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Book Plug: Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5: I recently got a copy of Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5 . This promises to be a great book. With .NET Framework 3.5, Ajax is really interesting the mainstream and the Ajax Server Controls make it very easy Read More...
Posted 22 August 08 09:16 by BradA | 1 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, AJAX
New Web Developer Tips and Tricks Blog: We recently launched a very cool tips and tricks blog series just for web developers . The goal is to get a similar format to Sara Ford's successful tips and tricks series. We are of to a very goo start! Did You Know… Tip #1 – Read More...
Posted 08 August 08 07:47 by BradA | 2 Comments
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DropThings: Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal - new and improved: Omar AL Zabir (author of Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 ) updated his very cool ASP.NET AJAX Portal application with 3.5 features, Workflow Foundation and new C# 3.0 features. Play with it here: http://www.dropthings.com/ Read More...
Posted 21 July 08 09:07 by BradA | 7 Comments
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Loving the South African Developer Community: I just got back from South Africa and I am happy to report that the .NET Developer community is very strong there. User's Group Meetings in in Johannesburg and Cape Town User group meeting in Johannesburg - thanks for setting this Read More...
Posted 01 July 08 10:12 by BradA | 10 Comments
Filed under .NET Framework, ASP.NET, AJAX, WPF, Silverlight, Mix08
Updated Talk: Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008: For my Mix Essentials talk in South Africa I updated my Mix08 talk Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 to have a little more Africa feel... I used some photos from my safari at Mala Mala here this week. Read More...
Posted 30 June 08 10:30 by BradA | 6 Comments
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ASP.NET Dynamic Data: Customizing the UI: In my last post on Dynamic Data , I showed what Dynamic Data adds to the current ASP.NET data story. In this post I show how to customize the UI with Metadata, field templates, and page templates. I start off by showing off the Dynamic Data Read More...
Posted 27 June 08 09:55 by BradA | 3 Comments
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Data focused Silverlight demo: Yet still more time on traveling , I thought I'd do a little demo of a data oriented scenario with Silverlight. Here is what we are after: The data for the app is loaded from a Linq model and sent to the Silverlight client via a WCF services. As the user Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 09:41 by BradA | 11 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, Silverlight
ASP.NET DynamicData: An Introductory Demo: I had a bit more time on my travels , so I cooked up this brief introduction to Dynamic Data . I tried a different approach this time by showing what Dynamic Data adds to our existing data story. More information on Dynamic Data: http://asp.net/dynamicdata Read More...
Posted 20 June 08 01:35 by BradA | 11 Comments
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Silverlight talk at AjaxWorld: I am pretty exited to be going to AjaxWorld (Oct 20-22) in San Jose.... I will be at least giving a Silverlight talk and maybe something else fun in the Ajax, MVC, ASP.NET space. I love getting out in the broad industry events because I can hear such Read More...
Posted 11 June 08 10:04 by BradA | 2 Comments
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.NET Rocks! on ASP.NET Dynamic Data: The great folks over in DNR land just posted Scott Hunter's interview on ASP.NET Dynamic Data! In it he talks a lot about not only what is available with VS08 SP1, but also what is coming next. Exciting times! Show #349 | 6/10/2008 (63 Read More...
Posted 10 June 08 09:51 by BradA | 1 Comments
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Silverlight Roles, Profile and Authentication Example Updated for Silverlight Beta2 Now with Visual State Manager (VSM) goodness!: I am very excited about Silverlight Beta2 shipping recently ... I took a few minutes to update my recent sample " Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight " post to Beta2. While I was at it, I Read More...
Posted 08 June 08 08:23 by BradA | 17 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight
Enhanced Mix08 Videos Posted: We recently finished the post product work required to get enhanced videos posted. The videos not only include slides\demos, but also include a separate video stream of the speaker so you get a deeper experience. Mix08 Session Read More...
Posted 16 May 08 09:25 by BradA | 5 Comments
Filed under .NET Framework, ASP.NET, AJAX, Mix08
Where should the ASP.NET team release stuff?: One of the things I love about working on the ASP.NET team is that the team is very focused on getting customer feedback. One of the ways we do this we need to ship bits early and often. While I think this is great, it does present some challenges Read More...
Posted 26 April 08 08:39 by BradA | 2 Comments
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Updated ASP.NET Dynamic Data Bits Posted: We just posted some updated bits and samples for ASP.NET Dynamic Data... I encourage you to go pick them up and let us know what you think... Some cool new stuff in this release: Visual Studio Integration is much cleaner Now supports "pretty" Read More...
Posted 23 April 08 10:17 by BradA | 12 Comments
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End-to-End Data Centric Application with Silverlight 2: I have been having some fun with an end to end Silverlight 2 demo recently and I thought I'd share it here. My goal with the demo is to show how easy it is to create an end to end Silverlight application. In particular, my goal is to show Explain the Read More...
Posted 17 April 08 10:16 by BradA | 27 Comments
Filed under .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Silverlight

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