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May 2008 - Posts

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3
Bit slow on this having just got back from holiday but Scott has blogged about the latest "official" preview release of the MVC framework . I call it an "official" release to distinguish it from the interim source releases we're making Read More...
SQL Spatial Data Visualiser Updates
I've updated the page I posted yesterday so the app now supports POINT, LINESTRING and POLYGON (simple POLYGONs with no interior boundaries - ie the image on the left (below) is okay, the image on the right is not). I've also posted the source for an Read More...
SQL Spatial Data Visualiser
Hot on the heels of my Sql Spatial Data Generator comes my Sql Spatial Data Visualiser ! Well, sort of. A couple of people have asked me for this but it's not that easy to create an app that lives in the cloud and queries other people's SQL Servers in Read More...
PDC 2008 Registration Open
October 27-30th in the Los Angeles Conference Center, LA is where you want to be. Registration for the Professional Developers Conference 2008 has just opened. You know the deal by now: "The PDC is designed for leading-edge developers and software Read More...
Silverlight Screencasts
A while ago MikeT popped up on IM with a crazy idea to create a set of screencast videos covering the common topics in Silverlight 2 development. Not only that but he wanted to build a custom player to view them. And he wanted to do it in say, a week Read More...
More on ASP.NET Routing
While I've been sunning myself on a Greek Island (Kefalonia - very nice, especially the baclava), Ian has taken my post about using ASP.NET Routing independent of MVC a stage further by including the passing of parameters to the aspx page . Technorati Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Fx 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta
You'll know by now that we've shipped the first beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Fx 3.5 Sp 1 and it contains some elements of what was previously known as the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview. In my recent post about my roadshow session , I talk about Read More...
Off on holiday for a week or so
Normal service (if there is such a thing) will be resumed as soon as possible (around 21st May I should think). Read More...
Using ASP.NET Routing Independent of MVC
One of the demos I've been doing at the MSDN Roadshow is to take the new ASP.NET routing capabilities (currently in preview) and show them in isolation from MVC / Dynamic Data. Although the new routing capabilities were developed for the MVC framework, Read More...
MSDN Flash Article: ASP.NET Silverlight Server Controls
In the next issue of the MSDN Flash Newsletter I write about some of the upcoming features in ASP.NET including two new controls specifically designed to take advantage of the richness provided by Silverlight. The <asp:Silverlight> control allows Read More...
Dynamic Data and MVC in Perfect Harmonee
In my roadshow session I talk about where to get all the latest ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions bits . One word of warning, the latest drop of Dynamic Data (0423) doesn't play well with MVC Preview 2 - stick with the 0408 drop for now if you want to use both. Read More...
ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview - Mixing with "Static" Pages
The ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview is essentially a powerful and flexible scaffolding framework for ASP.NET that allows you to very quickly create and customise data-driven ASP.NET applications. It does this by exploring the Linq to SQL data model and deriving Read More...
MVC Framework - Encapsulating for Re-use
ASP.NET webforms offers a number of different options for re-use including extending existing controls, composite controls, custom controls and user controls. While the ASP.NET MVC framework doesn't support server controls (this isn't strictly true - Read More...
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