Dipitycraigshoemaker: Cool! Episode 3 of my series 'Mastering ASP.NET Ajax Library' is now up on @tekpub - http://bit.ly/aqHD8b #aspnet #ajax
When Rob Conery (@robconery) and James Avery (@averyj) announced TekPub, I remember thinking, "why didn’t I do something like that!?" :)If you are not yet familiar, TekPub is website that provides ...
Thanks to all who joined my tonight at UCLA for my talk on the ASP.NET Ajax Library. If you are looking for the code to download from the talk you can get it here.
Thanks to everyone who came to my ASP.NET AJAX 4 talk at the Orange Country .NET User Group. Special thanks to Reza Madani for organizing the talk and running such a great group! Here is the code...
In this episode of the Polymorphic Podcast Eric Hexter (@ehexter) and Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) join Craig Shoemaker (@craigshoemaker) to discuss Portable Areas. The Portable Areas contrib...
You don’t need to shell out the $250+ for a Kindle – use your iPhone, netbook or PC!For Christmas my lovely bride got me an iPod Touch. Now I am usually not a gadget guy, but this is one of the thi...
Stephen Walther (@swalther) and Craig Shoemaker discuss the latest announcements surrounding the ASP.NET Ajax Library during PDC09.Subscribe to the podcast!A New Name a New Home Now named ASP.N...
While the attendees of PDC09 likely expected to hear a plethora of announcements regarding Silverlight 3 all hopes were dashed when Scott Guthrie quickly glossed over advancements in Silverlight 3...
The ASP.NET AJAX Script Loader control will make your life easier. Gone are the days where you have to include a multi-line block of script includes on every web page. Gone are the days of double c...
Thanks to everyone who came to my ASP.NET AJAX 4 talk at the Inland Empire .NET User Group. Special thanks to James Johnson (@latringo) for organizing such a great group! Here is the code download ...
On this episode of Pixel8 Scott Hunter (@coolsch) joins us to discuss his team’s focus on simplicity and performance in ASP.NET. Scott was kind enough to surprise me with some talking points about...
While at PDC this year I had an opportunity to interview a number of smart and engaging people. One of my guests was Scott Hunter (@coolcsh) who these days is responsible for WebForms, ASP.NET Data...
In this episode of the Polymorphic Podcast I interview Gareth Down of nBuilder. Writing demo applications, prototypes and tests just got a whole lot easier using the fluent interface of nBuilder to...
Even if you can't make it to PDC for the convention you deserve a a chance to win some cool prizes! Learn how you could win an Asus netbook or a license to NetAdvantage for .NET by following @infra...
The ConceptI created “Ugly Outfitters” to showcase the interaction between Infragistics Drag & Drop, jQuery and Microsoft Ajax Preview 6. Why Ugly Outfitters? Well, I decided that rather than just ...
On one of the projects I am working on I needed a way to work get the JSON string generated from some sort of serialization process. If you are working Ajax or MVC controller actions, this work is...
For some reason the family of design patterns that exist around the Model View Controller pattern seem to be an elusive band of characters. The first time I encountered Model View Controller I st...
Stephen Walther, Microsoft Product Manager for ASP.NET AJAX, joins the show to discuss the recent advancements in the AJAX toolset found in Preview 6. Listen or download below! Full Sp...
craigshoemaker: . @ArielBH yep, sent you a message with a sample from the Engineering team - hope it is helpful :)
Rick Barraza returns to Pixel8 to discuss magic, storytelling, mind control interfaces and even a little development! According to Rick, true experience design mixes elements you may not automatic...
Update: I created a Windows 7 theme pack with all of these backgrounds. You can download it here.This weekend was one of those times I just couldn't get “that thing” out of my head. After a short c...
