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Wally does another podcast interview with Chris Riccio of the ASP.NET AJAX team. This one mostly deals with testing.

I did an engagement recently where a client wanted to create a windows forms application from an existing legacy application. The existing legacy app was important but relatively simple in terms of architecture.

This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of interviews with some of the ASP.NET AJAX team members. Wally, as usual, does a fine job of grilling Matt.

Over at Developer.com, ASP.NET AJAX, AJAX Control Toolkit and ASP.NET AJAX Extensions have taken out the .Net Tool/Add-in developer product of the year award! Great Stuff and congratulations!. Check it out here http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/10920_3653956_2 along with all the other awards.

Here is a videocast I did that shows you how to create a custom Extender control using the Microsoft ASP.Net AJAX Extensions. This will be the first of a series of video casts on custom ASP.Net AJAX controls. The next one will deal with extender controls using the AJAX Control toolkit and contrast the different approaches. The next one may deal with ScriptControls and so on.

Wally and myself did a podcast that kind of sums up the year of 2006 with respect to what technology we have seen and how the podcast has been doing. Tune in and give us your feedback.

Found an article on the inner workings of the UpdatePanel by Damian Mehers today. The article can be found here (http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/atlas/The_UpdatePanel_opened_what_happens_behind_the_scenes.aspx). Its a pretty good article and Damien does a good jon of showing what goes when the UpdatePanel performs its magic.

Wally is starting off the new year by continuing his Videocast frenzy. Here is one on a few controls in the AJAX Control toolkit, one of which being my very own PasswordStrength extender. I’ll be producing one myself soon on the AJAX Control toolkit so lookout for that. Also, I would be interested to hear feedback on the Videocast vs Podcast medium. Which do you prefer?