Brad Abrams
Design Guidelines, Managed code and the .NET Framework
TechEd: Developer Designer Bless
I had a great time putting together the slides and demo for this talk… It should be fun one where I...
Author: BradA Date: 11/07/2006
A great day for shipping…
Today two of the products I have spent a bunch of time ship! .NET Framework 3.0 ships! With the 3.0...
Author: BradA Date: 11/07/2006
Welcome to TechEd Europe
I just got in last night into Barcelona for TechEd Europe.. One thing I love about my job is that I...
Author: BradA Date: 11/05/2006
AJAX Animations with the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit
Preparing for my talk at TechEd Europe gave me an excuse to play around with the animations support...
Author: BradA Date: 11/01/2006
Bringing new life to your VB6 apps
I just saw a cool screen cast on the Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0…. Great stuff! It enables...
Author: BradA Date: 10/30/2006
What is the deal with UpdatePanel
The developer for UpdatePanel recently posted a couple of good articles about the changes we made in...
Author: BradA Date: 10/30/2006
Search autocomplete with ASP.NET AJAX Extensions
I am working on a rich content app for one of my talks at TechEd Europe and I thought it would be a...
Author: BradA Date: 10/28/2006
ASP.NET AJAX on TheServerSide.NET
I saw Jack in my talk at The Ajax Experience conference yesterday and was happy to see that he wrote...
Author: BradA Date: 10/24/2006
Microsoft AJAX Library at the AJAX Experience
I had a great time at the AJAX Experience Conference today. John Resig did a good talk on choosing...
Author: BradA Date: 10/23/2006
Already a blast at the Ajax Experience
The conference has not even officially started and I am already having a blast. The long trip down...
Author: BradA Date: 10/23/2006
Book: Elements of C# Style
A few months ago I had the opportunity to review Elements of C# Style and I really enjoyed it. It is...
Author: BradA Date: 10/17/2006
Great Video and Slides for Building Occasionally Connected Client Apps
Steve has a great post (with Video and slides) for building offline apps… Worth a look! My guess is...
Author: BradA Date: 10/16/2006
Heading to Boston for the Ajax Experience Conference
October 23-25th the next installment of the Ajax Experience Conference is being held in Boston. I am...
Author: BradA Date: 10/11/2006
When there is no good name...
I noticed a good debate going on the BCL blog (and now Krzysztof Cwalina’s blog) about the naming of...
Author: BradA Date: 10/10/2006
Design Guidelines and Patterns and Practices Summit
I am looking forwarding to doing the keynote at the Pattern and Practices Summit today. I thought...
Author: BradA Date: 10/09/2006
The What and the How
I was talking recently with a coworker of mine about the “what” and the “how” of software projects....
Author: BradA Date: 10/07/2006
BLINQ Walk through posted
Just noticed that Patrick Spieler has a nice simple walk through of BLINQ. In a couple of easy steps...
Author: BradA Date: 10/01/2006
Careful what you ask for... ;-)
Thottam is asking folks to tell him about your experience with COM interop. I know many of you have...
Author: BradA Date: 09/29/2006
Check out the NYTimes reader...
The folks over at the NYTimes have released the beta of the NYTimes reader… a .NET Framework 3.0...
Author: BradA Date: 09/27/2006
Want to print a form in WinForms?
I just noticed the VB folks created a great little WinForms control that gives you the VB6 style...
Author: BradA Date: 09/23/2006
From Atlas to the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions
As you saw from ScottGu’s blog, we gave Atlas an official name and, in response to strong customer...
Author: BradA Date: 09/11/2006
Foreword for Accelerated C# 2005
I was glad to have the opportunity to write the foreword for Accelerated C# 2005. Trey asked me to...
Author: BradA Date: 09/11/2006
Thoughts on writing reviews...
Well, it is that time of year again here Microsoft – time for managers to write employee reviews...
Author: BradA Date: 09/09/2006
Speaking at the Patterns and Practices Conference
I was honored to be asked to speak at the Patterns and Practices Conference in October here on the...
Author: BradA Date: 09/07/2006
IronPython 1.0 Ships!
Wow – Very cool to see IronPython reach V1 status… and I particularly love the fact that we ship a...
