Scott Hunter

After we shipped .NET 4 we began working on the next version of the framework and one of the things that we have worked on for the next version of the framework is more support for HTML 5. We think that HTML 5 is so important that we have taken many of...

A little over a six months ago we blogged about the work that Microsoft was doing with jQuery plugins (jQuery Templates, Globalization, and Data Link). This post provides a little more information on the current status and on the plans for those plugins...

I want to announce a couple of changes we have made to the Microsoft CDN recently. Updated jQuery We have added both jQuery 1..4.3 and jQuery 1.4.4 to the CDN, plus there are vsdoc files for both of these releases. These new releases are available...

Today we released all kinds of goodness at Microsoft for ASP.NET developers: - Web Pages Beta 2 – An update to our new support for adding simple Razor syntax pages to to web applications. - MVC 3 Beta – An update to our preview release from a few months...

One of the common things people want to do when displaying data with grid controls is to have the little up and down arrows next to the header columns to indicated what direction the data is being sorted in. You see this in Windows Explorer and many other...

We did a variety of small feature items across the data controls when we were working on .NET 4 and I’m going to do a couple of blog posts on some of this new functionality. When we were building Dynamic Data we made small enhancements to the data controls...

We introduced a lot of little data enhancements in .NET 4 that you may not have heard about. One of these is a mechanism for setting the default value of fields in a data control when you want to do an Insert. In our controls today you would probably...

Are you interested in making a change? Do you want to join a fast moving team inside of Microsoft and help drive the future features in ASP.NET?We have a program manager position on the ASP.NET team which is currently available. You can access the listing...

On Wednesday we are releasing .NET 4 / Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 to the public and  it brings many cool enhancements to the ASP.NET data controls and Entity Framework. I’m going to drill into a few features of these data related features and you...

Today we released the newest preview release of Dynamic Data. You can view the details and download this release from here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=27026 .   The preview releases of Dynamic Data contain much...

Last week at the Mix conference in Las Vegas we released a whitepaper that contain a list of many of the items that we are adding to ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. The paper provides an overview of what we expect to be in the first beta release ...

One of the things that we worked on supporting in Dynamic Data is the ability for third party controls like Grids to be able to host DynamicControls. Basically allowing the developer to use controls that are fancier or have more features then the stock...

There was an update to the .NET 3.5 SP1 release a couple of days ago and I have not seen a lot of mention to it so thought I would write a blog post and talk about how this update affects ASP.NET. First off you can search for KB959209 in the Microsoft...

Eilon Lipton and I have spent the week in Malmo, Sweden at the the Oredev conference. Here is the schedule of our talks:   November 19th – Get to Know the ASP.NET MVC Framework November 20th – ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap November 20th – Advanced ASP.NET...

One of the questions we often get is how do you secure Dynamic Data websites. Michael Miele one of the technical writers that writes the documentation for ASP.NET wrote a great sample that shows how to do this using Form Authentication and Roles that...

Just got back from PDC 2008 last week, we showed all kinds of cool new stuff. Here is a list of links for the videos of all the ASP.NET sessions:   ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap - http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC20/ ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building...

I'm really happy to announce that earlier this week we released a new feature called Image Generation to the ASP.NET CodePlex site . You can get a link directly to the page supporting this feature by clicking on: http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Wiki/View...

Today we posted a beta update to solve a couple of problems with Dynamic Data and Entity Framework that are in the RTM version of .NET 3.5 SP1. The main issue is a slight mis-match in the names that Dynamic Data looks for in Entity Framework and the names...

Today we shipped .NET 3.5 SP1 which includes Dynamic Data. This means that the Dynamic Data RTM release is now available. Here are the links to download the final versions: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (also includes .NET 3.5 SP1): http://www.microsoft.com...

This week at Redmond we have the ASP.NET Insiders up here where we show them a bunch of the new stuff we are working on. I'm happy to announce that we have many new update for Dynamic Data that are available today: 1) Dynamic Data Runtime and Dynamic...

Last week I had a great chat with Craig Shoemaker on Dynamic Data. We talked about using Dynamic Data in existing applications, some about our new Futures release and some about upcoming work on having an MVC version of Dynamic Data. You can check out...

Yesterday I posted about how to add Dynamic Data to an existing website and I got some feedback about how to add Dynamic Data to an existing web application. Web application projects work a little different the website projects, you can check out the...

I've had various people ask me if Dynamic Data can be added to an existing website and I've compiled a list of steps to do this. We hope to add a tooling gesture to Visual Studio in the future to automatically do these steps. Once these steps are complete...

I posted a sample back in January on how to display images from databases or the file system using Dynamic Data. You can view that post HERE . I've just updated that sample to fix some bugs and add some new functionality. You can download the latest version...

A few weeks ago I did an interview with Carl and Richard from .NET rocks on Dynamic Data. You can listen to it here: http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=349 .