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I feel a bit guilty for getting this out late this week, but I’ve been under the weather for the last few days, so what can you do? Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area (plus online events you can view from anywhere)…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also automatically synced to the UGSS...

As part of my demos for the recent MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow events , I decided to take advantage of some existing resources from Community Megaphone to create examples of what you can do with Web Slices and Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8. First, I wrapped the Community Megaphone gadget, which...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area (plus online events you can view from anywhere)…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also automatically synced to the UGSS...

Thanks to everyone who came out for our MSDN Roadshow stops in Reston and Richmond this week. As promised, here are the decks that we presented on Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 for developers. Windows 7 for Developers Internet Explorer 8 for Developers I also mentioned a post on my blog that provides...

Today at 1pm (welcome time 12:30pm), you can join me and my colleague Zhiming Xue for an afternoon of what’s new for developers in Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. If you haven’t yet, you can register for the event here . We’re looking forward to seeing everyone!

June already? How did that happen? Well, before summer gets into full swing, take advantage of some great free opportunities to fill your head with great technical info…note in particular that we’re running two MSDN Roadshows this week in Mid-Atlantic, one in Reston, VA tomorrow (6/2), and another in...

Today is Memorial Day…please remember in your thoughts and prayers all those who have willingly laid down their lives to protect the lives and rights of their fellow men and women. Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area (plus online events...

Microsoft invites you to attend the                              MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow – Summer 2009 AGENDA Session 1: Developing on Microsoft Windows...

I’ve mentioned a couple of workarounds for a specific issue with the ASP.NET Menu control in Internet Explorer 8 in past posts . This one’s a little more general, in terms of how you can set the IE 7 compatible mode for specific pages on your site, or for your entire site. Note that using compatibility...

A while back, I wrote about some workarounds to a problem in how the ASP.NET Menu server control renders in IE. Wally McClure pointed me to a blog entry by Bertrand Le Roy noting the availability of a hotfix for this issue . Note that the hotfix links don’t specifically mention the asp:menu issue, but...

Since I’ve run into this issue myself, I thought I’d share a blog post that offers several possible workarounds while the ASP.NET team is looking at the issue: If you are using the ASP.NET Menu control, you might encounter under certain circumstances an issue where the menu appears as a white box in...

In case you haven’t heard, IE8 RC1 has been released. Many improvements in speed, compatibility and more. And if you’re inclined to help improve compatibility even more for the final release, please consider installing the Report A Webpage Problem IE add-on, which provides a simple means for letting...

Somehow my original post with the resources for my AJAX talk last week at VSLive! disappeared, so here’s a re-post…here are the links to resources, tools, and tips mentioned in my talk, Controlling AJAX when you’re out of control, last week at VSLive! New York: List of JavaScript/AJAX Frameworks:...

And Tim Heuer has a couple of cool accelerators to share: I first saw the accelerators (the artists formerly known as activities) during The Code Trip, when Woody created an IE8 activity for Wikipedia.  It was a convenient tool to have in your right-click toolbox on IE and I loved it (and still...