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February 2007 - Posts

I'm off to London tomorrow for DevWeek , my favorite European developers' conference. This is the tenth annual DevWeek, and my tenth DevWeek as well. In fact, I'm the only speaker who has been at every DevWeek since its inception. My good friend Nick Read More...
In recent months, I've taught a number of classes and conference sessions on what I consider to be one of the most important--and under-documented--topics in ASP.NET: asynchronous programming. It is THE secret to building highly scalable ASP.NET Web sites, Read More...
One of the most interesting characteristics of ASP.NET AJAX is that the client half (the Microsoft AJAX Library) is full of features not exposed by the server half (the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions). A case in point is drag-drop. The DragOverlayExtender Read More...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...