Such a fun time was had at Mix 11 this last week in Vegas. I only saw a few talks as I was busy presenting, but now as I sit at home on my first day back, I say to myself, Self, how can I get all the Mix videos at once? First, you can watch all the vid…
Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit . It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the morning when you get up. It's extremely well put together and I say Kudos to the folks that did it. They are better people than I. I like to explore it while watching TV myself and found myself looking through tonight. I checked my blog and while I thought I'd shared this with you before, Dear Reader, I hadn't. My bad, because it's pure gold . With C# and VB, natch. Here's an outline of what's inside. I've heard of folks setting up lunch-time study groups and going through…(read more)
A colleague of mine recently called me out on the fact that I haven’t blogged in … oh about a year and a half. Well it’s 2010 now and resolution season is in full swing so here’s my attempt at getting back on the ball (no promises th…
A colleague of mine recently called me out on the fact that I haven’t blogged in … oh about a year and a half. Well it’s 2010 now and resolution season is in full swing so here’s my attempt at getting back on the ball (no promises th…
First, let me start this post by thanking Tatham Oddie . He helped my buddy John Batdorf and I debug our issue remotely from Australia. He's patient, kind, opinionated and Tatham's got a darn fine blog that you should subscribe to now . I also found great inspiration from Stephen Naughton's excellent blog . He's continually pushing ASP.NET and Dynamic Data to do fun things and I was able to use 95% of his auto-complete code as I found it. And finally Marcin Dobosz's blog is where I started, taking his Dynamic Data sample Filter Repeaters and ending up at the Dynamic Data Futures samples . Technical Disclaimer: This is me just messing about with the .NET 3.5 SP1 Dynamic Data samples as this non-profit wanted .NET 3.5. The…(read more)
Who loves you? Not only is Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 now available for everyone to download (not just subscribers) but I've got 11 short video interviews with the ASP.NET 4 team up on Channel 9. I was up in Redmond just last week and made sure to stop by the offices of as many ASP.NET developers and program managers as I could. I chatted with a few faces you may recognize and a few you may not. All of them are working hard to make ASP.NET 4 cool. I'm still working on my video techniques, and I used two different HD cameras to film these videos. Your feedback (negative AND positive) is always appreciated. This series of videos is called Hanselminutes on 9 and you can get to all of these (and many more) using the Channel 9 Tag " hanselminuteson9…(read more)
Lots of big stuff happening this week. Today Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available to MSDN Subscribers and it'll be available for everyone on Wednesday. I'm running Beta 2 on all my machines now and really digging it. It's much faster than Beta 1 and I'm doing all my work in it now. It's come a long way and I'm really impressed at the polish. .NET 4 This is a big deal. This isn't ".NET 3.6" – there are a lot of improvements of .NET 4, and it's not just "pile on a bunch of features so you get overwhelmed." I've been working with and talking to many of the teams involved and even though it's a cheesy thing to say, this is a really customer-focused release. Shouldn't every release…(read more)
My one-hundred-and-eighty-forth podcast is up . Scott's in Seattle this week and catches Microsoft Program Manager (and one of 1000 Scott's) Scott Hunter who shares insights in the history and future of ASP.NET 4. What's coming in VS2010? Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts , a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show. Telerik is our sponsor for this show. Check out their UI Suite of controls for ASP.NET . It's very hardcore stuff. One of the things I appreciate about Telerik is their commitment to completeness. For example, they have a page about their Right-to-Left support while some vendors have zero support, or don't…(read more)
6/25 Update: This sample has become part of the Dynamic Data Futures project on codeplex. You can still use this code but you should check out the Futures project as it contains a lot more. The key conecpts are the same, though some names or APIs might…
6/25 Update: This sample has become part of the Dynamic Data Futures project on codeplex. You can still use this code but you should check out the Futures project as it contains a lot more. The key conecpts are the same, though some names or APIs might…