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• October 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data

  Posted: 02 Oct 2008 at 08:23

  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. ASP.NET Amazon EC2 Support for Windows and ASP.NET: Big news announced this week: Amazon will be o

• jQuery and Microsoft

  Posted: 28 Sep 2008 at 18:32

  jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) find and manipulate HTML elements with

• Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available

  Posted: 26 Sep 2008 at 05:54 by ScottGu

  This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2. There are still a small handful of bugs fixes that we plan to make before we finally ship.  We are releasing today's build, though, so that developers can start to update their existing Silverlight Beta2 application

• ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios

  Posted: 02 Sep 2008 at 13:22 by ScottGu

  This past Thursday the ASP.NET MVC feature team published a new "Preview 5" release of the ASP.NET MVC framework.  You can download the new release here.  This "Preview 5" release works with both .NET 3.5 and the recently released .NET 3.5 SP1.  It can also now be

• Quick Update

  Posted: 02 Sep 2008 at 13:21 by ScottGu

  I've received a number of (very nice) emails recently asking if I was ok - since my blog has been silent the last few weeks (and much of the summer).  Just to address people's concerns - I'm alive and well. :-)  I've just been on vacation the last 6 weeks, and have unfortunately not had f

• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1)

  Posted: 14 Jul 2008 at 10:18 by ScottGu

  The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week.  The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC.  Starting with Preview 4 this w

• Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released

  Posted: 07 Jun 2008 at 03:50 by ScottGu

  Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today.  You can download both Silverlight 2 Beta2 and the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools support to target it here. Beta2 adds a lot of new features (more details below), but is still a 4.6 MB download that takes less than 10 seconds to install on a m

• ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

  Posted: 02 Jun 2008 at 02:50 by ScottGu

  Last week I blogged about the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release.  One important thing I forgot to mention about this release is that you can now use it with both Visual Studio 2008 as well as the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition.  The SP1 release of Visual Web Developer 2008 Exp

• ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release

  Posted: 27 May 2008 at 21:26 by ScottGu

  This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework.  I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release.  Today's build includes some additional features not in last month's drop, some ni

• May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF

  Posted: 21 May 2008 at 06:02 by ScottGu

  Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately.  Below is a new post in my link-listing series to help kick things up a little.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to

• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

  Posted: 12 May 2008 at 17:51 by ScottGu

  Earlier today we shipped a public beta of our upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases.  These servicing updates provide a roll-up of bug fixes and performance improvements for issues reported since we released the products last November.  They also contain a number of feature addit

• Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Book (only $16 on Amazon for a short time)

  Posted: 06 May 2008 at 09:38 by ScottGu

  One of the things I like to track are book sales on Amazon.com, which provides a useful data point to monitor what developers are interested in on any given day.  I use the www.TitleZ.com site (which is built using ASP.NET) to track specific titles I want to watch - it then generates a report

• April 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight

  Posted: 29 Apr 2008 at 06:35 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. ASP.NET Displaying the Number of Active Users on an ASP.NET Site: Scott Mitchell continues his exc

• Slides from my ASP.NET Connections Orlando Talks

  Posted: 28 Apr 2008 at 05:51 by ScottGu

  Last week I presented at the ASP.NET Connections Conference in Orlando.  I gave a general session talk on Monday, and then two breakout talks later that day.  You can download my slides+samples below: General Session The slides for my keynote can be downloaded here.  In the talk I de

• ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh Preview

  Posted: 17 Apr 2008 at 05:56 by ScottGu

  We recently opened up a new ASP.NET CodePlex Project that we will be using to provide previews (with buildable source code) for several upcoming ASP.NET features and releases. Last month we used it to publish the first drop of the ASP.NET MVC source code.  This first drop included the source f

• April 11th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight

  Posted: 11 Apr 2008 at 08:04 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. ASP.NET More ASP.NET Security Tutorials: The last three of Scott Mitchell's excellent ASP.NET secu

• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Available

  Posted: 10 Apr 2008 at 08:44 by ScottGu

  A few months ago we released an ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview that contained a bunch of new features that will be shipping later this year (including ASP.NET AJAX Improvements, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Silverlight Support, and ASP.NET Dynamic Data). The ASP.NET Dynamic Data support within that preview

• Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls

  Posted: 04 Apr 2008 at 09:37 by ScottGu

  One of the fundamental design goals of Silverlight and WPF is to enable developers to be able to easily encapsulate UI functionality into re-usable controls. You can implement new custom controls by deriving a class from one of the existing Control classes (either a Control base class or from a con

• Unit Testing with Silverlight

  Posted: 02 Apr 2008 at 10:01 by ScottGu

  One of the important capabilities we shipped with the Beta1 release of Silverlight 2 was a unit test harness that enables you to perform both API-level and UI-level unit testing.  This testing harness is cross browser and cross platform, and can be used to quickly run and verify automated unit

• March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

  Posted: 28 Mar 2008 at 08:08 by ScottGu

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Three New ASP.NET Security Tutorials Now Available: Scott Mitchell continues his great ASP.NET security tutorials. These