Sol 3

It looks like many of you have already noticed that there's an official Visual Studio autocomplete file for jQuery posted up at the jQuery site. It's significant that it's hosted by the jQuery team in that it's a contribution by the Visual Studio team but it's not up at CodePlex, because it really belongs to jQuery so there's where you'll find ...

Here's the results, as promised, of the .NET Survey I took last week. Also, here's the disclaimer. I did this on a whim, it's not scientific, so the margin of error is +/-101%. That said, the results feel intuitively right to me, personally. It was a single question with 14 checkboxes. You were asked to ''check al the .NET Framework features ...

My one-hundred-and-thirty-second podcast is up. Well, actually a few weeks ago, but I totally forgot to update my website with the details. You'd think somewhere around 100 shows I'd had automated this somehow. Hm. If I only I know a programmer and the data was available in some kind of universal structure syndication format…;) What is ...

ASP.NET MVC is now officially in Beta. Go get it! ScottGu has all the juicy details in his usually Epic style. In a nutshell, this is called Beta (and not Preview 1138) because the quality and the amount of testing gone into it was higher than the Previews and source drops you may have gotten off of CodePlex. It's API surface is pretty stable now. ...

Bam. Silverlight 2 is out. There's the expected stuff, like the final SDK, Expression, and Silverlight tools: Microsoft Silverlight 2 SDK Expression Blend 2 SP1 Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Deep Zoom Composer And from Tim's blog: Silverlight 2 Developer Runtime (Windows) Silverlight 2 Developer Runtime (Mac) ...

Hey folks, as I've said before, one of the things I like to do is take your comments, questions and feedback directly to the right folks inside Microsoft. They have all sorts of scientific methods, analysts, and smarties that give them information, usage details, etc. Sometimes, however, I like to throw the product planners the occasional ...

The PDC 2008 schedule is locked down. Looks like my main talk is on the first day, 10/27 at 5:15pm-6:30pm. Come to the talk and we'll all go out for tacos afterwards, maybe a party. :) The scheduling tool is a little wonky, but if you want to add my talk to your sessions, you can go to https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/sessions.aspx, sign ...

I wanted to write this post because there seems to be a lot of confusion about how ASP.NET WebForms, MVC and Dynamic Data all fit together. Folks may have WebForms applications and want to start looking at ASP.NET MVC but aren't sure if they need to start from scratch or not. Folks might look at Dynamic Data but mistakenly assume it's just for ...

There's a treasure trove of interesting stuff over at http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet. It's a bunch of potential future stuff that the ASP.NET team is working on. That's where you can get builds of ASP.NET MVC, Dynamic Data Futures, and new AJAX stuff. Two days ago a new CodePlex release snuck up on the site. It's a potential new feature, so it ...

Folks were hassling me in the comments for not posting the picosecond that .NET 3.5 SP1 came out (or, as I like to call it, .NET 3.6 - although the bosses really don't like that). First, the obvious stuff. Should I fear this release? I wouldn't. The SP1 Framework is full of goodness. The VS Installer is slow (it was for me) but I just shut ...