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• Dec 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight/

  Posted: yesterday

  I'm flying out later today on a pretty intense business trip (22,000 miles, 5 countries, 3 continents, 1 week, no sleep... :-), so my blog activity over the next week and a half will be pretty light.  To keep you busy till I return, here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out m

• New ASP.NET Charting Control: <asp:chart runat="server"/>

  Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 06:38

  Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control - <asp:chart /> - that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios: Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls Download the VS 2008 Tool Support for the Chart Controls Download the Micros

• jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008

  Posted: 21 Nov 2008 at 10:07

  Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery.  Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free).  This is now available to download

• Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

  Posted: 17 Nov 2008 at 07:01

  We shipped Silverlight 2 last month.  Over the last 4 weeks, the final release of Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 100 million consumer machines.  It has also recently been published to corporate administrators via the Microsoft SMS and Microsoft Update programs to enable

• Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2

  Posted: 14 Nov 2008 at 10:15

  Silverlight 2 provides a rich platform for building cross-browser/cross-platform RIA applications.  One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects.  Developers can use Visual Studio to open and edit Silverlig

• Nov 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF

  Posted: 06 Nov 2008 at 08:34

  Last week was our big PDC conference, and I've been busy catching up back at work this week.  I'm hoping to publish a bunch of new posts soon (including some on the PDC announcements we made).  Until then, here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks

• October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight

  Posted: 23 Oct 2008 at 04:46

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.ASP.NETBuilding a Great ASP.NET AJAX Application from Scratch: Brad Abrams has a nice end to end applicat

• ASP.NET MVC Beta Released

  Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 22:30

  Today we released a beta of the new ASP.NET MVC framework.  Click here to download it.  You can also visit www.asp.net/mvc to explore tutorials, quickstarts, and videos to learn more. The ASP.NET MVC Beta works with both .NET 3.5 and .NET 3.5 SP1, and supports both VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2

• Silverlight 2 Released

  Posted: 14 Oct 2008 at 11:07 by ScottGu

  Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2.  You can download Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it, here. Cross Platform / Cross Browser .NET Development Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform browser plugin that enables rich media

• October 10th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, IIS

  Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 09:53 by ScottGu

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Best Practices for Creating ASP.NET websites with IIS 6.0: Omar Al Zabir, author of the ex

• October 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data

  Posted: 02 Oct 2008 at 09:23 by ScottGu

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Amazon EC2 Support for Windows and ASP.NET: Big news announced this week: Amazon will be o

• jQuery and Microsoft

  Posted: 28 Sep 2008 at 19:32 by ScottGu

  jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) find and manipulate HTML elements with

• Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available

  Posted: 26 Sep 2008 at 05:54 by ScottGu

  This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2. There are still a small handful of bugs fixes that we plan to make before we finally ship.  We are releasing today's build, though, so that developers can start to update their existing Silverlight Beta2 application

• ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios

  Posted: 02 Sep 2008 at 13:22 by ScottGu

  This past Thursday the ASP.NET MVC feature team published a new "Preview 5" release of the ASP.NET MVC framework.  You can download the new release here.  This "Preview 5" release works with both .NET 3.5 and the recently released .NET 3.5 SP1.  It can also now be

• Quick Update

  Posted: 02 Sep 2008 at 13:21 by ScottGu

  I've received a number of (very nice) emails recently asking if I was ok - since my blog has been silent the last few weeks (and much of the summer).  Just to address people's concerns - I'm alive and well. :-)  I've just been on vacation the last 6 weeks, and have unfortunately not had f

• ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1)

  Posted: 14 Jul 2008 at 10:18 by ScottGu

  The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week.  The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC.  Starting with Preview 4 this w

• Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released

  Posted: 07 Jun 2008 at 03:50 by ScottGu

  Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today.  You can download both Silverlight 2 Beta2 and the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools support to target it here. Beta2 adds a lot of new features (more details below), but is still a 4.6 MB download that takes less than 10 seconds to install on a m

• ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

  Posted: 02 Jun 2008 at 02:50 by ScottGu

  Last week I blogged about the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release.  One important thing I forgot to mention about this release is that you can now use it with both Visual Studio 2008 as well as the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition.  The SP1 release of Visual Web Developer 2008 Exp

• ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release

  Posted: 27 May 2008 at 21:26 by ScottGu

  This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework.  I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release.  Today's build includes some additional features not in last month's drop, some ni

• May 20th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF

  Posted: 21 May 2008 at 06:02 by ScottGu

  Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately.  Below is a new post in my link-listing series to help kick things up a little.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to