Tales from the Evil Empire

You may have read that from John Resig or Scott Guthrie. I’m very excited to announce that Microsoft has decided to ship, adopt and support using jQuery on top of ASP.NET. This may come as a surprise to some of you but I hope you’ll agree with me that it makes total sense. jQuery is a fantastic JavaScript library that focuses on DOM querying and manipulation, whereas the Microsoft Ajax Library focuses on building reusable components and interacting with ASP.NET web services.

I'm sharing a spot with Scott Cate (of CloudDB fame, and by the way CloudDB is a fantastic product built entirely using ASP.NET AJAX) this week on Hanselminutes.

I've been thinking about this famous Stephen Colbert quote quite often lately. Having been raised in a country where there are no political ads on TV, I find it quite shocking to see how candidates here in the U.S. sling mud at each other through disgusting little ads that insult the viewer's intelligence with really outrageous claims.

In part 1, we saw how to use DataView to render JavaScript data using a simple template. In this post, we'll see how rich bindings unlock richer scenarios where user changes automatically propagate back to the data and to all UI that is bound to it.

I installed IE8 Beta 2 and tried CTRL+F this morning and here's what I got:

Stephen Walther has a pretty cool post on using the new file-only version of the Ajax Control Toolkit from an MVC application:

I just released the latest version of the Ajax Control Toolkit for .NET 3.5 SP1.

I really, really like a good puzzle game. So when I saw Braid announced and read the raving critics, I was quite sure this was a game for me. I really wanted to like it. Then I downloaded the trial version... and pretty much hated it. So here are some critic's citations and how they resonated for me: