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I get a few emails a day of folks asking what Syntax Highlighter I use in my blog for my code samples. Specifically, the newer code samples, as some of the old ones sucked as I was experimenting, trying to find the best one to settle on. The tool I use is actually called SyntaxHighlighter and it's from Alex Gorbatchev. The trick is that the ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 6:30 PM: CMAP December Meeting - Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie will present on Developing with ASP.NET AJAX and JQuery: It’s great to have options, and ASP.NET developers now have two great officially ...

First, let me remind you that in my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-seventh in a infinite number of posts of "The Weekly Source Code." I'm working on a side-project with Rob Conery, Dave Ward and others and I want to be able to do a search immediately as the user ...

Some of you maybe remember that I had added some security related features in Ajax.NET Professional. It is possible to put an AJAX token or to simple encrypt the data that gets over the lines. With Silverlight we get the System.Security.Cryptography namespace on the client – before it was not very easy to encrypt a string without any plug-in ...

I have downloaded the new emulator images and I’m really impressed that the IE6 render engine really fits in such a small device. I have created some screenshots below. All Web sites look very similar to the desktop version of Internet Explorer. Most AJAX enabled pages are working, on some Web sites I got JavaScript errors, well, they are not ...

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 ...

I mentioned recently that we announced that we will be shipping the jQuery JavaScript library moving forward in Visual Studio and related products. Well the jQuery folks haven’t wasted any time making development of jQuery-enabled aps in Visual Studio 2008 even easier. Yesterday, they made available for download a JavaScript library that enhances ...

In today’s MSDN Roadshow in Roanoke, VA, I talked about a couple of the enhancements that have been added to ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5 SP1, AJAX History, and Script Combining. Given time constraints, I did not have time to demo this functionality, but if you want to learn more about these features, there are a couple of good “How-to” videos on the ...

Microsoft just announced that jQuery will be supported in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and shipped with ASP.NET MVC.  Scott Guthrie mentions that an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 will be made available in a “few weeks” to provide intellisense for jQuery and that ASP.NET MVC will use it for Ajax server-side helper methods.  The ...

I've done a series of four podcasts dedicated to JavaScript over the last month. Why? Because of this rockin' sweet announcement: Microsoft is going to make jQuery part of the official dev platform. JQuery will come with Visual Studio in the long term, and in the short term it'll ship with ASP.NET MVC. We'll also ship a version includes ...