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Hiring for new super-secret project

Tales from the Evil Empire — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:35:06 GMT

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......(read more)

Running Multiple Versions Of IE On The Same Box

PeteL's Blog : share — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:27:50 GMT

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...(read more)

asp:menu fix for IE8 problem available

Tales from the Evil Empire — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:20:55 GMT

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...(read more)

Deep Zoom without Silverlight

Tales from the Evil Empire — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:42:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Top 10 Web Mistakes [From TechEd EMEA]

PeteL's Blog : share — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:20:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Going to California

Tales from the Evil Empire — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Alt.NET podcast on jQuery

Tales from the Evil Empire — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:56:57 GMT

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......(read more)

jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

Tales from the Evil Empire — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:23:00 GMT

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...(read more)

New tools to prevent SQL injection attacks

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

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......(read more)

A honest recap of the IE8 meta-tag controversy

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:43:00 GMT

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......(read more)

Ajax usage survey among .NET developers

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:22:58 GMT

Following the more open-sourcey informal study that was recently advertised on Ajaxian , Simone Chiaretta publishes and analyses the results of his own study that he recently made and that is aimed exclusively at .NET developers. While Richard Monson-Haefel's study is being made for the third consecutive year, which makes for some interesting trend information, Simone's analysis is more directly interesting to us. The differences between the results of both studies for .NET developers also goes a long way showing how such data crucially depends on who you're asking. Case in point, it's pretty clear that the intersection of Ajaxian readers and .NET developers is much more open-source-oriented ( not that there's anything wrong with that ) than...(read more)

D'oh! I guess they didn't think about that one...

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:19:00 GMT

Too funny: http://nldd.lordabdul.net//12.html Read More......(read more)

Microsoft now in the OpenAjax steering comittee

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:37:00 GMT

Thanks to all members who voted. I'm looking forward to working with the other members. http://www.openajax.org/blogs/?p=41 Read More......(read more)

.NET framework: now with source code

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:49:00 GMT

Scott just announced it: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx This will make debugging .NET apps a lot easier... Read More......(read more)

OpenAjax InteropFest 1.0: Microsoft's entry

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:21:16 GMT

Yesterday I got to write our entry in OpenAjax's InteropFest . The goal of this event is to demonstrate how different Ajax libraries can be parts of the OpenAjax ecosystem and interact with each other through the OpenAjax hub . The currently central feature of the hub is to expose a publish/subscribe message bus so that both producers and consumers of events can speak through a third party that is neutral to specific Ajax implementations. The OpenAjax Alliance provides a template for demo applications that shows a live data source feeding fake stock quotes through the hub to a visual component that then renders them. I've chosen to modify the live data source to be a Microsoft Ajax-style component. The visual component would not have been as...(read more)