Brad Abrams
Design Guidelines, Managed code and the .NET Framework
Changes in .NET Framework 2.03.0 SP1
As many folks know, .NET Framework 3.5 shipping a little later this year will include Service Pack 1...
Author: BradA Date: 10/15/2007
DevLink Fun...
I had a great time DevLink today... I was honored to kick it off the event with the morning...
Author: BradA Date: 10/12/2007
Microsoft Joins the OpenAjax steering committee
Almost a year ago Microsoft joins the OpenAjax Alliance, then a month ago, Microsoft Passes the...
Author: BradA Date: 10/10/2007
ReMix Boston Keynote videos posted...
Wow -- I love living in the Internet age... The amazing AV folks here at ReMix Boston have already...
Author: BradA Date: 10/08/2007
ReMix Boston Keynote thoughts...
I had a great time at the keynote today. The audience was very engaged and the partners that came up...
Author: BradA Date: 10/07/2007
Brad Abrams Interview with informIT
A few months ago I got a chance to have a chat with Ted Neward about Silverlight, the .NET...
Author: BradA Date: 10/05/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Multi-Targeting
Krzysztof Cwalina recently posted about a new set of FxCop rules that making it easier to use Visual...
Author: BradA Date: 10/03/2007
.NET Framework Source Code Release
I am very excited about making the source code to the .NET Framework publicly available. I think...
Author: BradA Date: 10/03/2007
Contextual Autocomplete
The good folks at P&P have just released a cool little project. It is essentially an expansion...
Author: BradA Date: 10/03/2007
My PodTech Interview on Silverlight, WPF for ISVs
I recently had a chance to do an interview on Silverlight and the general developer space... We...
Author: BradA Date: 10/02/2007
Microsoft Passes the OpenAjax InteropFest Test
Recently Bertrand posted OpenAjax InteropFest 1.0: Microsoft's entry. The OpenAjax's InteropFest's...
Author: BradA Date: 09/23/2007
I have a theory... help me prove it!
I have a theory that you can't build amazingly great products if you don't deeply know the customer....
Author: BradA Date: 09/21/2007
Microsoft @ AJAXWorld
While I am bummed that I am not able to go to AJAXWorld this time, I am super excited about some of...
Author: BradA Date: 09/20/2007
Phil Haack joins the ranks!
I am very excited that Phil Haack is joining the ASP.NET product team... He will bring a wealth of...
Author: BradA Date: 09/18/2007
ASP.NET AJAX on your IPhone...
Matt posts a bit about an update to ASP.NET AJAX to work with a recent update to the IPhone......
Author: BradA Date: 09/14/2007
Heading to ReMix Boston
I am super excited to be headed to Boston in a couple of weeks for ReMix Boston... I have heard from...
Author: BradA Date: 09/13/2007
Hyperlink your source code
I just noticed that Vance Morrison posted the source code to his latest project (Hyperaddin for...
Author: BradA Date: 09/04/2007
Demos, Slides and Screenshots from my SecondLife Adventure
My SecondLife experience was certainly novel and I learned a lot in the process. Even though some...
Author: BradA Date: 09/01/2007
MySilverlightTV on .NET Framework 3.5 Beta2
With some help from Harris Chan and Steve Marx I got MySilverlightTV updated to the latest and...
Author: BradA Date: 08/30/2007
Visual Studio 2nd Life Speaker Series: Silverlight
I can't wait to do my first virtual user's group visit... This should be a blast! I went by there...
Author: BradA Date: 08/29/2007
Slides from my Houston TechFest keynote
I had a great time today a the Houston TechFest 2007. My keynote focused on Silverlight, but covered...
Author: BradA Date: 08/25/2007
Ready for Houston TechFest Tomorrow?
Well, I got into Houston late last night and now all I have to do is talk to a few customers and fix...
Author: BradA Date: 08/24/2007
Dojo adds Silverlight support
My second favorite Ajax library just added support for Silverlight. From this recent announcement it...
Author: BradA Date: 08/20/2007
Cool new ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight demo application
Steve Marx apparently never gets tired of writing video centric web sites... he has done it again...
Author: BradA Date: 08/17/2007
The .NET Show on Silverlight
Robert Hess has none other than Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander on for his final episode of the .NET...
