PDC Bloggers Scott Guthrie

ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF, Silverlight Extensive Reference List

Scott Guthrie — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:37:05 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past."

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jQuery Benefits .NET Developers

Scott Guthrie — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:40:03 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size)....A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) find and manipulate HTML elements with minimum lines of code....can really benefit ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX developers."

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Silverlight 2 RC - Please Start Testing Your Beta 2 Apps

Scott Guthrie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:57:01 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "There are still a small handful of bugs fixes that we plan to make before we finally ship. We are releasing today's build, though, so that developers can start to update their existing Silverlight Beta2 applications...If you have existing Beta2 applications, please start getting them ready for the final release..."

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ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios

Scott Guthrie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:04:38 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "...a quick look at how form post scenarios work with ASP.NET MVC Preview 5. Hopefully after reading it you have a better sense of how you handle form and input entry scenarios using a MVC model. You can download a completed C# version of the application I built..."

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Walk Through on Understanding ASP.NET MVC Filter Interceptors

Scott Guthrie — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:13:29 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "Action Filter Attributes are a useful extensibility capability in ASP.NET MVC that was first added with the "Preview 2" release. These enable you to inject code interceptors into the request of a MVC controller that can execute before and after a Controller or its Action methods execute...an example of a super simple "ScottGuLog" filter..."

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Silverlight 2 Beta2 Resources

Scott Guthrie — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:41:30 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "You can download both Silverlight 2 Beta2 and the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools support to target it here...We'll be posting articles, tutorials, videos and more..."

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ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release

Scott Guthrie — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:12:58 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "...Today's Preview 3 release of ASP.NET MVC includes a bunch of improvements and refinements. We are starting to feel good about the URL routing and Controller/Action programming model of MVC, and feel that those areas are starting to bake really well..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2008 : Tracks : Developer Tools and Languages

New tools in VS 2008 - NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta

Scott Guthrie — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:20:26 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "The SP1 beta released today is still in beta form - so you should be careful about installing it on critical machines. There are a few important SP1 Beta installation notes to be aware of...We plan to ship the final release of both .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 this summer as free updates. You can download and use the beta now..."

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ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh Preview

Scott Guthrie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:56:28 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "...we published a refresh of the ASP.NET MVC source code on the site. This source refresh is not an official new ASP.NET MVC preview release - instead it is an interim drop..."

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ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Available

Scott Guthrie — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:48:32 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "Today we released an updated ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview....This new dynamic data preview now works with the standard built-in ASP.NET data controls...The dynamic data support enables these controls to automatically handle foreign-key relationships. For example, on a gridview you'll now get automatic friendly name display of foreign key column values and automatic drop-down list selection support of these values when in edit mode:"

Tip Silverlight and WPF User Controls

Scott Guthrie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:09:48 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "One of the fundamental design goals of Silverlight and WPF is to enable developers to be able to easily encapsulate UI functionality into re-usable controls. You can implement new custom controls by deriving a class from one of the existing Control classes (either a Control base class or from a control like TextBox, Button, etc). Alternatively you can create re-usable User Controls - which make it easy to use a XAML markup file to compose a control's UI (and which makes them super easy to build)."

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Unit Testing with Silverlight

Scott Guthrie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:07:55 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "If you've ever struggled to try and come up with a strategy for doing automated unit testing or TDD with AJAX applications, I think you'll find Silverlight provides some much nicer test options. Using Visual Studio you can also separate your tests into a separate project in your solution, and you do not need to embed the tests within your Silverlight application in order for them to run...."

ASP.NET MVC on CodePlex

Scott Guthrie — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:27:19 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "...You can download a .zip file containing the source code for the ASP.NET MVC Framework for the release page here. When you extract the .zip file you can drill into its "MVC" sub-folder to find a VS 2008 solution file for the project:"

IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling Module

Scott Guthrie — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:38:36 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "....some of the options you can use to reduce the cost of delivering video, and discusses a new free download...released a few days ago and which enables you to easily save money when serving video from an IIS web server using any video technology (including Silverlight, Windows Media Player and even Flash)."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2007 : Tracks : Web Development and Infrastructure
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2008 : Tracks : Web and User Experience

Using Expression Blend with Silverlight 2

Scott Guthrie — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:46:31 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "....In this first set of Silverlight tutorials I didn't use a visual design tool to build the UI, and instead focused on showing the underlying XAML UI markup (which I think helps to explain the core programming concepts better). Now that we've finished covering the basics - let's explore some of the tools we can use to be even more productive."

First Look at Silverlight 2

Scott Guthrie — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:02:44 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "Silverlight 2 includes a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .NET Framework, and enables a rich .NET development platform that runs in the browser. Developers can write Silverlight applications using any .NET language (including VB, C#, JavaScript, IronPython and IronRuby). We will ship Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio tool support...."

.NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap

Scott Guthrie — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:50:13 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "....We have put a lot of effort into addressing some of the biggest areas of customer feedback, while also trying to really push the envelope on the capabilities developers have when building Windows applications. All of these improvements build on top of VS 2008 and .NET 3.5, and will make .NET client development even better going forward. Below is a roadmap of some of the upcoming releases we have planned for the months ahead:"

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ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update

Scott Guthrie — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:43:57 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "There are a bunch of other changes that will show up with the next ASP.NET MVC Preview (including a number of helper properties/methods/objects). Hopefully the.... list provides some insight into a few of the bigger improvements that will appear shortly...."

VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available

Scott Guthrie — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:11:57 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "One of the things we are trying to do with VS 2008 is to more frequently release public patches that roll-up bug-fixes of commonly reported problems. Today we are shipping a hot-fix roll-up that addresses several issues that we've seen reported with VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 web scenarios."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2007 : Tracks : Developer Tools and Technologies
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VS 2008 Web Deployment Project Support

Scott Guthrie — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:16:18 GMT

Scott Guthrie writes "....Web Deployment projects can be used with either the "ASP.NET Web Site" or "ASP.NET Web Application Project" options built-into VS 2008, and provide a few additional build, packaging and deployment options for you to use....version fixes bugs and adds some small features that people requested in the December CTP version we released last month."

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