Keith Barrows

Moved to my personal site.

A lot of people have been asking me how we are going to build an app when most everybody does not have Whidbey yet.  Well, Josh Ledgard has some information on the public release of the Whidbey Bits.  Enjoy!

Please feel free to join the discussions on www.asp.net on both the CSK 1.0 and 2.0 projects.  There are a couple of places to look and name changes to be aware of.

Here is the basic roadmap (starting with the 1.0 release of the CSK).  As we move through the project I will be twiddling some of the future dates a bit.  So, without setting it in stone, here it is:

I've been struggling with setting up secure FTP access on my Win2k-2003, IIS setup.  Scott Forsyth has created a couple of entries that hit it on the head.  Take a look at Mastering IIS FTP - Part 1 - Redirecting Users and Mastering IIS FTP - Part 2 - Virtual Directories/Physical Directories.

As the architecture for the CSK 2.0 continues to come to I will be posting updates here.  :)

This block has re-usable code and samples which show how you can build smart client applications which can operate offline. With this block your application can detect the presence or absence of a network connection, cache data for use while offline, and re-synchronize data and tasks with the network once the application goes online.

I have a team of 4 people putting together the specs for the Community Starter Kit 2.0.  One of the things we are discussing is Trackbacks.  I would love to get feedback from people on how useful Trackbacks would be in a Portal/CMS type application.