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Well, I guess it’s not so super-secret anymore now but these last few months, I’ve been transitioning from ASP.NET Ajax to a new project that aims at helping ASP.NET communities build Open Source applications on ASP.NET. It’s a lot of fun and the good news is that you can join in. We are hiring a senior developer: https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=4567&jlang=EN Please mention me (Bertrand Le Roy, bleroy at Microsoft) as the referral if you apply. ;) Read More...
There are applications out there that will put IE4/5/6/7/8 on the same machine and let you switch between the different versions of IE, but there are a couple of problems with this. I typically describe this type of situation as a Frankenbuild. Any time you start messing with Windows core components, and changing OS level DLL’s, you’re setting yourself up for heartache. You also don’t know if you’re replacing the whole set, or just a subset of the DLLs. For example, if you’ve got IE8 installed on the box, and you put the IE6 rendering engine in, you have the IE6 rendering engine, the IE8 JavaScript engine and the IE8 networking stack. Hmm, no real customer is ever going to see that. You never know what the...
Internet Explorer 8 is a unique release in the history of Internet Explorer in more than one way, but the decision to make standards mode the default means that authors of existing sites are impacted by it, if only to set the compatibility mode to IE7. But what if your site is built using components that render out markup and script over which you have little control, such as ASP.NET WebControls? Well, if one of the controls fails in IE8 standards mode, you need to either switch to compatibility mode (ouch!) or you need the component developer to ship an updated version. During the whole IE8 development cycle, we monitored the behavior of existing controls. Most ASP.NET built-in controls have been doing just fine in IE8, or the faulty behavior...
In a move that I wouldn’t have bet a dollar on, Live Labs released a purely JavaScript Deep Zoom client. You read that right, what was so far one of the nice features only found in Silverlight is now available in an open web, standards-based version. Seadragon.embed("451px", "338px", "http://seadragon.com/content/images/CarinaNebula.dzi", 29566, 14321, 254, 1, "jpg"); Of course, from a technical standpoint, Deep Zoom is just commoditizing what Google Maps made possible years ago in pure script so there wasn’t really a reason why this couldn’t be done, except smoother transitions and zooming but that’s pretty tenuous. The great thing about this new library is that the tools to create the Deep Zoom image...
I just finished presenting my last session of TechEd EMEA for 2008 and I'm sad to be leaving! But, hopefully I'll get another chance next year. My last session was a repeat of "Top 10 Web Mistakes" and I said I'd post some of the sites that I showed during the session, so here they are. Sites That Suck http://www.teacherxpress.com/ How am I supposed to find content on this site? http://www.continental.com Some validation errors are okay, others, maybe not so much. http://www.samanzerin.com/ I don't even know where to start, figuratively or literally. http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/seattle/flowmaps/bridges.htm http://wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/ Nice to see consistency on here. :) http://www.toyjoy.com/ Only pop ups? Really...
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 teams, as well as talks from members of the community. This should be very interesting. Then I’ll be flying to L.A. for the PDC . If you’re going to be there and want to chat, feel free to drop me a note at bleroy at Microsoft. I’ll be in the room during Stephen Walthers ’ session on jQuery and ASP.NET on Tuesday from 5:15 to 6:30 (403AB). I’ll also do a short demo in Scott Hunter ’s talk on the ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap on Monday from 1:45 to 3:00...
We had an interesting conversation with the good people from the Alt.NET podcast on jQuery and what it means for .NET developers. Check it out: http://altnetpodcast.com/episodes/11-jquery-in-asp.net Read More...
You may have read that from John Resig or Scott Guthrie . I’m very excited to announce that Microsoft has decided to ship, adopt and support using jQuery on top of ASP.NET. This may come as a surprise to some of you but I hope you’ll agree with me that it makes total sense. jQuery is a fantastic JavaScript library that focuses on DOM querying and manipulation, whereas the Microsoft Ajax Library focuses on building reusable components and interacting with ASP.NET web services. A lot has been written already on this new partnership so I’ll just go ahead and show some code that hopefully will show how great jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX work together. As my first piece of code using both frameworks, I’ve built a very simple plug-in for jQuery that instantiates...
I've blogged in the past about injection attacks . Microsoft publishes additional new tools to detect and protect against injection attacks. The first tool, developed by HP, crawls web sites to automatically detect possible attacks, the second blocks dangerous requests from being executed, and the last one analyzes code to look for dangerous practice. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/954462.mspx Read More...
This will affect all Web developers, which is precisely why the debate is very heated. Anyway, here's a honest recap of the issue. I tend to agree with the author's conclusion although that is obvisouly not the position of Microsoft... http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/ie8-super-standards-mode.ars http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/ie8-super-standards-mode.ars/2 Note: at the smallest signs of a flame war, I will close the comments on this post. Ars has a good forum and comment system where your voice is much more likely to be heard and endlessly contradicted. ;) Read More...
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