Joel Varty

I love the jTemplates plugin for jQuery.  It works great and I’ve had very little trouble working with it when I put my templates in separate files.  This ensures that the browser does re-interpret the html for the template and re-arrange the elements.  This happens mostly with tables in IE and Webkit browsers where you want to repeat the rows of the table.  You’ll see what I mean in a moment.

In the past, I have widely used, and been a fan of, TextWriterTraceListener and EventLogTraceListener configured via the web.config in order to output diagnostics information from a web app or site.  These things have been there since .Net 1, so our main library of code has hooks into System.Diagnostics.  We even implemented a messaging aspect to this so that certain critical errors would trigger an SMTP message to us.  This has been invaluable in determining what is happening with a site as content changes, or something happens that we need to take action on before a complaint comes in.  (Who am I kidding – this is how we find out about bugs that got missed for whatever reason).

I get this question all of the time, and there is a great support article from Microsoft on how to do this.

According to this article from CNET News from October 19th, Visual Studio 2010 will launch in March, 2010.  This sort of follows the current timeline, where the Beta 2 has just been released, and we can probably expect another beta and/or a Release Candidate drop to evaluate before the final release.

Today on his blog, Scott Guthrie announced on the availability of beta 2 for VS 2010 and .Net 4.0.

We do our own routing with Agility CMS, however we are looking at switching to the more standardized routing built into Asp.Net (as of 3.5sp1).

Check it out - http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/11/16/493401.aspx

Dave Reed has a great example of how to do few different things in Preview 5 of Microsoft Ajax 4.0.