Craig Shoemaker

Thanks to everyone who came to my ASP.NET AJAX 4 talk at the Orange Country .NET User Group. Special thanks to Reza Madani for organizing the talk and running such a great group!

In this episode of the Polymorphic Podcast Eric Hexter (@ehexter) and Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) join Craig Shoemaker (@craigshoemaker) to discuss Portable Areas. The Portable Areas contribution to MVC Contrib are an option for building single component or multi-page components for ASP.NET websites.

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Stephen Walther (@swalther) and Craig Shoemaker discuss the latest announcements surrounding the ASP.NET Ajax Library during PDC09.

While the attendees of PDC09 likely expected to hear a plethora of announcements regarding Silverlight 3 all hopes were dashed when Scott Guthrie quickly glossed over advancements in Silverlight 3 to make time to talk about... the Silverlight 4 beta!

The ASP.NET AJAX Script Loader control will make your life easier. Gone are the days where you have to include a multi-line block of script includes on every web page. Gone are the days of double checking to make sure your script files are included in the right order. Now with the appropriate use of the Script Loader’s require function gone are the days of having to load scripts on your page whether you need them or not.

Thanks to everyone who came to my ASP.NET AJAX 4 talk at the Inland Empire .NET User Group. Special thanks to James Johnson (@latringo) for organizing such a great group!

On this episode of Pixel8 Scott Hunter (@coolsch) joins us to discuss his team’s focus on simplicity and performance in ASP.NET. Scott was kind enough to surprise me with some talking points about what his team is thinking about for releases coming after ASP.NET 4! Please note, what’s discussed herein are un-implemented features of ASP.NET so your feedback is not only welcome, but encouraged!