Author: BradA Date: 09/06/2006
Running apps In the browser or Out?
I have been doing some thinking recently about what sort of client application model would benefit...
Author: BradA Date: 08/24/2006
Want to name Atlas?
Steven Smith has a good discussion going on about what we should name "Atlas"... I can confirm that...
Author: BradA Date: 08/17/2006
WinForms and Data: It just keeps getting better...
I love it when the product just keeps getting better over time.. Two new whitepapers were just...
Author: BradA Date: 08/10/2006
Performance: You are only as good as your measurements
I recently had a fun time baking cookies with my three year old son.. He had a great time scooping...
Author: BradA Date: 08/05/2006
.NET Framework Deployment Questions
A customer recently asked a set of questions about .NET Framework deployment that I suspect are very...
Author: BradA Date: 08/02/2006
Atlas Talk and demo in Spanish
Julio translated a recent atlas talk and demo I did into Spanish.. Great to see Atlas reaching a...
Author: BradA Date: 07/31/2006
Chinese Version of Framework Design Guidelines Published
I just heard that the Chinese translation of the Framework Design Guidelines was just released... I...
Author: BradA Date: 07/27/2006
Video from Web Design World Talk...
The video of my Web Design World talk was just posted... Take a look... I'd love to hear your...
Author: BradA Date: 07/26/2006
Framework Design Guidelines Interview
If it is good enough for the TheServerSide to repost, it is good enough for me to repost here ;-)...
Author: BradA Date: 07/25/2006
Get the Blinq Demo...
Polita Paulus does a great demo on Blinq. Polita Paulus – BLINQ (hint, the demo starts at 7:15).......
Author: BradA Date: 07/25/2006
Creating Smart Application Layouts with Windows Forms 2.0
The Windows Forms documentation team just published a new whitepaper about how to get a great layout...
Author: BradA Date: 07/24/2006
Live From Redmond.... it's Saturday Night!
Well, it is not really, but I it does remind me of staying up past my bedtime.... What Live from...
Author: BradA Date: 07/20/2006
Web Design World Slides...
Arturo and I had a great time at Web Design World in Seattle this past week... It was really good to...
Author: BradA Date: 07/16/2006
What is Atlas?
Matt Gibbs (the dev manager for Atlas) recently posted a great article on Atlas... A very good...
Author: BradA Date: 07/13/2006
Great Looking Windows Forms Apps
I just noticed that Mike Swanson was blogging about CSS-Like Visual Styling for Windows Forms with...
Author: BradA Date: 07/09/2006
A UK developer user group review the Framework Design Guidelines
I just noticed that a UK based developer user group reviewed the Framework Design Guidelines......
Author: BradA Date: 07/06/2006
Some great .NET Framework 3.0 examples...
I just noticed that a design house has started putting up some great examples of what is possible...
Author: BradA Date: 07/05/2006
Slide and Demo from my Keynote at CFUnited
I am having a blast this week at the ColdFusion conference CFUnited. Here are the slides from my...
Author: BradA Date: 06/29/2006
Atlas in Spanish...
Andres Sanabria, the lead PM for ASP.NET and Atlas, happens to be from glorious Colombia recently...
Author: BradA Date: 06/23/2006
Check out Blinq...
What percentage of web applications would you say fall into the category of glorified...
Author: BradA Date: 06/23/2006
CFUnited here I come....
Next week I head out to the DC area for a ColdFusion conference called CFUnited... At the conference...
Author: BradA Date: 06/21/2006
Two books on Atlas already?
Can you believe we already have two books published on Atlas? Makes me think we have hit on...
Author: BradA Date: 06/20/2006
MSDN Webcast on Atlas
David Barkol, one of our partners, recently posted a webcast of a good introduction to Ajax and...
Author: BradA Date: 06/19/2006
C# Online.NET Reviews the Framework Design Guidelines
C# Online.NET posted a very good review of the Framework Design Guidelines... Here is my favorite...
Author: BradA Date: 06/19/2006
You gotta love SeeWindowsVista
Have you checked out https://www.seewindowsvista.com/??? It is a very cool way to see some amazing...
Author: BradA Date: 06/12/2006