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Looking for a solid (literally) book on Silverlight 4? If so, this nearly 800 page behemoth of a book is quite impressive!

Yesterday, I had the honor of presenting at a Windows Phone 7 Unleashed event in Los Angeles. The event consisted of a set of hands on labs (HOLs) and sessions that walked the attendees through the basics of creating applications on the phone. All the material was put together by Daniel Egan, one of our great local evangelists in Southern California. The application built during the labs, called Uncorked; integrated with Wine.com and demonstrated how to leverage launchers and choosers as well as the fundamentals of network calls from the phone: 

There is a subtle change in the .NET 3.5 release of the Microsoft Ajax Library that might catch some developers by surprise when handling asynchronous postback errors. The change can be found at the end of the endPostBack function of the PageRequestManager object. In the first release of the Ajax library, if an error was not handled on the client; an alert box was used to convey to the user the error message:

Originally introduced in the ASP.NET Futures package, the history control in the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions preview comes with a few nice additions. One of the updates is the ability to change the page title when adding a history point. This is important because without updating the title, the history list isn't very much help after a few updates. To illustrate the problem, here is what the history list in IE could look like after adding a few history points:

If you've ever placed a Virtual Earth map or Google map on an HTTPS page then you're probably familiar with the mixed content message that appears when the page loads:

Recently, along with a few others, I've received the honor of joining the ASPInsiders. It has been a true privilege being a part of such a talented and great group and I look forward to sharing and learning from them as much as possible.

The best part about working at Neudesic is the interaction you get with some of the most talented people in the industry. Recently, David Pallmann, one of our Architect Consultants, posted an invaluable series of blogs posts on WCF tips. Here are the links to his most recent posts: 

After a long but rewarding journey I'm happy to announce that our book, ASP.NET AJAX In Action, is finally out! Currently, the book is available in eBook format from the Manning web site. On August 24th (next week), the printed book will be available as well. Source code for the book can be freely downloaded from here.