The major search engines index HTML text elements (body text, title, image alt text, etc) and following anchor tag (<a href= />) links. Currently none of the search engines index XAML. However many Silverlight web applications have dynamic...

Last week at MIX07 Nathan Buggia and I presented a talk on Search enabling dynamic web content applications including ASP.NET and Silverlight web applications. Download the deck and stream or download the video. Updated The BasicSearch.zip sample...

Neil wrote a cool location events mashup based my earlier Atlas Map sample. Cool work!

Steve Lasker has some great material on his blog about the recent SQL Server Everywhere CTP announcement. The download is just 1.7MB, which is smaller than a hi-resolution picture from my Canon digital camera. The same database that runs on my Audiovox...

A couple of of my favorite keyboard shortcuts: Task Manager - Ctrl+Shift+Esc Do a check on memory and CPU usage Run a program - Window Key + R Start cmd Start Explorer - Windows Key + E Manage filesystem You can find a nice list at: Keyboard shortcuts...

Atlas has a great map control for Virtual Earth (also known as Windows Live Local ). The map control makes it super easy to build a mashup with Atlas of displaying the locations of a couple of National Parks on a map. The posting describes how to...

Enjoy the new Atlas documentation at http://atlas.asp.net/docs/ . There are a bunch of new tutorials for using UpdatePanel , enriching ASP.NET pages , building mashups with Atlas and creating a gadget for live.com . There are server and client reference...

This winter the Atlas team has been busy working on the next Atlas CTP. This morning we released the 'Atlas' March 2006 CTP at the MIX06 conference! Get the bits at: http://atlas.asp.net/ . You can find the detailed changed list: http://weblogs.asp.net...

Here is an ASP.NET webcast I recorded that provides a technical overview of Atlas. This webcast covers the areas below with a number of demos and I answer questions from the webcast attendees. Update : You can now download the .wmv file for offline viewing...

Someone asked me how they could execute code when an Atlas page first loaded. In the 'Atlas' xml-script declarative section, add a load attribute to the <application element. The load attribute points to your javascript function. Its that simple. ...

Today we released the ASP.NET 'Atlas' Wiki for download as sample kit. Download the 'Atlas' Wiki VSI , create your own wiki in VS 2005 or Visual Web Developer and have fun exploring the code. enjoy -jhawk

Earlier this week we posted our October ASP.NET 'Atlas' update . Keep the ASP.NET 'Atlas' Forum feedback coming! thanks jhawk

Slides and demos for my ASP.NET Connections talks: AMS351:Developing an ASP.NET Server Control with Design-Time Support (9634KB) AMS255: Developing Rich Web Applications with ASP.NET “Atlas” (505KB) enjoy -jhawk (updated the download links...

Kent Sharkey (who manages our ASP.NET Dev Center) says that our ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model series of whitepapers are live on MSDN - 10 parts, 120 pages! The providers page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/providers/default.aspx will be updated...

This morning I had the privilege to present two ASP.NET talks to the San Diego .NET User Group at their Fall 2005 Technical Summit . The talks covered “Developing Rich Web Applications with ASP.NET ‘Atlas’ ” and “Migrating an ASP.Net 1.x application to...

We posted the ASP.NET 'Atlas' Blank project and Hands-on-Lab VSIs that work with Visual Studion 2005 RC at: http://atlas.asp.net/ enjoy! -jhawk

JD from the Patterns and Practices team have written some great ASP.NET 2.0 Security papers. ASP.NET 2.0 Security Guidance Index: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/ASPNET2SecurityGuidanceIndex.asp?frame=true ASP.NET 2.0 Security...

Simon wrote a couple more ASP.NET 'Atlas' control quickstarts. These have been posted at: at http://atlas.asp.net/quickstart/atlas/doc/controls/default.aspx . You can find all the quickstarts at: http://atlas.asp.net/quickstart/ Please keep the great...

At PDC05 Seth Demsey gave a great talk about the new Web Service API for MSN Search. You can get started by going to http://search.msn.com/developer to sign up for an AppID (takes 10 seconds) and download the SDK. The AppID is basically a GUID that...

Tuesday, September 13 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM PRS401 ASP.NET: Developing an Advanced ASP.NET Server Control with Rich Design-Time 403 AB 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM PRS404 ASP.NET: Developing Advanced Custom Providers for Membership and Role Manager 404 AB Wednesday...

This morning we announced the release of the ASP.NET ‘Atlas’ Technology Preview this morning at PDC05. ASP.NET ‘Atlas’ has a large number of features. There is a suite of server controls that are familiar to our ASP.NET developers and provide Visual...

It has been a very long time since I last posted, in fact it was at PDC 2003. It is good to be back. A year ago I moved over to scottgu's team to help get ASP.NET 2.0 out the door and start some long lead work. More about ASP.NET 'Atlas' in a future post...