AJAX has been very popular over the past few years, but I've seen it primarily used by developers to reduce page refreshes and to do background data-loading.  Both of these uses are great uses of the technology, but one of the features that I like the best is the ability to do Drag-and-Drop functions.  Users have gotten accustom to this ...

If you are an ASP.NET developer and have either Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 and want to learn how to build web applications using AJAX, then this is the site for you.  The Microsoft ASP.NET team has made available about 30 videos (ranging from 3 minutes to 30 minutes) that show to use most if not all of the ASP.NET AJAX ...

Visual Studio 2008 (and the .NET Framework 3.5) is set to release to manufacturing in a few weeks (November timeframe).  I've been working with it for about 6 months myself, and once you get pass the BETA ''issues'' it is a nice upgrade over Visual Studio 2005 in a variety of areas. I specifically like these news features: Multi-targeted ...

This question came up at the Public Sector Developer Conference in Anchorage, AK.  I'm trying to answer all customer questions like this via my blog so everyone has the benefit of the answer.  There are a number of ways to do it, but my favorite (because it so darn easy) is to use an ASP.NET AJAX control extender Dan Wahlin built.  ...

Verio is offering a sweet little free hosting deal to developers and designers to promote Microsoft-based hosting for products and technologies like Expression, Visual Studio, and Silverlight.  The Plan includes: .NET Framework 3.0 (I am told 3.5 will be made available eventually) SQL Server Express ASP.NET 2.0 (Including ASP.NET AJAX 1.0) ...

You might want to entertain attending even if you've seen me present this one before.  I will be showing new Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 features like LinqDataSource, improved design time experience for ASP.NET AJAX extender controls, AJAX Web Part drag and drop, and anything else I find between now and then:). This session will cover some of ...

July 18th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Building Powerful Composite Applications with IDV Solutions' Visual Fusion Suite More and more enterprises are adopting composite applications as a means to create unique blends of internal data and external services.  This webcast will inform the Microsoft developer community about the ...

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I was asked by someone in my management chain, let's call them Manager X, to build a sample Windows Vista Sidebar gadget that would be of potential use to our US Public Sector customers.  Since many Government employees travel and many consultants working for the US Government use the GSA Per Diem Rates, we decided to go with a rate ...

It's been a while since I've done a screencast.  I get quite a few ''How Do I?'' questions in my inbox from customers.  Quite often, the initial answer to your question is ''I don't know.''  When that's the case, it gives me the excuse to try it out:).  I am trying to get better at sharing the answers with everyone via the ...