Dave Ward and I recently recorded a video demonstrating Dave’s techniques for quickly working with jQuery on any webpage. Dave does a great job quickly showing you how you can work with tools like ...
craigshoemaker: @jbogard what about if it just calls a private method to perform the calculation?
craigshoemaker: looks like I'll be getting my machine back tomorrow with Win7 on it
craigshoemaker: so very happy my baby girl was born happy and healthy last night :)
craigshoemaker: @Plip you should be over here. It's only 9:30 am - you'd have the whole day ahead of you!
craigshoemaker: Finished 'West Wing' on DVD last night - seriously has to be one of the best written and acted shows ever on TV
Today’s show features Microsoft MVP and Identity Mine integrator Laurent Bugnion. Laurent discusses his experience with working in XAML applications that use MVVM and working with developers and de...
A recent episode of the Polymorphic Podcast includes jQuery Secrets with Dave Ward. During our discussion Dave mentioned some techniques and tools to use alongside Firebug and jQuery. After our in...
Every year around this time I turn my attention to what I’ve done over the past year in order to update my MVP profile. While the engine Microsoft provides has many ways to list accomplishments an...
craigshoemaker: not even 7:30 am and the A/C has already kicked on upstairs (set for a cool 81F) - goodbye my dear paycheck - we had a great run together
craigshoemaker: @AlanNye true, but if I have code to explain - then I have a story to tell
craigshoemaker: RT @Encosia: I just created technical debt in order to pay down tech debt. This code is living paycheck to paycheck. This will not end well.
This week’s Pixel8 episode continues the series of user experience fundamentals with Dr. Tobias Komischke Director of User Experience at Infragistics. Tobias shares seven user-centered design conc...
Dave Ward specializes in writing about ASP.NET, jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX. He is a contributing author to ASP.NET Ajax in Action, Second Edition from Manning, Nerd Dinner’s JavaScript secret weapon,...
When I reported for Infragistics booth duty at TechEd 2009 the first person to walk up to me smiled and said, “So... what do you guys have for MVC?” Now I am pleased to announce I can do more than ...
My friend Simone Chiaretta is hosting a short poll looking to find out what type of Ajax adoption exists and what client frameworks and tools you use. He has an interesting post on some of the pre...
Jimmy Bogard, lead developer for the AutoMapper project, joins us today to discuss the inner workings and applications of the object-to-object mapper AutoMapper.AutoMapper is an object-to-object ma...
The dawn of user experience is a contestable topic. Some UX thought leaders place the discipline’s origin surrounding the emergence of user centered design in the 1980’s, while others see the the b...
craigshoemaker: Excellent customer service Netflix style - http://tr.im/ltdu
Note: Be sure to check out the Fast Feed if your are looking for the same content in 3/4th the time! Our Guests Join Jeffrey Palermo and Eric Hexter as they discuss the release version of ASP.NET...
craigshoemaker: @missbitties we would just baby-gate the bedroom and turn the baby monitor up
Senior Principal of Product Ideation and Design at Yahoo! Inc. and founder of LukeW Interface Designs Luke Wroblewski joins us to discuss how adding elements of constraint helps shape the design pr...
craigshoemaker: HttpContext.IsCustomErrorEnabled http://tr.im/iIyk #aspnet
Michael L. Perry is a software developer, architect, host of the Adventures in Software podcast and creator of Update Controls. Update Controls is a framework available for WPF, WinForms and a few...
I’ve recently been in the habit of decorating links to Twitter profiles with the Twitter icon. This technique makes it easy for readers to scan a page and know exactly where the link points withou...
craigshoemaker: Rare C# keyword "where": Understanding Generics - Constraining Type Parameters Using where http://tr.im/invZ
I am pleased to announce that Secrets of Real World ASP.NET Dynamic Data Websites is now available as a Wrox Blox ebook. The material for this book is largely pulled from the recent talks I’ve giv...
craigshoemaker: article I did on cust pgr with the new @infragistics grid - video incl - good ASP.NET info in there if not a subscriber http://tr.im/hBI3
Yesterday I posted a podcast Digital Productivity Strategies for Developers where I talk about using Gmail for implementing the concepts found in the book Getting Things Done. I talk about not bein...
Our Guest: Jean-Paul Boodhoo Our special guest this week is Jean Paul Boodhoo who is a developer, trainer, and author specializing in .NET and Agile development. When I first heard about JP’s summ...
Over the years I have spent a fair amount of time thinking about design patterns surrounding the presentation layer. Just as your values as a grown-up are often determined by experiences you have a...
I realize this is a little late, but I thought I would put up links for the session materials to whomever attended my 10 Secrets of Real World Dynamic Data Websites at the Southern California Rock ...
I realize this is a little late, but I thought I would put up links for the session materials to whomever attended my 10 Secrets of Real World Dynamic Data Websites at the Southern California Rock ...
Scott Hunter brings a summary of the new features coming in ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Learn why you'll never have to type runat="server" again!Listen to the Show! Visual Studio 2010 Visu...
Scott Hunter brings a summary of the new features coming in ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Learn why you'll never have to type runat="server" again!Listen to the Show! Visual Studio 2010 Visu...
Listen to the Show! Resources Mentioned in the Show Interview with Scott Guthrie ASP.NET SEO BookRepository Implementing Ajax Live Form with NetAdvantage Controls Developers want control. ...
Listen to the Show! Resources Mentioned in the Show Interview with Scott Guthrie ASP.NET SEO BookRepository Implementing Ajax Live Form with NetAdvantage Controls Developers want control....
I recently introduced the BookRepository, which is a set of a few designed generated fake data. The is that if you are writing a test or a demo and just need some data objects and don’t want to hav...
I recently introduced the BookRepository, which is a set of a few classes designed generated fake data. The idea is that if you are writing a test or a demo and just need some data objects and don’...
A while back Scott Hanselman wrote about DarkRoom, a distraction-free writing environment. I tried DarkRoom for a while a number of years back, but quickly put it down in favor of all the features...
A while back Scott Hanselman wrote about DarkRoom, a distraction-free writing environment. I tried DarkRoom for a while a number of years back, but quickly put it down in favor of all the features...
Listen to the Show!Scott Guthrie and Craig Shoemaker take some time out of PDC 2008 to discuss Silverlight and highlights from the keynote address. Scott shares about current-day Silverlight integ...
Listen to the Show!Scott Guthrie and Craig Shoemaker take some time out of PDC 2008 to discuss Silverlight and highlights from the keynote address. Scott shares about current-day Silverlight integr...
A commenter recently requested a more in-depth sample demonstrating the technique I used in my Using jQuery to Call ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods post. He wanted to see how you could use jQuery to send...
A commenter recently requested a more in-depth sample demonstrating the technique I used in my Using jQuery to Call ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods post. He wanted to see how you could use jQuery to send...
Today I posted an article to my blog on the Infragistics site: Building an Ajax Master/Detail Page with the WebDataGrid. This post is worth checking out even if you are not a subscriber to the NetA...
Today I posted an article to my blog on the Infragistics site: Building an Ajax Master/Detail Page with the WebDataGrid. This post is worth checking out even if you are not a subscriber to the NetA...
Update: I recently added persistence features to the BookRepository. Check out: The Illusion of Persistence: Saving Test DataMy schedule is packed lately with writing test beds and sample code for...
My schedule is packed lately with writing test beds and sample code for presentations. One of the problems developers face when creating code that is turned over to a third party is to answer the q...
Listen to the Show!Michael Neel joins us today to discuss search engine optimization specifically for ASP.NET websites. Michael C. Neel is a Digital Media Developer with Jewelry Television and inde...
Listen to the Show!Michael Neel joins us today to discuss search engine optimization specifically for ASP.NET websites. Michael C. Neel is a Digital Media Developer with Jewelry Television and ind...
Listen to the Show!Michael Mahemoff has a background in computer science and psychology earning a PhD in building pattern languages. Michael is best known for his book, Ajax Design Patterns, where ...
Listen to the Show!Michael Mahemoff has a background in computer science and psychology earning a PhD in building pattern languages. Michael is best known for his book, Ajax Design Patterns, where ...
I recently wanted to use jQuery to call an ASP.NET AJAX page method. While doing my research on Google I ran across this very helpful post by Dave Ward which shows you how to use jQuery almost exac...
