ScottGu's Blog

As you might have already heard, earlier today Microsoft released to manufacturing (aka RTM'd) Windows Vista.  This is a huge milestone, and the product contains a ton of great features and value.  I've been running it as my only operating system since July, and have been really impressed the last few months (I haven't had a single crash or issue with it since RC1 - despite using it heavily 12+ hours every day).

I had a great time presenting for a few hours to the North Dallas .NET User Group this past Thursday.  I covered two topics:

I've blogged several times in the past about how cool IIS 7.0 is.  Many of my posts have highlighted some of the rich new ASP.NET and .NET developer opportunities it brings (integrated pipeline, unified web.config configuration, integrated admin tool experience, etc).  It is really going to open up huge developer opportunities and provide an immensely customizable web-server for people to use.

Luis Abreu is an ASP.NET MVP who has a great blog on the http://msmvps.com blog site.  Earlier today he posted a great tutorial post that describes how to use some of the new features in the ASP.NET AJAX Beta1 release to add more robust error handling into your application.  I highly recommend reading and bookmarking it for future use.

I've blogged in the past about the great CSS Control Adapters that Russ and Heidi have been working on.  These adapters use a new built-in extensibility mechanism in ASP.NET 2.0 called "control adapters" that allow you to plug-in into any ASP.NET server control and override, modify and/or tweak the rendering output logic of that control.

I'm very excited to have the opportunity to present at the North Dallas .NET User Group on November 2nd (next Thursday). 

I've been having some fun playing around with the ASP.NET AJAX Beta release this weekend.