December 2006 - Posts
It has been another year in my life, they just get faster as I grow older. Personally this has been a year full of reflection over my life and how I got here. It has caused me to grow in some very important areas I think. Professionally it has been probably
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I have held off announcing this on the Blog until it got a little further along, but I am priveledged to be the author of an upcoming book, ASP.NET 2.0: Your visual blueprint for developing Web applications . This book is targeted at developers who are
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Yet another breaking release from the mothership, Visual Studio 2005 SP 1 . I installed it today, and well so far everything works! Honestly I have had no time to read the updates and changes, but Scott Guthrie has an entry on VS 05 SP1 . I just can not
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ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 RC is now Available. The updates on the ASP.NET Ajax framework seem to be happening faster than a complete page refresh these days! I barely got to use the last release and yet another one is available. I should have some time to work
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I was pretty disappointed there was no PDC this year, but I guess we needed some time to actually write some code for ASP.NET 2.0! Anyway, it looks like Microsoft has finally announced the '07 PDC , Sept 30-Oct 5 in Los Angeles. I have yet to go to
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In my continuing theme on reducing and eliminating the ViewState from ASP.NET pages I want to begin covering some great new features to help ViewState in ASP.NET 2.0. Last month I talked about persisting the ViewState to memory using the LosFormatter
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Next week will be big for those of us around the Raleigh-Durham area because there will be two events for us. Wednesday is a big day for us because Doug Tenure will be doing . NET University , featuring ASP.NET 3.0 technologies at the local Microsoft
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Earlier I wrote about a method of moving the ViewState to the bottom of the page . The advantages of this are two fold, one is it helps with search engine optimization by getting non-essential content out of the top of the page. Second since it is at
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I thought today sure is quite, well we got a little goodie this afternoon. Microsoft released WPF/E, which is Expression CTP to the public. You can download Expression here . I have not had a chance to 'play' with any of the Avalon, WPF or XAML
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Cross-Site Scripting attacks are still a frequent occurance across the web. Fortunately the ASP.NET framework has a built-in protection against this type of attack. But as good as that is, it is still actually limited to a certain degree. So it is a good
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