I'm going to be giving 3 talks and one pre-conference workshop at DevConnections next week in Las Vegas on behalf of Interface Technical Training. It's always a great conference and I'm looking forward to it. The topicsI'll be covering are shown below:Migrating from Web Services to Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs)Minimize Code ...

Microsoft made some fairly significant changes to the way ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel control messages are sent to and from the server in the latest beta release. In earlier versions XML was used. For example, a portion of a response message is shown below that containsa delta> tag and others to track changes to the control (I removed quite a bit ...

I had a great time presenting fora fewhours to the North Dallas .NET User Group this past Thursday.I covered two topics: ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks This talk covered ASP.NET UI, AJAX, Caching and Deployment Tips and Tricks, and Visual Studio 2005 tips/tricks. Click here to download the slides+demos for this talk. You can learn more about the ...

I had a great time presenting fora fewhours to the North Dallas .NET User Group this past Thursday.I covered two topics: ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks This talk covered ASP.NET UI, AJAX, Caching and Deployment Tips and Tricks, and Visual Studio 2005 tips/tricks. Click here to download the slides+demos for this talk. You can learn more about the ...

I don't care what anyone says about the Spam Rules engine in Community Server. It may work partially, but it sure isn't great. I got nearly 200 spam messages yesterday on ChrisHammond.com, and I'd estimate 1500 over the past 7 days.That's 1500 freaking spam messages about Dale Earnhardt, used cell phones, Bahamas beach clubs and ...

DanielFeand team shipped a new design for Coding4Fun -- it ROCKS, definitley check it out Get more info from Dan's blog

I'm going to be presenting on Custom Providers in ASP.NET at the November 6th meeting of the Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET User Group. This is pretty much a repeat of my session at the 2006 Atlanta Code Camp, but I keep getting lots of requests for it. The primary goal is to introduce ASP.NET custom providers and discuss why you should care about ...

Scott did an awesome job last night at the North Dallas .NET User Group. He started with a great Tips & Tricks talk and finished with a talk on LINQ.The Tips & Tricks were great, lots of little cool features that are in .NET but most people don’t know about as well as some sweet new AJAX functionality and controls. He then went into ...

Posted at Ardent Dev by Derek Hatchard (Go directly to post): I'm pleased to announce that Mike Mullen and I have launched a new developer-oriented podcast / netcast. The first show just went up a few hours ago: Show notes for the nameless developer podcast Download the MP3 Until we come up with a catchy name, the shows are being posted at ...

I'll be in Las Vegas next week for ASP Connectionswith some other people from the AJAX team. If you're going too, stop by and say hi.We're going to talk about some new exciting features, in particular some great localization and globalization stuff.

I'll be in Las Vegas next week for ASP Connectionswith some other people from the AJAX team. If you're going too, stop by and say hi.We're going to talk about some new exciting features, in particular some great localization and globalization stuff. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!

David Ebbo wrote a very interesting article that explains in great details how they gave ASP.NET the ability to be driven by dynamic languages. The compilation system, on which David worked for a few years, is explained, as well as why it doesn't apply to dynamic languages. Then he goes on to explain how they were able to integrateIronPython ...

David Ebbo wrote a very interesting article that explains in great details how they gave ASP.NET the ability to be driven by dynamic languages. The compilation system, on which David worked for a few years, is explained, as well as why it doesn't apply to dynamic languages. Then he goes on to explain how they were able to integrateIronPython ...

I was discussing debugging of Javascript on one of the ASP.NET Ajax forums recently and thought I'd share how I go about it, as you'd be surprised how many people are unaware of this capability. Note: This only discusses getting the debugging process going, not other debugging techniques such as using tools like Fiddler and others... Scenario: A ...

Scott gave a whirlwind presentation to a standing room only crowd at the North Dallas Dot Net User Group tonight. A wide range of topics were covered from IDE tips and tricks to ASP.NET tips to MS AJAX to LINQ and DLINQ (I still like to call it DLINQ rather than LINQ to SQL). I'm still not sure how all this got packed into a little over 2 hours. ...

Quick intro to the couple of sessions I'll be presenting next week at TechEd, Barcelona, and call for last minute suggestions...

Eilon Lipton, the developer for UpdatePanel recently posted some great resources to the forums that are a must read for anyone interested in UpdatePanel (yes all of you :)) What's up with UpdatePanels and how come nothing works?This is a higher level piece that explains how UpdatePanel changed from being automatic (and broken) in the CTP to the ...

I'm happy to announce that Excentrics World Server Controls has hit version 2.0.3. This version focuses primarily on Microsoft AJAX Extensions, Beta 1 support enabling developers to utilize the Excentrics World Server Controls through a compatibility layer. The full change-list is as follows: Full compatibility with Microsoft AJAX Extensions, Beta ...

Don't forget, if you're in Dallas (or within a couple hundred miles) be sure not to miss Scott Guthrie's talk at the North Dallas .NET User Group!

If you're trying to migrate from previous Microsoft Atlas releases to the new ASP.NET AJAX Core Beta 1 you'll quickly find out that several things have changed. I was playing around with the AutoCompleteExtender this evening and noticed that it isn't in the "core" installation but has been moved into the CTP installation. ...