I recently wanted to use jQuery to call an ASP.NET AJAX page method. While doing my research on Google I ran across this very helpful post by Dave Ward which shows you how to use jQuery almost exac...
Listen to the Show!Jesse Liberty, the "Silverlight Geek", wants to help you dive deeper into Silverlight 2.0. Tackling practices like working with multi-page applications and clever ways to handle ...
Listen to the Show!Jesse Liberty, the "Silverlight Geek", wants to help you dive deeper into Silverlight 2.0. Tackling practices like working with multi-page applications and clever ways to handle ...
Listen to the Show!Steve Smith, owner of ASP Alliance and Lake Quincy Media joins us today to teach us about some hidden gems in ASP.NET caching and performance. Steve’s expertise in this area com...
Listen to the Show!Steve Smith, owner of ASP Alliance and Lake Quincy Media joins us today to teach us about some hidden gems in ASP.NET caching and performance. Steve’s expertise in this area com...
Listen to the Show!Composite Application Guidance for WPF: Prism Goes Prime Time The WPF answer to CAB is the Composite Application Guidance for WPF, formerly codename Prism.NOTE:Since the full nam...
The ASP.NET team released a new generated image control on to Codeplex today. You can download the bits here and read a very simple explanation of the control here.The concept is simple: a handler...
Today I get to spend the day with my best friend to celebrate our first decade of marriage together. My hope is that you get a chance to spend your life with someone as amazing as my wife!
Listen to the Show!Tamara Adlin is a customer experience expert and President of Adlin, Inc. Tamara is formerly a Senior Usability Specialist for Amazon.com and is currently a blogger, author, trai...
I just finished installing SP1 for .NET 3.5 and VS2008. I thought I would share the hoops I had to jump through in the event it saves you some time. Actually the process wasn't too painful. Be care...
Listen to the Show! Famed developer, speaker and author Billy Hollis joins the show today to discuss why developers need to avoid stagnation and keep pressing forward. Billy also shares some pragma...
Listen to the Show! David Platt is an author, speaker and developer who wants you to recognize that there is a problem in software interface design. Fear not - David is not alone. C...
Listen to the Show!My week spent in Orlando at TechEd 2008 was time well spent. Tradeshows like these are a great opportunity to meet smart people who are often delivered by the plane-load.One of t...
Listen to the Show!Jess Chadwick describes how to integrate the ASP.NET AJAX framework with ASP.NET MVC. With a few tricks up his sleeve, Jess makes it easier than it seems. Jess is "Lead Code Mon...
I recently created a number of screen casts that highlight the flexibility of one of NetAdvantage ASP.NET's controls - the WebSpellChecker. I share them here for your spell checking pleasure.Introd...
Listen to the ShowPete LePage is Product Manager of Internet Explorer Developer Division and he doesn’t want your web site to stink. Sharing from his talk given at TechEd 2008, Pete highlights 10 ...
Listen to the Show Steve Schofield is an IIS expert working for webhost ORCS Web. Steve and his team are responsible for such sites as Channel9, ASP.NET, weblogs.asp.net and ASP Alliance. As...
Listen to the ShowDebugging guru John Robbins brings to life the saying, “you cannot debug what you cannot see.” John is generous with guidance and resources that illustrate why knowing a little a...
Listen to the Show! When first introduced to Dynamic Data, developers often write the technology off as “just another Microsoft grid.” Microsoft ASP.NET Program Manager Scott Hunter joins us toda...
Dynamic Data websites use a flexible template-based architecture that makes working with data driven websites a much more fluid process for developers.For further information check Scott Hunter's d...
New Pixel8 Podcast: Jose Farjardo’s "Digg Mashup" demonstrates how end-to-end Silverlight development is possible. From the branded Silverlight install screen to some fresh design details this app...
Sometimes you have to wonder who is in charge of pressing the "publish" button...http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228633.aspx
While at TechEd 2008 I had a chance to sit down with Udi Dahan and the architects of Velocity. Udi tells a story of what types of problems you may quickly run into while trying to scal...
