Eilon Lipton wrote a fantastic article on how to write controls that are "AJAX-aware". By changing just a few typical lines of RegisterClientScript code and using a small bit of Reflection, you can determine if a page is using a ScriptManager or not and...

Scott Guthrie , "The Father of ASP", is speaking at the North Dallas .NET User Group on November 2 nd . Scott is a fantastic speaker and always has some incredibly cool demos to show off. His presentation will include: ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax ASP.NET...

I am hugely appreciative any time that someone finds any of my ramblings useful enough to quote or duplicate. It is amazing to me that anyone ever stumbles upon my blog. While I am certainly not the most grammar-conscious person in any crowd, I admit...

Register quickly at http://teams-deliver.com , as this event is sure to fill up quickly. Atlanta GA 11/30 Boston MA 12/14 Chicago IL 12/12 Cincinnati OH 12/07 Dallas TX 12/13 Denver CO 12/13 Detroit MI 12/05 Ft. Lauderdale...

Want to learn .NET 3.0? Here's your chance to learn it for free. .NET University Doug Turnure, Developer Evangelist extraordinaire, announced .NET University . Want to teach a group on .NET 3.0? Doug will work with you to provide certificates of...

How cool is this? I just read about a great webcast series called "Live From Redmond" that has some really great content in it. The talks are given by the product team members. Personally, I am loving the amount of Atlas coverage coming from the product...

This year, I turn 35. There's a song by Jimmy Buffett called "A Pirate Looks At Forty." Most people would recognize the opening line, "Mother, Mother, Ocean… I have heard you call." Looking back on the past 5 years and how quickly things have changed...

What a lost season. UGA looked decent, but not great, against South Carolina. Since that game, Georgia has looked pretty lackluster. Joe Tereshinski was hurt during the South Carolina game, which coincided with the alumni rumble to have the new hot...

This question came up on an internal list recently (rephrasing the question slightly): I have an ASMX service that is already exposed and is being consumed by a variety of user agents (mobile devices, windows forms, Java clients, etc). I want to change...

The past few blog posts that I have made had some code in them, and the formatting was lost. I am using Word 2007 for posting to my blog (like a good corporate citizen), but was just about to give up. The blog posts are really hard to read when you have...

I firmly believe that every developer ought to be at least familiar with C++, preferably have relevant experience using C++. Sadly, the advent of C# has caused my C++ skills to severely atrophy. Maybe atrophy is an understatement. As an example, I...

As I demo various web service technologies to customers, inevitably someone is really interested in the tools that I am using to trace and inspect messages. My favorite tool for that purpose is tcpTrace , although there are plenty of other trace utilities...