Joe is working on recommended book sections for each forum in the ASP.NET forums. If you have a favorite book that Joe should know about, send him an email with a pointer to the book (title and author) so he can review it and add it to the site.
Thanks,
Simon.
Yesterday we rolled out Live Search integration on www.asp.net. Type what you are looking for in the space in the navigation bar and up come the results. Use the tabs at the top of the results window to do a search specific to weblogs.asp.net or forums.asp.net.
Enjoy,
Simon.
Last night we launched the Community Recognition Program for the www.asp.net site, which seeks to recognize each person’s contribution to the site.
Historically the greatest contribution has been in the forums, where many people moderate and answer questions from developers. More recent initiatives include the ability for people to submit articles for the home page, to provide suggestions for content (see the Videos page), to vote on polls (see the By the Community, For the Community program), and to publish weblog entries (see the Community Blogs page). Then with the launch of the German, Spanish, French and Chinese foreign-language sites, there are even more levels of contributions that people are making to the site.
The Community Recognition Program will keep track of each person's contributions and publish the details for all to see. The program is very simple. Various activities on the site have points associated with them, and when a community member does that activity he or she will receive that many points. Specifically, here's the current set of activities and points for each:
|
Location |
Activity |
Description |
Points |
|
Forums |
Reply |
You reply to a thread started by another member |
2 |
|
|
Answer Post |
Your reply is marked as the answer |
10 |
|
|
Mark Post as Answer |
You mark a post as the answer |
1 |
|
|
Moderate a Post ** |
You approve a post |
1 |
|
Blogs |
Aggregated Post ** |
Your weblog post is aggregated on the Community Blogs page |
5 |
|
|
Foreign Language Post ** |
Your weblog post is aggregated on one of the foreign-language sites |
10 |
|
Content |
Submit an Article |
You submit an article which is accepted for the home page |
10 |
|
|
Create Original Content |
You submit a tutorial or tool that is accepted for the site |
100 |
|
|
Translate Content ** |
You translate some content for use on one of the foreign-language sites |
variable |
|
|
Vote on a Poll |
You vote on any poll on the site |
1 |
|
|
Suggestion |
You submit a suggestion through one of the suggestion boxes on the site |
1 |
** By invitation only
As a community member earns more points, he or she will progress through five different levels, starting with Member and ending with All-Star:
|
Level |
Name |
Points |
|
|
Member |
1 |
to |
750 |
|
|
Participant |
751 |
to |
2000 |
|
|
Contributor |
2001 |
to |
7500 |
|
|
Star |
7501 |
to |
15000 |
|
|
All-Star |
over |
15000 |
To start the ball rolling, we awarded 5 points for each forum post a member has contributed to date. Check out the Community Recognition Program home page for full information on the program and see the Hall of Fame page for lists of the top contributors in the community. View your own profile to learn of your own Level within the program.
Happy holidays and have fun contributing,
Simon.
PS - Now you know why my blog has been quiet for the last two months J
The feedback continues to be highly positive about this series of webcasts, so we are offereing the third installment of the Live From Redmond webcasts. These webcasts are done by actual team members working on the technology itself - so if you have a question you won't get any closer to the source than here.
Upcoming Smart Client Talks
|
Date |
Title |
Speaker |
Registration URL |
|
7-Nov |
Live From Redmond: ClickOnce Tips and Tricks and what’s new in Orcas |
Saurabh Pant |
link |
|
14-Nov |
Live From Redmond: Smart Client: Offline Data Synchronization and Caching for Smart Clients |
Steve Lasker |
link |
|
28-Nov |
Live From Redmond: Client Application Services in Orcas |
Saurabh Pant |
link |
|
4-Dec |
Live From Redmond: Visual Studio: Developing Local and Mobile Data Solutions with SQL Server Everywhere |
Steve Lasker |
link |
|
Dec 6 |
Live From Redmond: IronPython: Developing agile but rich client applications using Python |
Mahesh Prakriya |
link |
Upcoming Web Talks
|
Date |
Title |
Speaker |
Registration URL |
|
10-Oct |
Live From Redmond: Introducing the Microsoft AJAX Libraries |
Joe Stagner |
link |
|
10-Oct |
MSDN Webcast: Application Services in "Atlas" |
Mir Tariq |
link |
|
19-Oct |
Live From Redmond: Introducing the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions |
Joe Stagner |
link |
|
26-Oct |
Live From Redmond: An In-depth Look at UpdatePanel |
Kashif Alam |
link |
|
2-Nov |
Live From Redmond: Enriching Existing ASP.NET Applications with ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions |
Richard Ersek |
link |
|
9-Nov |
Live From Redmond: Introducing the Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit |
Joe Stagner |
link |
|
16-Nov |
Live From Redmond: Building your own Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX control extender. |
Joe Stagner |
link |
|
21-Nov |
Live From Redmond: Using the Microsoft AJAX Library with “other” server technologies. |
Joe Stagner |
link |
|
30-Nov |
Live From Redmond: Microsoft AJAX Patterns - Implementing Predictive Fetch with Microsoft AJAX |
Joe Stagner |
link |
|
8-Dec |
Live From Redmond: An in-depth look at the "ListView" control |
Kashif Alam |
link |
|
12-Dec |
Live From Redmond: Team development on web applications |
Jim Bresler |
link |
I hope to see you at some of these talks,
Simon.
This morning we launched the Simplified Chinese section and the German section on www.asp.net to provide web developer content in those specific languages.
I’d like to say a special thank you to the community members who helped review the sites before launching, specifically Xuegen Jin, Colt Kwong, Junmin Lui, Shijie Ma, Michael Schwarz, Zhenlin Tan, Damir Tomicic, Alexander Zeitler, Xinglin Zhu, and Ye Zhu.
If you find additional content that