver Silverlight on Linux. Silverlight 1.0 is focused on enabling rich media scenarios in a browser, and supports a JavaScript/AJAX programming model. We are shortly going to release the first public beta of Silverlight 2, which will be a major update of Silverlight that focuses on enabling Rich Internet Application (RIA) development. This is the first of several blog posts I'll be doing over the weeks and months ahead that talk in more depth about it. Cross Platform / Cross Browser .NET Development Silverlight 2 includes a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .NET Framework, and enables a rich .NET development platform that...
ScottGu has been burning the midnight oil (literally!) to pull together an incredibly detailed tutorial that shows how powerful Silverlight 2 is going to be. Get an early scoop on the features in the soon to be released Beta1, get a feel for how Visual Studio and Expression Studio work together to enable developer/designer collaboration that is second to none, and see just a subset of the power that Silverlight 2 is going to bring to building amazing RIA applications. Get the summary here and links to over 20 pages of details. Hard to believe all of that power is packed into 4.3mb install that just takes 4-10 seconds on a typical machine without Silverlight. Let us know what you think -- and remember this is just the beginning, there are a lot...
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