Brad Abrams
Design Guidelines, Managed code and the .NET Framework
Video from Building a Great Media Driven Web Site (with Silverlight and ASP.NET)
A while back I did a customer briefing about how to use Silverlight and ASP.NET to build a great...
Author: BradA Date: 01/30/2008
ASP.NET MVC Example Application over Northwind with the Entity Framework
Over last month over the holidays, Lance Olson and I spent some time porting ScottGu's excellent MVC...
Author: BradA Date: 01/29/2008
Senior Developers for ASP.NET and Silverlight Wanted!
There has never been a more exciting time to be a web developer! The pace of innovation in the web...
Author: BradA Date: 01/28/2008
Book Review: Made to Stick
I just finished reading (ok... listening) to Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die....
Author: BradA Date: 01/27/2008
WPF Coming into the mainstream with excellent component vendor support
I love the ecosystem around Microsoft technology... The 3rd party component vendors add some much...
Author: BradA Date: 01/24/2008
ASP.NET Personal Web Site Starter Kit - Ajax Enabled with .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008
I recently grabbed the ASP.NET Personal Web Site Starter Kit that we wrote for VS2005.NET Framework...
Author: BradA Date: 01/21/2008
Pictures from my Houston TechFest gig
It has been a while since Houston TechFest, but I just noticed that Zain got some photos up.. You...
Author: BradA Date: 01/20/2008
.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster Updated
A while back I blogged about the .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster... We made a few tweaks and...
Author: BradA Date: 01/12/2008
User Experience in the Enterprise: Lawson's flash ship manufacturing and distribution application
Well, we are not even out of January yet and there is at least a hint of one of my 2008 prediction...
Author: BradA Date: 01/12/2008
Video "Framework Engineering: Architecting, Designing, and Developing Reusable Libraries" posted
Krys got his very popular TechEd Europe session on framework engineering posted. Framework...
Author: BradA Date: 01/10/2008
Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter video site live
A while back I blogged about the Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter event and some of you asked about how...
Author: BradA Date: 01/09/2008
Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition In the works!
Krzysztof spilled the beans... We just started working on the 2nd edition of the Framework Design...
Author: BradA Date: 01/03/2008
Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event in LA, Feb 27th
I will be heading down LA on Feb 27th for the combined launch event for VS2008, SQL Server 2008 and...
Author: BradA Date: 01/02/2008
Software Development Predictions for 2008
Happy New Year! Not too long ago, I was asked for my predictions for the IT-Technology in 2008......
Author: BradA Date: 12/31/2007
Web Hosters offering ASP.NET 3.5
With .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008 shipping just over a month ago, I was very excited to see a...
Author: BradA Date: 12/27/2007
Silverlight MacWindows debugging play-by-play
Martin saw my keynote at ReMix Boston and wanted to try the demo himself to find out if it was all...
Author: BradA Date: 12/23/2007
Results for Ajax usage among .NET developers
Simone Chiaretta recently posted the results to his Ajax usage survey. Check out the: .NET Ajax...
Author: BradA Date: 12/21/2007
Using VS2008 to Target .NET Framework 2.0 with ASP.NET AJAX
As I mentioned last month, VS 2008 fully supports building applications for .NET Framework 2.0......
Author: BradA Date: 12/19/2007
Ajax usage among .NET developers
Simone Chiaretta is trying to gather some informal data on Ajax usage among .NET Developers. It is a...
Author: BradA Date: 12/18/2007
Building a Great Media Driven Web Site (with Silverlight and ASP.NET)
We had a group of customers (and potential) customers out to campus earlier this week and I was...
Author: BradA Date: 12/14/2007
ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions: All About Dynamic Data
Dynamic data is a very cool feature of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions that allows you to trivially easy...
Author: BradA Date: 12/14/2007
What is new in the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview
As I am sure you saw, we recently posted the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions... I thought i'd do a brief...
Author: BradA Date: 12/10/2007
The Wait is Over: ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview Posted
Ok, ok, it took us a little longer than we expected, but we finally got the ASP.NET 3.5 Extension...
Author: BradA Date: 12/09/2007
PDC08: I can't wait!
We just announced that PDC 2008 will be in LA Oct 27-30... I just love the PDC... it is a HUGE...
Author: BradA Date: 12/08/2007
new book: ASP.NET 2.0: Your visual blueprint for developing Web applications
Chris Love, I long time friend of mine and an excellent member of the ASP.NET community recently...
