Brian Goldfarb's Blog

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Roadmap for Mobile Web Development with ASP.NET

I've been getting a bunch of questions about our Mobile Controls and our mobile support/roadmap...

Author: bgold Date: 01/30/2006

Seeking the best of the best: Job on the Web Platform and Tools Product Management team

I have an open head count on my team that I’m looking to fill with the best of the best. The job...

Author: bgold Date: 01/23/2006

Another free ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 training offer

Keith Smith, who I introduced earlier, pointed me at a great promotional training offer for ASP.NET...

Author: bgold Date: 01/19/2006

Cool ASP.NET 2.0 based CMS solution

A very cool link popped up in my Inbox today, a 100% ASP.NET 2.0 based CMS solution -- best of all...

Author: bgold Date: 01/19/2006

Why Visual Studio? Take a Guided Tour

Do you ever need to show someone why visual studio or help walk them through their first...

Author: bgold Date: 01/18/2006

SQL SiteMap Provider

We are almost complete with part 2 of the Provider Toolkit (in editing now to be published in a few...

Author: bgold Date: 01/16/2006

Cool Task List sample app for Atlas

If you aren't already an avid reader of Scott Guthrie's Blog, you should change that -- he has been...

Author: bgold Date: 01/13/2006

Meet the Source Fource (and get some cool action figures!)

The MSDN Webcast/V-Lab team is running a very cool marketing campaign to get you watching and trying...

Author: bgold Date: 01/13/2006

Great info on building Starter Kits (VSI)

You may already know about this, but there is a great article on MSDN about how to build Visual...

Author: bgold Date: 01/10/2006

ASP.NET "Atlas" December CTP is here!

The holiday's have come early! Go download the December CTP of ASP.NET "Atlas" -- Lots of changes...

Author: bgold Date: 12/22/2005

Welcome Keith Smith!

Keith Smith has recently joined my team to market our wonderful Web Platform and Tools technologies...

Author: bgold Date: 12/20/2005

Happy holidays from us! Free ASP.NET 2.0 Training!

Brad McCabe and Microsoft Learning have put together a great free-training offer as a holiday...

Author: bgold Date: 12/18/2005

MIX 06 -- the Web Show! Registration now open

An event surely not to miss, I'm already itching to go! Registration opened today for Microsoft’s...

Author: bgold Date: 12/15/2005

CSS Property Window Add-in For VS2005 Released!

This has been a small side project that the team has been working on for a LONG time to try and...

Author: bgold Date: 12/12/2005

Great new content on MSDN including Data Sources, Converting apps from 2003-->2005, more on the JumpStart series, and building data-bound controls -- check it out!

Haven't seen these in the RSS feed yet, but the copies of Nikhil's amazing series on creating Data...

Author: bgold Date: 12/05/2005

ASP.NET 2.0 Security FAQ / Wiki Released

J.D. Meier and team have been busy creating the ASP.NET 2.0 Security FAQ: an easy to use Q&A...

Author: bgold Date: 11/29/2005

Cool ASP.NET "Atlas" tutorial video from Dan Wahlin, MVP

Dan has put together a very cool video tutorial for ASP.NET "Atlas" -- definitely worth checking...

Author: bgold Date: 11/16/2005

Brian’s Top 10 Articles on MSDN

Ok, so I just spent some time surfing around MSDN, looking at the new site and reliving lots of the...

Author: bgold Date: 11/13/2005

PayPal-enabled Commerce Starter Kit for ASP.NET 2.0

The commerce starter kit ROCKS – plain and simple. The code is clean and extensible. It works...

Author: bgold Date: 11/10/2005

Web Deployment Projects are here

We heard a lot of feedback about the build process and new project system for managing more complex...

Author: bgold Date: 11/09/2005

The Post-Launch Era / great content for upgrading to ASP.NET 2.0

Well we are now entering the POST LAUNCH era -- how exciting is that? As part of this we've done a...

Author: bgold Date: 11/08/2005

Watch the launch keynote live!

Launch is upon us -- this is a very exciting day for me! I jump on a plane here in a few hours to...

Author: bgold Date: 11/05/2005

Want a job? We have openings on the User Education team for ASP.NET/VWD and IIS

We're hiring writers again. If you're interested in being a documentation writer on the ASP.NET team...

