Keith Smith's Blog

Without much fanfare, I’m back. What brings me from my blogging hiatus? Last week’s Expression Studio 2 launch, of course. My team and I have been working on this release at a breakneck pace this past year and have been deeply focused on launch since...

Designer extraordinaire, Celso Gomes, has created a new blog for designers on Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation and Expression Studio tutorials . The coolest feature is his tutorial engine is built in Silverlight as well. The first set of tutorials...

Well this latest news is enough to bring me back from my blogging hiatus. At 3:00 PM Pacific, CNET announced Microsoft Silverlight as the Webware 100 Award winner in the Publishing category. We are very honored and excited about this award considering...

Today, during the MIX07 Keynote, Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie unveiled the .NET capabilities of Silverlight and previews of the latest Expression Studio and Visual Studio tools for building Silverlight applications. This announcements comes on the heels...

Today, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Silverlight , a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications...

I am sure you have heard the news already but wanted to post anyway following a long day of meetings and press briefings that prevented me from doing so sooner. Well, the rumors are true: Microsoft has officially joined OpenAjax Alliance (OAA) . Over...

I am excited to announce the launch of a new, free, 2-hour " Developing Enhanced Web Experiences with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Extensions " clinic created by Microsoft E-Learning . The delivery of this clinic helps us reach a major milestone in our content...

Sam Spencer, Program Manager on the Web Development Tools team, has posted a quick overview of some of the new CSS editing capabilities coming in VS "Orcas." He writes about how the designer and CSS property grid tool window make it easy to analyze and...

ASP.NET AJAX Architect, Nikhil Kothari , has released 3 updated server controls (one existing, two new) for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0: UpdateHistory A non-visual control that allows you to add history entries to the browser's navigation stack selectively for some...

Now that the "WPF/E" February 2007 CTP is available, I'm sure many of you want to see how cool it is and want to know what all the buzz is about? Just point your browser to http://www.vista.si/ and experience the better Web of the future. If your...

Want to save some serious time developing your ASP.NET 2.0 Web sites using Visual Studio 2005? Tired of mundane copy & paste or tedious global search-and-replace as your primary tools for cleaning up your code? Do you want to make your ASP.NET 2.0...

I am wrapping up my week by clearing the backlog of blogging I intended to do but have not had time until now. If you have not already heard, Molly E. Holzschlag , of Web Standards Project (WaSP) fame has signed on to lend her experience and expertise...

The official ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 documentation was released today and includes samples, tutorials, samples in addition to API references. So we have shipped the product, released the source and now the updated docs are available for download. We are still...

If you have read the main ASP.NET Community Site page or Scott's blog today, you already know we have delivered on our promise to make the ASP.NET AJAX source code available following last week's release. Here is the blurb... Following the release of...

The DownloadCENTER at IIS.net is an inclusive community destination for discovering new components, modules and 3rd-party solutions related to the Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server. With the worldwide release of Windows Vista tomorrow, this...

We have released ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and it is now available for immediate download on our newly redesigned ASP.NET AJAX Community Site . You can read more about this major milestone on Scott's blog . There are 4 things that excite me the most about this...

As you may have already read over on Glavs Blog , Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX was recently awarded the Developer.com Product of the Year 2007 award in the " .NET Tool or Add-in " category. Other finalists in that category included some very popular tools:...

Registration for the Microsoft MIX 07 event opened last week. MIX is targeted at Web developers, designers, online advertising professionals and a broad set of partners and customers. This year's event will continue to explore how to build more interactive...

My colleague, Pete , product manager for Internet Explorer , recently posted a write-up on the IE Team Blog detailing some cool work the group is doing to help Web designers & developers prepare for Internet Explorer 7.0 while still having access...

ASP.NET CSS Friendly Control Adapters 1.0 has been released and is now available to help you build XHTML 1.1 compliant markup quickly & easily using built-in ASP.NET 2.0 UI controls. Since the kits debut it has received tons of praise and generated...

As part of today's keynote presentation at ZendCon , Bill Staples , Microsoft's Product Unit Manager for Internet Information Services (IIS) , announced a new collaboration with Zend to improve performance and stability of PHP on Windows. This isn't just...

Since we release the Beta of ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 (code-name "Atlas") about a week ago, there has been a ton of buzz throughout the trade press and developer community. The buzz was mostly anticipated considering we have made many visible and behind-the...

For a limited time only (until Windows Vista launches) you can get free training on some of the coolest, new features of .NET Framework 3.0. The three 2-hour e-Clinics offered by Microsoft Learning cover topics including: Windows Presentation Foundation...

I am pleased to announce the availability of a new video series of side-by-side comparisons showcasing the web development capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 vs. Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver 8. There is a set of tasks every web developer...

Congratulations to all the winners of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Mash-It-Up contest . They are: Grand Prize Winner : GeotagIt! created by Alessandro Gallo (Garbin) First Prize Winners : Activeds created by Laijun Xie GPS Trainer...