December 2008 - Posts
A small set of links reviewing 2008, and looking forward to 2009, from tech to news to photos, annotated with some personal comments... Read More...
At PDC 2008 in LA and TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona we announced key new features for Visual Studio 2010 for Web Developers... Apart from our focus on MVC, Dynamic Data, Silverlight and other key ASP.NET runtime functionality, this was the first time we announced the key investments pillars for Web Developers in VS 2010 ... Over the next year or so we will be writing in details about these new features, but to start off I thought it would be great to share various videos which are available to view online today ... Visual Studio 2010 - Web Development Overview In this talk we provided the glimpse of the major investment areas in VS 2010. The talk is divided into following key areas Design View - Improved CSS 2...
If you’ve been doing some script development in Visual Studio and Firebug, you may have experienced something like this: Notice how all resources take more than a second to load? Loading of scripts being sequential doesn’t help either. And of course, the more scripts you have on the page, the worse it gets. I’ve seen fairly simple pages take around 15 seconds to load because of this bug. I’m not quite sure where that bug comes from, but the good news is I have two solutions for you. First, you can configure Visual Studio to use IIS (when you do “new web site”, choose HTTP as the location, then “local IIS”). But the easiest is just to replace “localhost” in the browser address bar with “127.0.0.1”. Here’s the performance of the same page as above...
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 support adds more value for ASP.NET Ajax developers) but that’s a minor thing, and there are plenty of other resources to learn about jQuery . Topics in Wally’s book include: Ajax History Script Combining (including ScriptReferenceProfiler) jQuery Routing Entity Framework Dynamic Data ADO.NET Data Services http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/New-Features-in-ASP-NET-3-5-Service-Pack-1.productCd-0470457341.html Read More...
I have always found it is hard to make meaningful New Year's Resolutions. Lucky for me, I ran across this cool Silverlight Application that helps you find a truly meaningful resolution... if you don't like the one you get, just click "Randomize" and try again! Try your own http://resolutionrandomizer.pop.us/ecard.aspx ... I'd love to hear what you get! Read More...
Microsoft Report Viewer Add-on for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express is now available for download. It includes the RDLC designer and Microsoft Report Viewer 2008. The RDLC designer creates and edits RDLC files with RDL 2005 schema. Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b67b9445-c206-4ff7-8716-a8129370fa1d&DisplayLang=en Read More...
We are very happy to get out a bug-fix release of the Silverlight 2 DataGrid. It should be very easy to simply drop this into your project and the get the benefits of a bunch of bug fixes.. This updated DataGrid contains almost 30 fixes to the top issues that we heard, including: Rows containing focus no longer disappear when the ItemsSource changes ComboBox and other controls opening a popup now work as expected DataGrid Selection is preserved when sorting Buttons outside the DataGrid work as expected when they are clicked while the DataGrid is in editing mode Improved FrozenColumn behavior Improved cell currency SelectedItem is updated before the CurrentCellChanged event is raised Many more... For the full list of fixes check out this post...
A fluent (jQuery-esque) API for creating Silverlight animations easily in code, built on top of Silverlight.FX, along with some early thoughts on possible integration of animations and view models. Read More...
Today we launched a new ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery on the www.asp.net site. The design gallery hosts free HTML design templates that you can download and easily use with your ASP.NET MVC applications. Included with each design template is a Site.master file, a CSS stylesheet, and optionally a set of images, partials, and helper methods that support them. The gallery allows you to preview each of the designs online, as well as download a .zip version of them that you can extract and integrate into your site. The gallery allows anyone to create and submit new designs under the creative commons license. Visitors to the gallery can vote to provide feedback on them (thumbs up/thumbs down). The most popular designs...
A couple of ActionResult implementations to abstract out FormsAuthentication specifics from Login/Logout controller actions... thoughts? Read More...
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