VS 2008 JavaScript support still not quite ready for writing rich web apps Ok, I have to vent a little here. I was really expecting Microsoft to step up the game for their JavaScript support in VS 2008 and unfortunately there are still some serious issues that prevent it from even getting close. These problems even exist after installing the hotfix rollup that came out last week. Let’s […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
IE Team Announces Milestone for IE8: Acid2 Tests Passed According to the IE Blog, IE8 officially passes the Acid2 tests now. You can see it in action over on Channel9 and hear more about IE8 in an interview with the IE team. From the sounds of it, you will need to opt into using the new rendering engine for backwards compatibility reasons. This will […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Microsoft Unleashes Volta Well, I knew there had to be a reason that we haven’t seen any real movement in the ASP.NET AJAX Futures realm for a while… say hello to Volta. Basically it’s Microsoft’s approach to using .NET to emit client side code (JavaScript). It shouldn’t be too big a surprise that Microsoft was working on this […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
No implementation of a Session-State Store Provider over Memcache out there yet? All my searching tells me that nobody out there has created a custom Session-State Store Provider for ASP.NET that sits on top of Memcache. Are people just hardcoding themselves to Memcache API directly rather than using the provider model? Or are most people just happy with ASP.NET’s out of the box state server? So sad […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Silverlight full screen video annoyance Whenever you choose to full screen a video in Silverlight it always plays the full screen video on your primary monitor. I would prefer it behave more like the majority of apps where it plays full screen on whatever monitor the host window is currently on. Unfortunately there’s no program on Microsoft Connect for Silverlight […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Microsoft rethinks Silverlight versioning scheme and plans to add more rich WPF features Well, in case you hadn’t already read today, Scott Guthrie has announced a few things about some upcoming beta releases. One of the betas talked about is the next version of Silverlight which used to be labeled as version 1.1. Microsoft has rethought this strategy and is instead going to call it 2.0. If you […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Vote on ASP.NET AJAX Web Service Exception Handling Bug I’ve reported a bug over on connect with the full details, but basically what it boils down to is that there’s no way to raise exception detail from ScriptMethods when ASP.NET custom error handling is enabled. What happens is that the RestHandler for ScriptMethods detects the custom error handling is enabled and literally throws out […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Ian Griffiths brings some clarity to Silverlight’s object model Ian just put an entry up on his blog called Silverlight Controls and Objects which aims to bring some clarity to the way the Silverlight control hooks into the HTML DOM and exposes its own features. A definite must read for anyone doing Silverlight development. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Safari on Windows In case you haven’t been following the Apple news flowing in from the WWDC, Apple has officially announced the public beta of Safari for Windows. Very interesting move and very bold performance claims where they claim beating IE by 2x and Mozilla/FireFox by 1.6x in their benchmarks. Unfortunately this means yet another browser to test on for […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Mimeo goes 24-bit PNG… IE6 put up a hell of a fight Ok, this is a long one, but worth the read if you enjoy the challenges of debugging and working around problems in code that you have absolutely no control over. It’s also a great read if you just hate IE and want to laugh at the brief bout of insanity it caused me. 🙂 First, a […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail