Erik Porter's Blog

I’m sure you’ve all heard today about the beta release of IE 9.  It’s looking pretty good!  Did you see that you can integrate with the Windows Jump List now?  Neato!  Neowin has a write up on the meta tags you need to have to integrate with Windows.  Over lunch I wrote a quick helper in ASP.NET Web Pages (install WebMatrix via WebPI here) that you can just drop into your App_Code folder… Code Snippet using System; using System.Web; using System.Web.Mvc; using Microsoft.WebPages.Helpers; public static class Windows { public static IHtmlString JumpListTask(string name, string actionUrl, string iconUrl) { HttpContext httpContext

Today is my first day as a PM (Program Manager) on the ASP.NET team.  If you’ve been following any of the projects I’ve worked on at Microsoft like Oxite or Orchard, you may remember that I just joined the Orchard team as an SDE in November.  Why the fast move?  I’ve actually been interested in switching to the PM role for a couple years now, and the right opportunity happened to come up last week.  The fun part is, I’m still on the ASP.NET team, just in a completely different role.  It happened pretty fast.  On my birthday (April 9th)

Today our team discussed plugins and the extensibility points that should be exposed to Oxite plugin developers in the near future. I've shared the initial list we've come up with and would love to get the community's feedback.

We’ve been hard at work over the last month working to refactor Oxite.  We received a lot of community feedback about how we organized the code in Oxite.  I don't want to go into too much detail, but want to be completely transparent (I’m from the Channel 9 team, would you expect anything less?) about how Oxite came to be.  Oxite was a side project by a couple of us that just thought it would be cool to release some of our code that was reusable, showed off the ability to control your markup 100% and was more than a