Review: ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed

Do you want to learn ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX quickly? If yes, Robert Foster's book is waiting for you at various online stores, but why not you spend some time reading Anand's review of the book first? In this review, Anand examines the content of the book and provides suggestions for improvement. After going through the review, you will be in a position to judge if the book will be useful for you....Full Article.

Using Expression Builders in ASP.NET

ASP.NET offers a variety of ways to inject the results of a server-side expression (such as DateTime.Now.ToString()) into the rendered markup of an ASP.NET page. The most common way is to add a Label Web control to the page and then from the Page_Load event handler (or some other suitable event handler) assign the value to display to the Label's Text property. If you ever created web applications using ASP.NET's predecessor, classic ASP, or if you ...Full Article.

Weekend Humor: Features and Complexity

A Dilbert comic strip for some weekend humor - Scott Adams on features and complexity...
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Cloud Computing, Windows Azure and .NET

New opportunities and possibilities with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure - complete with a familiar .NET development platform...
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Sync and Sharing for Applications - Live Framework

Another PDC announcement - the Live Framework enables sync and sharing across devices and users and brings that new capability to your own applications...
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Script# Programming in the Large

Some large-scale Ajax apps and frameworks - the Live Framework and Office 14, both announced at PDC - built using Script#...
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C# 4.0, Dynamic Programming and JSON

C# 4.0 features a new dynamic keyword that allows you to mix in a bit of late-bound code in the midst of your otherwise statically typed code. This helps cleanup the string-based programming mess that is a characteristic of late-bound code. In fact, there are a number of scenarios that would benefit from dynamic typing in my opinion in addition to interop with other dynamic code (such as Silverlight talking to the DOM or a .NET app talking to Office automation APIs). For example:

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