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• ASP.NET MVC Talk in Reading UK July 3rd

  Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 08:11 by ScottGu

  I’m in the UK today and tomorrow (on my way back from a trip to India for two days earlier this week), and am giving two tech talks while in town.  The first is this evening at a London .NET User Group event.  I’ll be presenting Silverlight 3.  Unfortunately the event is already over-registered – so if you haven’t registered yet you’ll need to catch it the next time I’m in town.

• June 7th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio

  Posted: 07 Jun 2009 at 07:05 by ScottGu

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. You can also now follow me on twitter (@scottgu) where I also post links and small posts. ASP.NET Implementing Incremental Navigation with ASP.NET: A nice article from Andrew Wrigley that describes how to use ASP.NET’s Site Navigation system to create a navigation user interface.

• IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit

  Posted: 03 Jun 2009 at 16:53 by ScottGu

  SEO (search engine optimization) is one of the important considerations that any Internet web-site needs to design with in mind.  A non-trivial percentage of Internet traffic to sites is driven by search engines, and good SEO techniques can help increase site traffic even further. Likewise, small mistakes can significantly impact the search relevance of your site’s content and cause you to miss out on the traffic that you should be receiving.

• Microsoft Web Platform Installer

  Posted: 02 Jun 2009 at 09:21 by ScottGu

  One of the cool new releases coming out this year is a small download manager - the Microsoft Web Platform Installer - that makes installing and configuring web server and web development stacks really easy.  It is a free tool that you can download from the www.microsoft.com/web site (here is the direct link to the installer – choose the 2.0 version).  It works with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

• May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio

  Posted: 30 May 2009 at 22:39 by ScottGu

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.  You can also now follow me on twitter (@realscottgu) where I also post links and small posts. ASP.NET Using ASP.NET 3.5’s ListView and DataPager Controls to Delete Data: Scott Mitchell continues his excellent tutorial series on the ASP.NET ListView control.

• LIDNUG: Free Online Virtual Chat with Me Today

  Posted: 27 May 2009 at 08:47 by ScottGu

  LIDNUG (Linked .NET Users Group) is hosting an online chat with me today (Wednesday) from 11:30am to 1pm PST (Pacific Standard Time).  Anyone is free to join and the agenda topic will be open – so bring your questions! Click here to learn more about how to register and attend it. Hope to chat with you more then, Scott

• Free ASP.NET MVC “NerdDinner” Tutorial Now in HTML

  Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 07:44 by ScottGu

  Last month I blogged about a free end-to-end ASP.NET MVC tutorial called “NerdDinner” that I wrote for the Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book from Wrox Press.  The book is now released and shipping on Amazon.  The NerdDinner tutorial walks through how to build a small, but complete, application using ASP.NET MVC, and introduces some of the core concepts behind it.  You can download a PDF version of the tutorial here. NerdDinner Tutorial Now Also Available in HTML A few minutes ago I finished pu

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0

  Posted: 02 Apr 2009 at 01:53 by ScottGu

  Two weeks ago at MIX we released ASP.NET MVC 1.0.  ASP.NET MVC is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product that enables developers to easily build web applications using a model-view-controller pattern.  ASP.NET MVC provides a “closer to the metal” web programming option for ASP.NET.  It enables full control over HTML markup and URL structure, and facilitates unit testing and a test driven development workflow. Releasing the ASP.NET MVC source code under MS-PL I’m excited tod

• MIX 09

  Posted: 01 Apr 2009 at 06:37 by ScottGu

  Two weeks ago we held our MIX conference in Las Vegas.  MIX is my favorite conference of the year – since it nicely integrates development and design topics together in a single event, and is usually accompanied by some pretty cool product announcements. I gave a first day MIX keynote again this year, and in it I talked about and announced a bunch of new Microsoft web development products.  These included: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (we shipped the final V1 release during MIX) Expression Web 3.0 M

• Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial

  Posted: 10 Mar 2009 at 21:54 by ScottGu

  There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now – announcement coming soon).  As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I’ve been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox.  The book is now in

• Moonlight 1.0 Release

  Posted: 12 Feb 2009 at 01:27 by ScottGu

  I am excited to announce that Novell today released version 1.0 of Moonlight, and is making it available for download at no cost with support for most major Linux distro’s (including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu). For those unfamiliar with it, Moonlight is a joint effort between Novell and Microsoft of an open-source implementation of Silverlight for Linux. My team has worked closely with Miguel de Icaza and his team on the project.  We are also shipping the Micro

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

  Posted: 27 Jan 2009 at 20:13 by ScottGu

  Today we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC).  Click here to download it (note: the link just went live so if it isn’t working wait a few minutes for the server you are hitting to refresh).  It works with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 (which is free). Today’s RC is the last public release of ASP.NET MVC that we’ll ship prior to the final “1.0” release.  We expect to ship the final ASP.NET MVC 1.0 release next month. In addition

• Silverlight and the 2009 Presidential Inauguration

  Posted: 19 Jan 2009 at 20:21 by ScottGu

  Tomorrow’s presidential inauguration of Barack Obama will be a truly historic event. Silverlight is being used as an enabling technology on several sites that will allow those of us who can’t be there in person to share the experience online. Presidential Inaugural Committee The Presidential Inaugural Committee has worked with iStreamPlanet to enable live and live and on-demand video streaming of the Inauguration events at the official Presidential Inaugural Committee web site: www.p

• ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Upcoming View Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate

  Posted: 19 Dec 2008 at 08:44 by ScottGu

  Today we launched a new ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery on the www.asp.net site.  The design gallery hosts free HTML design templates that you can download and easily use with your ASP.NET MVC applications.  Included with each design template is a Site.master file, a CSS stylesheet, and optionally a set of images, partials, and helper methods that support them.  The gallery allows you to preview each of the designs online, as well as download a .zip version of them that you can extract and integrate

• Dec 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight/

  Posted: 02 Dec 2008 at 08:43

  I'm flying out later today on a pretty intense business trip (22,000 miles, 5 countries, 3 continents, 1 week, no sleep... :-), so my blog activity over the next week and a half will be pretty light.  To keep you busy till I return, here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out m

• New ASP.NET Charting Control: <asp:chart runat="server"/>

  Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 06:38

  Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control - <asp:chart /> - that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios: Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls Download the VS 2008 Tool Support for the Chart Controls Download the Micros

• jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008

  Posted: 21 Nov 2008 at 10:07

  Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery.  Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free).  This is now available to download

• Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

  Posted: 17 Nov 2008 at 07:01

  We shipped Silverlight 2 last month.  Over the last 4 weeks, the final release of Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 100 million consumer machines.  It has also recently been published to corporate administrators via the Microsoft SMS and Microsoft Update programs to enable

• Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2

  Posted: 14 Nov 2008 at 10:15

  Silverlight 2 provides a rich platform for building cross-browser/cross-platform RIA applications.  One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects.  Developers can use Visual Studio to open and edit Silverlig

• Nov 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF

  Posted: 06 Nov 2008 at 08:34

  Last week was our big PDC conference, and I've been busy catching up back at work this week.  I'm hoping to publish a bunch of new posts soon (including some on the PDC announcements we made).  Until then, here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks