ASP.NET already has many great extensibility points: you can add new HttpModules to interact with an incoming or outgoing request, you can add your own HttpHandler to take over the processing of individual requests, you can extend the configuration system, and finally you can derive … Continue reading “ASP.NET “Whidbey” Provider Model”
We kicked off the ASP.NET Roadshow last night in Dallas, Texas with a packed house (almost 300 people). We started with a brief introduction to ASP.NET, did some cool Tips/Tricks demos — like building a ‘Page Loading…’ example and a dynamic image generator. After a … Continue reading “ASP.NET Roadshow kick-off”
Today we had the opportunity to present at Borland’s Developer Conference in San Jose, CA. David Treadwell gave the keynote for today’s general session, and I provided an ASP.NET “Whidbey” demo. In the keynote we build a demo from scratch that used the new SqlDataSource … Continue reading “Borland Developer’s Conference”
Here’s a common scenario: You’ve built a dynamic web site with ASP.NET; for example: the Commerce Stater Kit. You have a products page that displays detail (from the database) about a requested product specified by a query string parameter, e.g. /products/default.aspx?ProdID=5. A page such as this is … Continue reading “ASP.NET “Whidbey” Database Cache Invalidation”
Ok, pushing www.asp.net/whidbey/ now… You can now discuss ASP.NET “Whidbey” in the new “Whidbey” forums here: http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowForumGroup.aspx?tabindex=1&ForumGroupID=26
The www.asp.net/whidbey/ site is just about complete. We’re still on target to go live around noon Pacific Standard time.
If you’re not at PDC then you’re also not aware of the wonderful fact that half of California is on fire — well maybe not half — but looking outside it looks like a scense from Apocalypse Now with the orange haze from the grass … Continue reading “PDC: Monday 9:00 AM”
The long awaited PDC 2003 is almost here – we’re really excited because we can finally talk publicly about some of the awesome new stuff coming in ASP.NET 2.0. If you’re coming to PDC, please stop by and say hi. I’m giving 3 talks: ASP.NET: … Continue reading “Hear the buzz? That’s PDC…”
I love what you can do with regular expressions, but I hate writing them. Steve Smith put together a great site that I use all the time: http://www.regexlib.com/
A friend of mine on the ASP.NET team forwarded me this: http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html It’s an interesting read – albeit incredibly dense – but interesting nonetheless. The term ‘social software’ is an interesting idea. I guess you could call the www.asp.net/forums/ a ‘social software package’. Speaking of … Continue reading “Social Software”