Author: bgold Date: 11/03/2005

Download the official .NET Framework 2.0 Redist TODAY

The official launch of Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET F/X 2.0 is still 10 days away, but you can...

Author: bgold Date: 10/28/2005

Provider Whitepaper FINALLY available!!!

Sorry for the delay, but it will be worth it -- the 10 part, 120-page provider whitepaper is ready...

Author: bgold Date: 10/18/2005

XCode and Visual Studio go head to head

https://blog.phanfare.com/ I blogged earlier about a cool photo sharing product called Phanfare and I...

Author: bgold Date: 10/17/2005

ASP.NET Jumpstart: Media Share Library Starter Kit Article #2

Second article in Bill Evjen's Jumpstart series went live today. For those who didn't remember...

Author: bgold Date: 10/13/2005

ASP.NET Jumpstart: Media Share Library Starter Kit

Bill Evjen launched the first article in his JumpStart series that will walk users through a new...

Author: bgold Date: 10/07/2005

Want to test drive VS05 and ASP.NET 2.0 without an install? V-Labs to the rescue

That is right folks, the new ASP.NET 2.0 Virtual Labs are live -- you can go in, walk through the...

Author: bgold Date: 10/04/2005

Another round of content on ASP.NET 2.0

Kent did a lot of work the past few weeks to get all kinds of new content online --- and I'm going...

Author: bgold Date: 09/28/2005

Building things for the US Federal Government?

While at the PDC I ran into my good friends who work in the "Federal" group at Microsoft. They are...

Author: bgold Date: 09/22/2005

Keeping a secret is hard… but now Microsoft Expression “Quartz Web Designer” is not a secret :)

I’ve never been the best at keeping secrets, especially the kind of secrets that everyone should...

Author: bgold Date: 09/14/2005

The cat’s out of the bag: ASP.NET “Atlas”

I’ve disappeared for a bit because I had focus in on the many different great things we just...

Author: bgold Date: 09/14/2005

Beginners guide to Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition

Finally complete, the Beginners Guide to Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. This 14 part...

Author: bgold Date: 09/09/2005

New content on the MSDN dev center: localization

One of the best new features in ASP.NET 2.0 is the integrated support for site localization. There...

Author: bgold Date: 09/09/2005

PDC05, Nikhil Kothari, "Atlas" and feedback

Nikhil is looking to get some feedback for his PDC presence and asked me to send you his way -- so...

Author: bgold Date: 09/08/2005

HasLayout -- Mysteries unveiled

In conjunction with WaSP members (like Dean Edwards and others) and other experts, Markus Mielke...

Author: bgold Date: 09/01/2005

Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards

This article was written awhile ago but got stuck in our MSDN Editorial queue (with about 10 other...

Author: bgold Date: 08/31/2005

Awesome online photosharing site using ASP.NET - Phanfare

I heard about Phanfare, several months back and knew that it was a very cool use of the .NET...

Author: bgold Date: 08/30/2005

Free 3 hours of ASP.NET 2.0 training from AppDev

AppDev is offering up 3 hours of super high quality ASP.NET 2.0 training for free! Get in on the...

Author: bgold Date: 08/29/2005

Over time our plan is to turn these blog posts into whitepapers, but why wait for the official...

Author: bgold Date: 08/29/2005

Great new articles about SiteMaps and the SiteMapProvider

Check out these recently launched whitepapers that detail the site navigation system and custom site...

Author: bgold Date: 08/29/2005

Using IIS with VS 2005 and the new Web Project system

Scott has been busy preparing lots of useful content -- this is even more info about the new Web...

Author: bgold Date: 08/23/2005

Beta 2--RTM changes, Disk Cacheable and detailed API changes

We recently posted a detailed article describing the changes between Beta2 and RTM of ASP.NET 2.0....

Author: bgold Date: 08/23/2005

VS2005 Project System - the story

Scott Guthrie just posted all the juicy details about the ASP.NET 2.0 and VS2005 project system and...

Author: bgold Date: 08/22/2005

Changes to ASP.NET 2.0 from Beta2-->RTM

It is time to start preparing for the RTM of ASP.NET 2.0 and in order to do that I've had the team...

Author: bgold Date: 08/20/2005

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