Kirk Evans Blog

If you use the Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer to add a new page to your site, you will see that it looks just like any other ASP.NET page. Open up your site with the SharePoint Designer, and then go to the Pages folder. Right-click the Pages folder...

It has been a long time since I did any work with the XmlHttpRequest object directly. Most of my XML geekery is done using .NET on the server side with web services, and ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 eliminated my need to directly touch XmlHttpRequest from JavaScript...

Nick Malik has a great blog on Central Planning , comparing a city council's zoning board to enterprise architects. The pull-quote from that post: Most IT architects don't understand the boundary between solution architecture and enterprise architecture...

You've heard snippets of details about what this thing code-named "WPF/e" could do, maybe even downloaded the CTP. At the National Association of Broadcasters event, Microsoft announced the official name Silverlight . This announcement is more than just...

InfoQ posts about 5 short demos on features you will find in Orcas . Glad to see some buzz being generated about Visual Studio "Orcas" features, but... The Data team's post (the one that the InfoQ article points to) is a little misleading . The post...

Jeff Sanquist has a great post about the Wired Magazine Article on Channel 9 . the story has finally shipped in the magazine and is also available online . There are a number of gems in this piece that talk about the traffic growth of Channel 9, the...

Dan Wahlin has a great post on ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks . Honestly, I talk about ASP.NET 2.0 to customers at least twice a week, and I didn't know about some of these tips. His blog entry shows how ASP.NET 2.0 makes it easy to: Maintain the position...

Roger Jennings went through the pain so that you don't have to. Go to his blog to read how to install that huge 5.32 GB ISO image for "Orcas" (hint: you most likely won't be able to burn it to a physical DVD).