wintellect-blogs|Feb 19, 2007

Favorite Travel Photos

Travel is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s great getting to see exotic and faraway places. On the other hand, it hurts to be away from home a lot, and there’s nothing lonelier than sitting in a hotel room all by yourself on the other side of the world wishing you…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 19, 2007

The Great Wall of China

While in Beijing earlier this month, I took a day trip to the Great Wall of China. I entered the wall through the gate in Badaling, which is about an hour’s drive from downtown Beijing. The air was crisp and cold, but I stayed warm by hiking about a mile in each direction. It’s straight up either way…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 3, 2007

Caught Up (Finally!)

I’ve been swamped with work in recent months, much of it revolving around ASP.NET AJAX. This week I finished updating all the ASP.NET AJAX code samples, labs, and whitepapers that Wintellect built for Microsoft for RTM. Along the way, I discovered a bug in the ASP.NET AJAX January Futures CTP that resulted from a bug…
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web-development|Feb 1, 2007

Microsoft Publishes Source Code for ASP.NET AJAX

Yep, it’s true. Have you ever wondered how UpdatePanel works its magic? Find out from the source code. You can download an MSI containing the source code here. It even comes with debugging symbols in case you want to step from your own code into ASP.NET AJAX. How cool is that?    
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web-development|Jan 26, 2007

Changes in ASP.NET AJAX RTM Release

I’ve spent a lot of time this week updating ASP.NET AJAX code samples from RC to RTM. I discovered some changes that aren’t documented in the migration guide. One of them in particular cost me several hours of work. First, as the migration guide notes, the AutoCompleteExtender control was moved from the CTP (preview) bits…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 23, 2007

ASP.NET AJAX is Here!

In case you didn’t know, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 just went live on the ASP.NET AJAX Web site. It has finally RTMed!
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web-development|Nov 13, 2006

ASP.NET AJAX Beta 2 Gotcha

I was porting samples from ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 to Beta 2 today and ran into a problem that I suspect others will run into, too. A custom script file that loaded fine in Beta 1 wouldn’t load in Beta 2. Turns out that Beta 2 adds a new requirement to custom script files for…
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Blogs|Nov 13, 2006

TechEd Europe

I arrived home this weekend after a trip to Barcelona for TechEd Europe. This year TechEd Europe was split into two events. Last week was the TechEd for developers; this week is the one for IT folks. In terms of turnout and quality of content, it was the most successful TechEd Europe ever. The star of the…
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wintellect-blogs|Oct 27, 2006

Why Don’t Developers Ever Get to Sleep?

Scrib (Kenn Scribner, that is) and I have been in death march mode since late last week finalizing all the content that’s going to be used at ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as “Atlas”) Beta launches in Barcelona and Las Vegas in coming weeks. We’re dotting the Is and crossing the Ts tonight in hopes of…
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Blogs|Oct 22, 2006

Is Your AutoCompleteExtender Not Working?

As you’re probably aware by now, the first ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as “Atlas”) beta has been published. Like a lot of folks, I’m slogging through all my old Atlas code porting it to work on the beta. There are LOTS of changes, and porting a non-trivial app takes time. I feel sorry for book authors,…
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wintellect-blogs|Sep 25, 2006

New P-51

Yesterday I finished building a new P-51 Mustang. We suffered torrential rains this weekend in Tennessee, but I managed to squeeze a test flight in between rain storms. Here’s a shot of the new bird sitting on the runway. I had the cowl removed so I could tune the engine. Click the picture to enlarge and…
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wintellect-blogs|Sep 20, 2006

WPF Talent Needed, Too

Everything I said about ASP.NET and Atlas in my previous blog post applies to WPF, too. We need a person with a passion for and deep knowledge of WPF to deliver training classes, perform consulting work, and do content development. Even if you’re not that person but you know someone who might be, let us…
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