Each day we all use everyday things to accomplish everyday tasks. For programmers our everyday tools are arrays, loops and OOP constructs. We all use them, but are we all aware of the performance ...
Learn to create wildly different layouts and easily add third-party controls to your Dynamic Data websites. Introduction Welcome to the Dynamic Data Scorecard series which shows you h...
Listen to the Show!Adaptive Path’s Senior Interaction Designer Kim Lenox and Design Technologist Dan Harrelson share their experiences in how to think through the UX design process. Adaptive Path u...
On today’s show we chat with Devin Rader, Product Manager at Infragistics and co-author of Professional ASP.NET 3.5. Devin is responsible for the data source, user and server contr...
Listen to the show here! John Gossman, Microsoft Architect for WPF and Silverlight, discusses his experiences watching WPF mature into the powerful framework it is today. John tells us about the tr...
Get started with ASP.NET Dynamic Data with some practical advice. Listen to the podcastWatch the screen cast In this show you will learn how to: Start a dynamic data website fro...
Yesterday I published a post titled, Passing Arguments to a Dynamic Data Field Template from a UIHint Attribute. The purpose of that post is to show you how you can access the UIHint argument value...
Update: Make sure to also check out: Generic Access to ASP.NET Dynamic Data UIHint Attribute ValuesI’ve been working with Dynamic Data websites on and off for the last couple of weeks in order to p...
Craig Shoemaker talks with co-founder and president of Adaptive Path Jesse James Garrett about his experiences in creating the Elements of User Experience, the Visual Vocabulary and coining the ter...
Helping to connect the dots a little easier when building a Silverlight Deep Zoom applications, the Expression team has released a new version of the Deep Zoom Composer.Good has been done here :)
The saying, "the content isn’t what’s important at a conference – it’s the people" is approaching hallmark cliché status. The thing is with stereotypes, generalizations and clichés – they exist fo...
While at MIX I ran into Mr. Phil Haack, Program Manager on the ASP.NET team to talk about ASP.NET MVC. When interviewing people sometimes you have to ask the silly questions. I say silly questions ...
The web was a-buzz after MIX this year with the strong commitment the Olympic Games is making to Silverlight. The team demonstrated a stunning system that will perhaps for the first time make telev...
The Podder experience is about to get much more spicy! Josh Smith announced the Podder Skinning Competition this weekend. I've talked about Podder before and noted how I love the way it instantly ...
Craig Shoemaker takes you on a tour of the best ASP.NET MVC resources available today. Listen to the Show Here jQuery How have I missed jQuery all this time? I am really loving the...
Hi my name is Craig. It’s been a while, I know...Computer problems are really not a lot of fun. Right after I got back from my vacation my computer took a dive – sending my productivity into a tai...
Getting back into the swing of things after MIX08 has proven to be fun and productive. I have a number of podcasts that I hope you can find the time to check out. (It almost seems like we need to m...
Today is a landmark day. I am uploading the 50th episode of the Polymorphic Podcast all the while I get to announce the beginning of our new podcast series at Infragistics, pixel8!You're going to ...
There was a time when you might not exclaim loudly that you are a Microsoft developer. In light of the years gone by of DOJ hearings and reports of monopolistic practices - Microsoft hasn't always...
There is a new developer face off going on over at CodeSqueeze: Scott Bellware vs JP Boodhoo. Exercise your democratic responsibilities and vote now :)
So how, exactly, does one get a copy of an acquisition proposal from Steve Ballmer to the Board of Directors at Yahoo!?
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I have moved this blog over to a new account. Please update your aggregators to point to http://feeds.feedburner.com/PolymorphicPodcastBlog ...and you will automatically be updated with any future ...
I Quit With a Smile on My Face I recently quit my job for a much bigger and decidedly better opportunity. I am elated to announce that I have accepted a new position with Infragistics as a New Medi...
I Quit With a Smile on My Face I recently quit my job for a much bigger and decidedly better opportunity. I am elated to announce that I have accepted a new position with Infragistics as a New Medi...
