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Slides from my ASP.NET Connections talks: WPF/E, LINQ and ASP.NET Tips/Tricks
Earlier this week I presented three breakout sessions at the ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando. Below are the slides / demos for each of the talks I gave:
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Me Presenting at the Space Coast .NET User Group in Florida this Tuesday
I'm in Orlando the next few days presenting at the spring ASP.NET Connections / DevConnections conference. There are about ~1500 people attending this week's conference, which is a great turnout for the spring show (the fall show is in Las Vegas each year in November, and had almost 5,000 people last year).
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ASP.NET AJAX Documentation Update, Videos and Cool Articles
Here is a quick post on some great ASP.NET AJAX focused content that has been published recently:
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Microsoft Joins OpenAJAX Alliance
The OpenAjax alliance is a group of vendors, open source projects and companies using AJAX that are focused on developing common AJAX standards and ensuring interoperability across different AJAX frameworks, tools and technologies. Joining the group will help ensure that the Microsoft AJAX Library and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions integrate well with other AJAX frameworks and server technologies.
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New "Orcas" Language Feature: Extension Methods
Last week I started the first in a series of blog posts I'll be making that cover some of the new VB and C# language features that are coming as part of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" release later this year.
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New C# "Orcas" Language Features: Automatic Properties, Object Initializers, and Collection Initializers
Last week we shipped the March CTP of our Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" release. It is available as a free download by anyone, and can be downloaded as as both a VPC (allowing you to run it in a virtual machine) as well as a standalone setup install (note: if you are running Vista you want to make sure you only use the VPC version). You can download it here.
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Video of Scott Guthrie Shooting Private Donut (and some good ASP.NET AJAX links)
Occasionally I get to do cool non-traditional things as part of my job. Two weeks ago, I was the guest star in a fun "Red vs. Blue" Halo video produced by Rooster Teeth. You can watch it online here (it is 3 minutes in length).
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Tip/Trick: Integrating ASP.NET Security with Classic ASP and Non-ASP.NET URLs
One of the questions I am often asked is "How can I integrate ASP.NET security with Classic ASP other non-ASP.NET URLs?". Specifically, people want to know if they can integrate ASP.NET's Forms Authentication, Role Based Security, and URL Authorization features with Classic ASP, PHP, JSP, .HTM, .JPG and other non-ASP.NET URLs.
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Free SQL Server Training Videos (and other good data tutorial pointers)
Today on the www.asp.net site we posted a great new "How Do I?" video series focused on SQL Server 2005 Express (which you can download and use completely for free).