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A few days ago I posted about my adventures with the SEO Toolkit and some of its features for ensuring your site is as SEO friendly as possible. Today I noticed that K.Scott Allen has an article in the September issue of MSDN Magazine entitled "
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Some time back I did a video and some demos on how to create IE8 accelerators, search providers and web slices based around a traffic information site I called Trafficify (I know, it’s not pretty, it was never meant to be published but Ian wanted it up
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Web Application Toolkits provide a packaged set of samples, documentation, templates, controls etc to get up and running quickly with a particular technology. When you just want a bit of help to build an IE8 Accelerator or want to add search to your site,
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I’ve long thought we were missing a trick by not having a hosted service for the ASP.NET AJAX scripts and lo and behold ScottGu has announced a new content delivery network (CDN) for the ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery libraries. That means: Edge cache servers
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The Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG) is hosting another Q&A session with Scott Guthrie tomorrow starting at 5pm UK time. Click here for more details and registration Technorati Tags: scottgu , asp.net , .net
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Last week I talked about how to get started with Windows Azure . In this post I want to take the simple ASP.NET app I’d built and deploy that to the cloud. One of the great things about Windows Azure is all you have to deploy is the app and some configuration
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If you’re not sure what Windows Azure is, may I recommend Steve Marx excellent hand drawn video . The easiest way to get yourself setup to build an Azure application is: Enable Yourself Get yourself a Windows Azure token. This allows you to deploy to
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Just a quick post to provide hooks to the various posts in this series. I’ll add more as I expand on my last post about AJAX features: Visual Studio 2010 Enhancements for ASP.NET ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls
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Another in my unpredictable series on ASP.NET 4.0 , let’s take a look at one of the biggest areas of investment, AJAX. You can break this down into 3 key areas: Refactoring of the ASP.NET AJAX libraries The ability to declaratively instantiate client-side
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I recorded the Vista Squad session with ScottGu from last Friday and have now managed to transcode it, upload it and make a trifle out of it. The screen quality captured from the dedicated camera wasn’t very good so I’ve gone with the single shot from
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As well as doing a Silverlight session at the London .NET User Group on Thursday night, Scott has also offered to do an ASP.NET MVC session this Friday afternoon (3rd July) for Vista Squad at the Microsoft offices just outside Reading from 1pm. For Friday’s
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Picking up where I left off some time back on ASP.NET 4.0 , today we take a look at some of the enhancements we’re making to data controls in ASP.NET 4.0. Let’s start with the easy stuff. Cleaner HTML Over the years we’ve made significant advances in
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I’ve realised that despite all the noise about it , I’ve pretty much managed to ignore the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) to date. Which is a shame because I know it does some pretty cool things, takes a lot of the drudgery out of configuring your machine
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I’d seen this video (as I said to Mark, I find the start a bit creepy) before I saw Mark’s blog post on the subject (which he wrote some time back). It’s a proof of concept focussing on transport and the challenges we all face when negotiating our way
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Apologies if I’ve mentioned this before – I don’t recall doing so but that doesn’t count for much these days! I came across the ASP.NET MVC Training Kit (actually, Mark Quirk put me on to it). According to the blurb “The ASP.NET MVC Training Kit includes
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