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A while back, Garbin, Rama and myself did an interview with the .NET Rocks guys. We were given an opportunity to talk about ASP.NET AJAX and our upcoming book. Today, the recording has been released on the site which you can find here. Both Carl and Richard were fun and easy to talk to. Enjoy.

There have been a lot of great sessions here at MIX07. To compliment those sessions, there has been some great blog coverage as well. A great post is this one from from Scott Hanselman, that puts things into context quite nicely.

Often times when an ASP.NET developer is first learning about the page lifecycle, he puts together a simple application that displays the raised events on the page. This widespread technique helps him understand the order in which the events occur, the arguments that are passed along, and ultimately what can and cannot be accomplished during each event.

First, thank you to everyone who attended the webcast last week on ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts. During the webcast there were some great questions and I had a fun time doing it. Below are the related links:

This Friday, March 9th at 1pm Pacific time, I'll be presenting an MSDN webcast on Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0. In addition to a general introduction on what Web Parts are and how developers can effectively use them to build portals, I'm hoping to throw in a little ASP.NET AJAX stuff towards the end.

Over the past few months I've had the pleasure of working closely with Alessandro 'Garbin' Gallo and Rama Krishna Vavilala on an Ajax book called ASP.NET AJAX In Action. Today, portions of the book become available through Mannings early access program, also known as MEAP. Through MEAP, you can receive early and updated versions of chapters as they become written, polished and eventually released. It also means that you can provide us with your input and feedback, which can influence changes we make to the chapters. We're very excited to share all our hard work and look forward to your feedback.