Here is the content I presented at the ESRI User Conference. Please let me know of there are any questions or comments 1488.ESRI UC Deck June 2011 Final.pdf Thanks, Kashif

Cloud computing requires an architecture shift and new development models. Traditional application and data architecture does not enable optimal elastic scalability and maximum utilization of shared infrastructure. To build Cloud-friendly applications...

  Good news for Windows Azure developers using their MSDN Premium or Professional subscription for Windows Azure compute, storage, transactions, bandwidth, SQL Azure database and AppFabric connections and transactions – you can now avail the WA MSDN...

  Are you a SQL Azure user - developing without SQL Server Management Studio or VS2010 to access your SQL Azure database from a design tool to model your database and tables, query execution, adding/updating table data – well then this announcement...

InterGrid, an ISV based out of New Zealand, provides on-demand HPC solutions for ISVs and prosumers (professional consumers). If you are an ISV that builds compute intensive desktop applications that are ‘embarrassingly parallel’ then you can integrate...

Just a few days back, I was talking to a friend of mine who is an avid user of the iPhone. He was lamenting about the fact that he had lost a bunch of his data as he had been locked out of his phone. His 18 month old daughter had entered 10 wrong passwords...

As one looks to on-board the Windows Azure Platform it is important to understand the billing and administration functionality and workflows. The first thing to look at is the end-2-end workflow. To begin with examine the Offers page and specifically...

If you are based in the US and had a chance to experience Olympics 2008 over the web on http://nbcolympics.com - you probably saw some of the power of Silverlight for immersive media experiences. Silverlight 2 Beta 2 enables much more than media experiences...

Late last year .Net Fx 3.5 and VS 2008 was released and part of this release was the Visual Studio Tools for Office 3.0 which enhance the Office development experience and also make it extremely trivial. One of my favorites as part of VSTO 3.0 is Outlook...

Internet Explorer 8 Beta - Making the Web Work For You Earlier this month at the Mix ‘08 conference in Las Vegas the Beta release of the newest version of Internet Explorer was announced. There was particular developer excitement around this release...

Earlier this week, on November 19 th to be precise, the Developer Division group at Microsoft announced the RTM of the fourth major installment of .Net Framework (for anyone counting we have had .Net Fx 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 and though 1.1 is not counted the...

Last week I was at the ESRI dev summit in Palm Springs and gave a couple of talks on ASP.Net AJAX and WPF. Attached are the slide decks for the same. The slides are in Office 2007 format, if someone needs them in any other formats please contact me. ...

Last week I was at the Aspect Consumer Experience conference and attended a session on SIP - here are some notes from the session providing you with all the basic things you need to know about SIP Steps in VOIP are similar to a phone call · Caller...

Here are the presentation slides and samples from today's webcast 'An In-depth Look at the ListView Control'. Please let me know if you have any comments on the control herewith. I will post the webcast recording once it is available. Thanks, Kashif

Yesterday, I was moving some of my samples written for ASP.Net AJAX Beta 2 over to RTM and here are some of the things I encountered that might be useful to you The assembly name has changed from Microsoft.Web.Extensions.* to System.Web.Extensions...

ASP.Net AJAX v1.0 debuted this morning and is now available for download. Check this out or read more on Scott's blog .

When 'ASP.Net AJAX' (formerly codenamed Atlas) was first released for preview back in Sep 2005, one of the controls that was released as part of the preview was the 'ListView' client-side control - the control created the rendering on the fly on the client...

A couple of weeks back I delivered a presentation on ASP.Net AJAX to our ISV partners. Attached are the slides and the follow up Q & A log. Thanks, Kashif

Check out the Mix 07 site and register at an early bird discounted price. Keynotes being delivered Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie ... -Kashif

Last week, the ASP.Net AJAX team took a major step towards getting web developers closer to moving their web applications based on ASP.Net AJAX into production with the release of the RC (the AJAX Futures Dec CTP has also been made available). The release...

Accessibility is an important aspect of software applications. It is ever so important on the web especially to ensure that everyone visiting your site is enabled to access the content. It is also required by a number of government organizations. The...

When using the UpdatePanel feature in ASP.Net AJAX to update portions of the page using async post-backs, there are many different approaches available to handle errors that happen on the server during the async post-back. Let's consider some of these...

Partial rendering in ASP.Net via async post-backs is one of the *MOST* loved and used feature in the ASP.Net AJAX stack. The UpdateProgress control adds value to the partial rendering scenarios by providing the user visual indication of any on-going async...

For all the ASP.Net AJAX (formerly "Atlas") lovers out there, I decided to put together some information (I consider useful) in this blog - this is also for folks who might have missed my webcast on the topic which was delivered on 10/26. The Partial...

Couple of weeks back I was at TechEd 2006 and presented on some early thinking on the ASP.Net - Workflow Foundation (WF) integration story. I am posting the slides to my presentation here and would like to hear on what people might have to say regarding...