Author: BradA Date: 12/03/2007
MSDN Webcast Video Posted: An Introduction to Silverlight (Level 100)
They just recently posted my Web Cast on Silverlight in downloadable and streamable formats. It is a...
Author: BradA Date: 12/02/2007
NBA.com launches excellent Silverlight Photo gallery
Check out www.nba.com... over in the left hand column, just under the scores, there is a very nice...
Author: BradA Date: 12/01/2007
MSDN Webcast: An Introduction to Silverlight (Level 100)
I will be doing an introduction to Silverlight as part of an MSDN web cast... If you have been...
Author: BradA Date: 11/30/2007
ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit Release for VS2008
If you are a web developer just evaluating ASP.NET 3.5 and VS2008, I strong recommend you go grab...
Author: BradA Date: 11/20/2007
VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 RTM
We made it, just in time for your turkey-day fun! You can go out and download VS 2008 Express (for...
Author: BradA Date: 11/19/2007
My interview with the Switch on The Code blog
I had a good email interview with Switch on the Code about Silverlight... It was also cool that it...
Author: BradA Date: 11/19/2007
RSS Feed with the new ASP.NET MVC Framework
I thought I'd add my own MVC example to the great work that ScottGu and Hanselman have already...
Author: BradA Date: 11/15/2007
NBC Direct: A new Companion App
I have been convinced for a while now that the industry is headed toward more of a companion...
Author: BradA Date: 11/12/2007
Cool Free ASP.NET AJAX Rich Text Editor
Kannan Sundarajan has written Rich Text Editor control using ASP.NET AJAX and shared it under the...
Author: BradA Date: 11/11/2007
Mix is Back!
Mix 08 is back in Vegas... I am very excited about getting together for the 3rd year in a row to...
Author: BradA Date: 11/09/2007
A couple Framework Design Tools...
Good tools are essential to good engineering... Recently I ran across a couple of good tools that...
Author: BradA Date: 11/08/2007
Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter
On November 29, 2007 Microsoft will be hosting Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter on the Redmond,...
Author: BradA Date: 11/07/2007
.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster
Many of you have asked for an update to the .NET Framework namespace poster for 3.5... Thanks to...
Author: BradA Date: 11/03/2007
Add video to your blog for free with Silverlight
Thanks to the folks in Expression Media and the Silverlight Streaming it is now amazingly easy to...
Author: BradA Date: 11/02/2007
Cool Silverlight Charts from Chart FX
The guys over at Chart FX have long done some great .NET data visualization controls... recently...
Author: BradA Date: 10/31/2007
Reference Implementation of the Web Client bundles from
As Blaine and Glenn mentioned, this week the great folks at Patterns and Practices where able to...
Author: BradA Date: 10/28/2007
Poll: Allowing .NET EXEs to run off a network share
By default .NET applications (EXEs) that are launched from a remote file system (eg...
Author: BradA Date: 10/26/2007
Video posted for "Creating and Delivering rich Media and Video on the Web"
I finally got my TechEd video re-posted... For more information on the talk, please see:...
Author: BradA Date: 10/26/2007
Brad Abrams' DotNetRocks Interview
I love the DNR guys.. They have a great show and I was fortunate enough to be able to talk in person...
Author: BradA Date: 10/25/2007
PM Tip #14: Great teams have members that defy roles
Update: See the full list of PM Tips. I was asked recently to define the roles for PMs on my team....
Author: BradA Date: 10/24/2007
Silverlight Showcase updated...
We have some great wins with Silverlight 1.0... A few I showed off at ReMix Boston were The HSN...
Author: BradA Date: 10/19/2007
Popfly for everyone!
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Ballmer announced that we are opening Popfly to a public beta today! It...
Author: BradA Date: 10/18/2007
I can only access VistaIIS7 sites from localhost...
I have personally run into this issue a few times and I have helped a couple of people debug it....
Author: BradA Date: 10/18/2007
Some pictures from DevLINK
Joe Kunk, President of the Greater Lansing (MI) User Group for .Net, just sent me a couple of...
Author: BradA Date: 10/17/2007
ReMix Boston -- the fun doesn't end!
I had a great time in Boston last week... if you made it there, then I bet you did too. But whether...
Author: BradA Date: 10/16/2007