Author: BradA Date: 08/15/2007
Some great Ajax and Silverlight videos in Spanish
Julio Casal pointed me at the MSGuayaquil (.NET User Group in Ecuador) Silverlight video library....
Author: BradA Date: 08/12/2007
New Acropolis Interview posted
The good folks over at Virtual TechEd recently posted an interview with the Acropolis folks... Take...
Author: BradA Date: 08/07/2007
Silverlight Flight Simulator
A reader that works for Lufthansa sent me a link to another addictive Silverlight game.. this is a...
Author: BradA Date: 08/06/2007
Create your own 100MB of Astoria Data
At Mix 07 we announced the Astoria Data Service which offers a REST based access to relational data....
Author: BradA Date: 08/05/2007
Devscovery in Redmond, WA and Silicon Valley
The good folks at Wintellect are putting on a conference focused on the latest of Microsoft...
Author: BradA Date: 08/01/2007
Visual Basic, Silverlight and SecondLife TODAY!
What better combination could you ask for? Earlier I posted about Visual Studio in SecondLife.. I...
Author: BradA Date: 07/31/2007
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 upgrade to VS 2008 Beta2
In my post recently about VS 2008 release I mentioned that I'd love to see folks try out upgrading...
Author: BradA Date: 07/30/2007
Houston TechFest 2007
I am very excited to be giving the keynote at the Houston TechFest 2007 on August 25th.. If you are...
Author: BradA Date: 07/30/2007
That is a full day's work!
I am starting to work on writing some annual employee performance reviews and I was thinking about...
Author: BradA Date: 07/28/2007
Some help downloading Visual Studio 2008 Beta2...
OK, so as many of you have noticed, Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 is big (about 3GB for the ISO image)....
Author: BradA Date: 07/28/2007
VS2008, .NET 3.5, Silverlight and ASP.NET Futures
I am in the middle of a vacation to sunny, hot and humid North Carolina, but I had to take a break...
Author: BradA Date: 07/27/2007
Headed to DevLink 2007 ?
I was very happy to be invited to speak at DevLink 2007 which will be in Nashville, TN on Oct 11 and...
Author: BradA Date: 07/08/2007
FxCop Honored with Chairman's Award for Engineering Excellence
Every year, Microsoft honors a few innovations that have furthered the state of engineering...
Author: BradA Date: 07/05/2007
Acropolis July CTP is out!
Care to guess what the Acropolis team was doing right before the 4th of July holiday? Well, very,...
Author: BradA Date: 07/05/2007
TechEd Video posted for "Creating and Delivering rich Media and Video on the Web"
I just got the video for my talk at TechEd this year and I thought I'd share it with you.. For more...
Author: BradA Date: 07/03/2007
Visual Studio in Second Life
Did you know that Microsoft is investing in Second Life? That is right... we recently bought an...
Author: BradA Date: 06/29/2007
My Hard disk crash: The Resolution
Thank you to those of you that offered such good suggestions on my recent hard disk crash. My wife...
Author: BradA Date: 06/27/2007
Fun with the power of Silverlight 1.1
Looks like the folks at Terralever have had fun with Silverlight 1.1... They built a very cool...
Author: BradA Date: 06/27/2007
Silent install of the .NET Framework
When I talked to ISV, they often just want to use the .NET Framework as an implementation detail of...
Author: BradA Date: 06/26/2007
ColdFusion get an UpdatePanel
I was very excited to see that the good folks over at BlueDragon have gotten a version of...
Author: BradA Date: 06/23/2007
Help! My hard disk crashed
The kitchen laptop crashed today with a few weeks worth of unbacked up information (including...
Author: BradA Date: 06/23/2007
Acropolis Interview on DotNetRocks!
I love the DNR guys... they recently posted a very good interview with the acropolis gang... Have a...
Author: BradA Date: 06/22/2007
Great acropolis explanations
Today I ran across two very interesting and well written explanations of different aspects of...
Author: BradA Date: 06/21/2007
ClickOnce in Firefox
I just noticed that James Dobson recently got the FFClickOnce support added as an official FireFox...
Author: BradA Date: 06/19/2007
Silverlight Podcast on PodLeaders.com
Tom Raftery just posted the podcast I did with him a few weeks ago. In this podcast we talk about...
Author: BradA Date: 06/18/2007