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
More upgrade related content from ScottGu
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