I've been silent for a long time but have gotten a direct set of questions from a few people recently about what I'm doing. So here's an update. I have relocated to Shanghai as part of the Developer Division global development efforts. My focus has shifted...

After installing the iPhone 1.01 software update, iPhone users may notice that what used to be an asynchronous request from the browser is now a syncrhonous request. They may notice other symptoms of an underlying problems as well. The update changes...

Jim Minatel from Wrox has arranged for an excerpt from the book to be made available online. It's a section titled Enabling Intenret Explorer for Debuggng ASP.NET authored by Dan Wahlin. You can check it out at: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/id...

Update: Changes were made for the final release of Visual Studio 2008 so that the providerOptions requires are included for new web applications. There are a couple of issues and complexities with using partial trust in 'Orcas' beta 2. Below...

Well, I've been asked three times now why I haven't blogged about my book, so here it is. I worked with Dan Wahlin and Wrox to create a book about ASP.NET AJAX. The book covers the UpdatePanel, ScriptManager and other server controls, discusses how the...

The release on Windows Update that contains updates to enable the validator controls to work with the UpdatePanel has been delayed. However, you can download a HotFix that contains the changes. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails...

I recently filmed an episode of the .NET Show with Brad Abrams ( http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/ ) and Bertrand Le Roy ( http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/ ). Brad asked for suggestions of words to work into the interview before we did it ( http://blogs.msdn...

I got the chance to do a Podcast with Wally McClure. You can get to it here .

ASP.NET AJAX provides new APIs for registering script with the ScriptManager. Using these APIs allows controls to work well with partial rendering. Without them, controls placed inside an UpdatePanel won't work as expected. In previous CTP releases of...

The ASP.NET AJAX Release Candidate is available here . A major change between beta2 and the RC is the switch from the Microsoft.Web.* namespace to the System.Web.* namespace. It's a straightforward update to exisiting code and should simplify things going...

At my TechEd whiteboard discussion, we talked about a couple of useful things for AJAX development. One is the WebDevHelper that a software architect, Nikhil Kothari, from the team provides. It is an add-in for Internet Explorer that will monitor the...

Here is one of the samples I was asked for at TechEd last week. How to access session state data from the browser. There are two C# methods in the page. One overrides the the OnLoad method and stores a value in session state for demonstration purposes...

As promised, the slides and code from my TechEd presentation are available here . I got some great feedback from people that have been using the ASP.NET AJAX beta as well as from those who have started looking at the Integrated Pipeline features of IIS7...

Well, just a few short weeks and some very late nights after the first beta was released, we have released beta 2 of ASP.NET AJAX. There are three different pieces you can download: 1) ASP.NET AJAX Extensions beta 2 is available here . This is the...

While I have been preparing for my TechEd Europe presentation next week, I have been asked several times for the blog address where I will post my slides. Starting a blog has been on my list of things to do for some time, so I guess this is the forcing...