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Monday, February 16, 2009 5:16 PM

Me, Myself and My Phone

I apologize for being so inactive on my blog for the past few months. I switched to the Mobile Services division in June to work on a V1 consumer mobile service - My Phone. Microsoft My Phone has had so much buzz even before it was released. However,
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:19 AM

Using UpdatePanels with ModalPopups

Moving an old post over from my old Technet blog to this MSDN blog. One of the most frequently asked questions on the Toolkit forums and at MIX after Shawn's demo was how to get UpdatePanels to work right with ModalPopups . The trick is to understand
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:54 PM

Spinning-in-Control

In my previous blog post I talked about how easily you could achieve a spinning/rotator functionality in Silverlight with existing controls. I promised that I would come back with a more reusable solution, so here it goes. A more organized attempt at
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Attachment(s): Spinners.zip
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:42 PM

Spinning out of control!

What's going on? Well...I was wondering what control to explore this week. Currently I have my Sherlock hat on and trying to filter down the list of necessary controls using the Silverlight framework to meet the most common Rich Internet Application requirements.
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Attachment(s): Spinner.zip
Monday, April 21, 2008 11:50 PM

Community in Control!

Lately my Toolkit tasks involve working with passionate members who are making it a great, self-sustaining community project. How is that? They are contributing in the following two ways: Patches : Patches are mostly for small bug fixes or feature additions
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Saturday, March 08, 2008 1:30 AM

Why don't you Slide-r?

In this post, I hope to give an introduction to the Silverlight Slider that is part of the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 SDK and share with you some interesting usage scenarios that demonstrate how to use the Slider API's and change its default look and feel.
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Attachment(s): SliderNoThumbSamples.zip
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:28 PM

Struck by Silver-lightening!

The cat is out of the bag, yes, Silverlight 2 Beta 1 is now available for everybody to download and use. My past few months have been spent learning Silverlight 2 and building Silverlight 2 controls. Controls I worked on: I was on the team responsible
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Friday, February 29, 2008 3:00 PM

Feb 29th Toolkit Release!

You can experience the new Toolkit here . As has been the case with the last couple of releases, it includes binaries and source for both .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.5. Please post any issues you run into on our forums . Mucho thanks to our
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Monday, November 19, 2007 6:12 PM

Toolkit for .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008

We have created a new Toolkit release 11119 that goes hand in hand with the official release from the Developer Division in Microsoft of the product code-named "Orcas" that packages a new version of Visual Studio and a new .NET Framework . We have introduced
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 2:23 PM

Rich Text Editor is here

I am super excited to announce that Kannan Sundararajan , my colleague at Microsoft, has written a Rich Text Editor control using ASP.NET and JavaScript and shared it under the MS-PL license on CodePlex. It has a very rich feature set and Kannan hopes
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:50 PM

Custom Tabs

Shawn , the grand Toolkit poobah and my manager, forwarded me a great post by Andrew Cushen that talks about some of the quirks that one runs into when styling Tabs in the Ajax Control Toolkit. We will look into the issue that requires the workarounds
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Attachment(s): CustomTabs.zip
Monday, October 15, 2007 4:42 PM

How do I contribute to the Toolkit?

We have been brainstorming ideas to get community contributions in the Toolkit for almost a year now. After long deliberation we now have a plan and would like to try it out. If these are some questions on your mind? How do I fix a bug in the Toolkit?
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 5:41 PM

Blog anachronisms

I have been moving some of my Technet blog posts over to this blog that I think are still relevant, although, adding them now has resulted in a chronological disarray that may make my blog seem a little confusing. I hope that it should not be the case
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:44 AM

How to make localization in the Toolkit work for you?

FAQ # ...: Why does the Toolkit add resources binaries to a website's bin directory? To explain the motivation behind this I have put up a wiki on our CodePlex site that details how to make the most of the Localization features without getting overwhelmed
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:31 AM

Cascading AutoComplete

We have received a lot of feedback from users about not being able to pass additional information to the AutoComplete webservice which limits their usage of the extender. We decided to absorb that input and add support to all extenders that issue XmlHttpRequests
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Attachment(s): CascadingAutoComplete.zip
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