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January 2008 - Posts

Microsoft Ajax Library Book Published
I recently got a copy of Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials: Client-side ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Explained by Cristian Darie and Bogdan Brinzarea . I think it is very, cool that there is a whole book on the Microsoft Ajax Library ( download )... I think this Read More...
Posted 31 January 08 11:35 by BradA | 5 Comments   
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Video from Building a Great Media Driven Web Site (with Silverlight and ASP.NET)
A while back I did a customer briefing about how to use Silverlight and ASP.NET to build a great media driven web site. You can find the write-up, demo, and slides on my original post. Recently, I got a hold of the video! Read More...
Posted 30 January 08 08:47 by BradA | 3 Comments   
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ASP.NET MVC Example Application over Northwind with the Entity Framework
Over last month over the holidays, Lance Olson and I spent some time porting ScottGu's excellent MVC example over the Entity Framework . I thought I'd share the results here and get your thoughts\feedback. For this example, you will need: VS2008 (Free Read More...
Posted 29 January 08 10:14 by BradA | 39 Comments   
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Senior Developers for ASP.NET and Silverlight Wanted!
There has never been a more exciting time to be a web developer! The pace of innovation in the web space is amazing. Ajax, MVC, Dynamic Data, and Silverlight! My team owns growing these platform technologies to the next level, making them great for the Read More...
Posted 28 January 08 06:03 by BradA | 11 Comments   
Book Review: Made to Stick
I just finished reading (ok... listening) to Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. The authors do a great job at expanding on some ideas on how to make ideas resonate and, well, stick with your audience... This is a key skill for any Program Read More...
Posted 27 January 08 04:08 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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WPF Coming into the mainstream with excellent component vendor support
I love the ecosystem around Microsoft technology... The 3rd party component vendors add some much jazz and productivity to our platforms. I recently saw a list of the component vendors already shipping products for WPF and I couldn't help but share it. Read More...
Posted 23 January 08 09:06 by BradA | 21 Comments   
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ASP.NET Personal Web Site Starter Kit - Ajax Enabled with .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008
I recently grabbed the ASP.NET Personal Web Site Starter Kit that we wrote for VS2005\.NET Framework 2.0 and opened it up in VS2008 to see how the new tool and platform could help. It was fun and painless to Ajax Enable the site with the new features Read More...
Posted 21 January 08 11:55 by BradA | 25 Comments   
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Pictures from my Houston TechFest gig
It has been a while since Houston TechFest , but I just noticed that Zain got some photos up .. You gotta love this classic one of the me, the Microsoft guy, preparing for my demos on my mac! Check out more pictures on Zain's blog post .. Read More...
Posted 20 January 08 02:00 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster Updated
A while back I blogged about the .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster... We made a few tweaks and updated it, including making it available in more formats. Download Links: Full XPS Split XPS PDF Tiled PDF Enjoy! Read More...
Posted 12 January 08 03:43 by BradA | 22 Comments   
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User Experience in the Enterprise: Lawson's flash ship manufacturing and distribution application
Well, we are not even out of January yet and there is at least a hint of one of my 2008 prediction coming true . Frog Design is helping Lawson get User Experience to Reach the Enterprise. Check out the details on the case study and read more about how Read More...
Posted 11 January 08 09:34 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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Video "Framework Engineering: Architecting, Designing, and Developing Reusable Libraries" posted
Krys got his very popular TechEd Europe session on framework engineering posted . Framework Engineering: Architecting, Designing, and Developing Reusable Libraries This session covers the main aspects of reusable library design: API design, architecture, Read More...
Posted 10 January 08 08:51 by BradA | 4 Comments   
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Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter video site live
A while back I blogged about the Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter event and some of you asked about how you could access to the materials... Well, i am happy to say we got ALL of them posted in a very nice format. Each session is available to streamed within Read More...
Posted 09 January 08 08:46 by BradA | 6 Comments   
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Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition In the works!
Krzysztof spilled the beans ... We just started working on the 2nd edition of the Framework Design Guidelines ... Krys gives some hints on the kinds of things we will be covering .NET Framework 3.0 and .NET Framework 3.5 including LINQ and other cool Read More...
Posted 03 January 08 07:42 by BradA | 21 Comments   
Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event in LA, Feb 27th
I will be heading down LA on Feb 27th for the combined launch event for VS2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. It should be a fun time! Ballmer will be kicking things off, then later in the day I will give a breakout about how to use .NET Framework Read More...
Posted 02 January 08 10:16 by BradA | 5 Comments   
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