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ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap talk available online
Scott Hunter’s talk on the ASP.NET 4.0 roadmap (in which I’m doing a 10 minute demo) is available from Channel9:
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jQuery IntelliSense documentation file available
IntelliSense documentation files for jQuery just got published on jquery.com. This enables great IntelliSense at design-time for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008. It goes without saying that this file should only be used at design-time and never at runtime. For the moment, in order to ensure that, you can include the file from an “if (false)” server code block. We’re also working on a much better solution.
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We need Rock Band / Guitar Hero song compatibility
In this post, the Penny Arcade guys make the point that beyond instrument capability, what we really need is song compatibility between the two. Beyond the licensing nightmare that would probably represent for both games publishers, this resonated really well for me. Here’s why and why it makes perfectly good business sense below the apparent “yeah, right, you wish” appearances.
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Going to California
I’m flying to San Jose tonight for tomorrow’s OpenAjax Alliance face to face meeting, which Microsoft is hosting. On Friday, we are also hosting a new event that aims at establishing a dialogue between JavaScript library developers and Microsoft. We’ll have talks from the IE, Visual Studio and ASP.NET teams, as well as talks from members of the community. This should be very interesting.
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Using the power of binding to animate changes
In a recent post, I showed how the binding component can be instantiated independently of the {binding} markup extension. But there’s a whole lot more it can do.
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Hack: using live bindings outside templates
A comment on this post is asking whether it is possible to create bindings outside of a template. The point of doing that is that you don’t necessarily want to render a template just to set-up a few bindings.
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Celebrating Silverlight 2 while following the World Chess Championship
To celebrate the recent launch of Silverlight 2, let me point you to a cool app from Martin Bennedik that is basically a Chess game (re)player. It’s really cool to visualize a whole game like this:
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Alt.NET podcast on jQuery
We had an interesting conversation with the good people from the Alt.NET podcast on jQuery and what it means for .NET developers. Check it out:
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A possible cause of “‘Sys’ is undefined” explained
Clay Compton explains on the ASP.NET QA blog how bad web.config overrides can lead to the Microsoft Ajax Library not loading and the “‘Sys’ is undefined” error being thrown when the page loads. It’s a great read and hopefully will unblock some of you.
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Client templates in MSDN Magazine
My first full-length article in MSDN Magazine is out with the October issue and it’s about Microsoft AJAX client templates. Check it out…