Listen to the show here Craig Shoemaker sits down with Miguel Castro to follow up on the first show on Architecting for Extensibility. In the previous show, Miguel takes us through a number of the ...
Listen to the show here Craig Shoemaker sits down with Miguel Castro to follow up on the first show on Architecting for Extensibility. In the previous show, Miguel takes us through a number of the ...
Listen to the Show!Subversion Subversion, sometimes known as SVN, is an open source version control system. Subversion allows users to keep track of changes made over time to any t...
Listen to the Show!Subversion Subversion, sometimes known as SVN, is an open source version control system. Subversion allows users to keep track of changes made over time to any t...
For those of you who are digging into Visual Studio 2008, check out Wally's blog series he's started. He calls it "My Life with Visual Studio 2008". Check it out!
For those of you who are digging into Visual Studio 2008, check out Wally's blog series he's started. He calls it "My Life with Visual Studio 2008". Check it out!
The video and code for download is now posted at http://polymorphicpodcast.com/shows/webnavigator/.Learn an object oriented way to encapsulate the location of your web pages, shielding the physical...
The video and code for download is now posted at http://polymorphicpodcast.com/shows/webnavigator/.Learn an object oriented way to encapsulate the location of your web pages, shielding the physical...
Listen to the show Watch the video Download the code Problem: You and Joe are working on a sizable web application. Nasty-Coder Joe, who is on another team, creates a new page ...
Listen to the show Watch the video Download the code Problem: You and Joe are working on a sizable web application. Nasty-Coder Joe, who is on another team, creates a new page ...
I’ve had some questions on the Model View Presenter series I produced recently building up in my inbox, so I thought I would make this post an opportunity to answer the questions. In one of your r...
I’ve had some questions on the Model View Presenter series I produced recently building up in my inbox, so I thought I would make this post an opportunity to answer the questions. In one of your r...
Have you ever wanted to add a sub header row in the middle of a series of rows in a GridView or Repeater? The easiest way I found was to add a literal control to build the HTML you need for the hea...
Have you ever wanted to add a sub header row in the middle of a series of rows in a GridView or Repeater? The easiest way I found was to add a literal control to build the HTML you need for the hea...
The Design Patterns Bootcamp : Model View * Patterns series is now complete!The series features two audio pieces and five instructional videos. The audio portions take care of introducing the conce...
The Design Patterns Bootcamp : Model View * Patterns series is now complete!The series features two audio pieces and five instructional videos. The audio portions take care of introducing the conce...
Check out the latest release in the video releases of the Design Patterns Bootcamp Series: Model View * Patterns. This video will show you how to report messages back to users in a web application...
Check out the latest release in the video releases of the Design Patterns Bootcamp Series: Model View * Patterns. This video will show you how to report messages back to users in a web application...
Check out the latest release in the video releases of the Design Patterns Bootcamp Series: Model View * Patterns. This video will show you how to take an existing web application written with MVP...
Check out the latest release in the video releases of the Design Patterns Bootcamp Series: Model View * Patterns. This video will show you how to take an existing web application written with MVP...
Check out the latest release in the video releases of the Design Patterns Bootcamp Series: Model View * Patterns. This video will show you how to implement a web application using the Model View ...
Check out the latest release in the video releases of the Design Patterns Bootcamp Series: Model View * Patterns. This video will show you how to implement a web application using the Model View ...
Every once in a while something happens that is really special. When you maintain a blog, podcast or a newsletter list - as much as a labor of love as it may be - at the end of the day you want peo...
Every once in a while something happens that is really special. When you maintain a blog, podcast or a newsletter list - as much as a labor of love as it may be - at the end of the day you want peo...
Design Patterns Bootcamp: Model View * Patterns Listen to the Show!Thanks to Dave Bost for the intro! What is the Purpose of These Patterns? Put code in its proper placeWay to provide clean reus...
Design Patterns Bootcamp: Model View * Patterns Listen to the Show!Thanks to Dave Bost for the intro! What is the Purpose of These Patterns? Put code in its proper placeWay to provide clean reus...
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