Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
I’ve been seeing some people asking about how to write their own helpers in ASP.NET Web Pages. In this post I'll go over how to build your own helpers in the beta and also review how you will be able to build helpers more easily in the next version.
Monday, April 19, 2010
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)