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March 2008 - Posts

Monday, March 31, 2008 7:35 PM

JavaScript is Inevitable !

You've heard it. JavaScript is not a REAL programming language. Well, it is NOW. Programming in JavaScript is inevitable. And why not. It is ubiquitous. (Supported by all major browsers.) It supports good Object Oriented Development. There is TONS of
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Monday, March 31, 2008 5:21 PM

Graffiti CMS First Impressions.

I love CMS applications! I've played with more than a hundred free and commercial CMSs written in VB, C#, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, you name it ! It's taken me a while to put Graffiti through it's paces, but I did so last weekend. Here is a quick list
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Monday, March 31, 2008 9:50 AM

Visual Web GUI Webcast Downloads

The PowerPoint Decks and the First Webcast are now available on-demand. Visual WebGui: An Enterprise AJAX application in 20 minutes PPT Deck. View it On-Demand. Visual WebGui: Silverlight for line-of-business application PPT Deck.   Do to a recording
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:10 PM

Windows XP Update "Checking for the latest updates for your computer..." And Checking, and checking....

One of my test machines that is still running Windows XP just HUNG while performing Windows Update Today. At the "Checking for latest updates" page it just kept checking and checking and checking....... It turns out that it was some bad files. Maybe a
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:24 AM

Fixing an ASP.NET 2.0 App after upgrading to 3.5

When you first open an ASP.NET 2.0 website in Visual Web Developer / Visual Studio 2008, VS asks you if you want to upgrade the project to 3.5. As some of you who are using Microsoft AJAX and who say YES to upgrade to 3.5 have noticed, when you go to
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:38 AM

My AJAX World Downloads - AJAX Security & AJAX Patterns Code and PowerPoints

AJAX World was a great confirmation for me. AJAX, RIA, or whatever term you use to describe this "new" way of building web applications is here to stay. Relative to Microsoft, here are a few of my big take-a-ways. Security matters even MORE
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Monday, March 24, 2008 8:58 AM

Live from Redmond - Visual WebGUI Webcasts this Thursday & Friday

Please joind me for these 2 webcasts this Thursday and Friday. VWG is a cool FREE set of tools to accelerate your ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight Web Development. Guy Peled, CTO of Visual WebGui is joining me and he will build applications live during the
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Saturday, March 15, 2008 11:40 AM

Windows Communication Foundation - 65 Links to make you an expert!

Some time ago I posted a list of links to Windows Workflow Foundation Tutorials and since then I've been getting an increasing number of requests for a list of links to WCF tutorials. So, here you go!  Sixty Five Videos and Virtual Labs to make you
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Friday, March 14, 2008 9:07 AM

How Scott Guthrie gets so much work done.

I've known Scott for almost 10 years but when he hired me a few years ago I had no idea how much work he gets done. Apart from managing the teams that deliver a dozen products for Microsoft, he travels and speaks everywhere, writes these detailed blog
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Friday, March 14, 2008 8:42 AM

Getting up to speed with ASP.NET 3.5 and the 3.5 Extensions

I get hundreds of email a day from customers. Yesterday I received three email with the same question. Do you have a few good links for getting up to speed with ASP,NET 3.5 So.... Here you go. ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 http://www.asp.net/downloads/vs2008/
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:29 PM

Some Blog Posts on Silverlight Security

The 2nd presentation at next week's AJAX World is on AJAX Security. After just coming back from MI 08 last week where Silverlight 2.0 was the hot topic, I've been thinking about the Silverlight security model. After all, anytime you install a binary extension
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:08 PM

Utility to Convert Text / HTML to a Visual Basic String

AJAX opens many interesting new doors in terms of how we can tailor the user experience to the customers needs and how we can display content based on any number of state context. This sometimes means fetching and manipulating HTML or XML in our server
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:30 PM

SQL Express - "Failed generate a user instance..."

I Love SQL Server Express. I write demos. Lots of them. SQL Express is great because it's free and works with .MDF files so that I can just bundle up the database with my demo and folks can download a demo, run, and experiment. I'm "learning"
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:34 AM

POSTPONED : Live from Redmond Webcasts this week- VWG !

Due to a glitch in our events tool I need to rescheduole these two great webcasts. Stay tuned here for an update. Please joind me for these 2 webcasts this Thursday and Friday. VWG is a cool FREE set of tools to accelerate your ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight
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Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:38 AM

New ASP.NET Technologies Released around MIX08

Scott Galloway, PM Extraordinaire on the UI team, compiled this cool list of resources concerning the cool stuff for Web Developers at MIX08. You can also posthumously attend MIX08 here http://visitmix.com/ Downloads: - MVC Preview 2 is live at: o English
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:20 AM

New Video Comments Feature on www.ASP.net

We've added a new comments feature to all the Videos posted at www.ASP.net . Complete with a RSS feed for the comments. Check it out and tell us what you think !
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