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Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 4 - Hold on, aren't you forgetting some things?)

Maybe it's be a good idea for me to list the previous parts in each of these posts for easy reference · Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 1) · Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 2 - Components) · Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 3 - Properties and Events) So just before we get ahead of ourselves and build or fresh new VEMapControl into a server control, a couple of things (well three actually): · How do I access my component after it's been created? · Can I expose my own events on my component? · What about those property change notifications you mentioned? How do I access my component after it's been created? Well that depends on what type of component it is but you're either going to use Sys.Application.findComponent() (shortcut $find()) or Sys.UI. [lien] [EN]

Internal Microsoft IE 8 build passes the Acid standards test

A week after Opera Software filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft that focused, in part, on Microsoft’s falure to make Internet Explorer (IE) standards-compliant, Microsoft has gone on record stating IE 8 will include support for key Web standards. Microsoft verified last week that an internal test build of IE 8 passed the Acid2 Browser Test, according to Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of IE Development. Hachamovitch noted the milestone in a blog post to the IE Team blog on December 19. Microsoft also posted a video to its Channel 9 Web site explaining the finer points for developers interested in the Acid2 details. Acid2 is a test page, maintained by the independent Web Standards Project group, that was written to help browser vendors ensure support for Web standards in their products. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft ‘officially’ announces XP SP3 public test build

Even though Microsoft began pushing out a public test build of Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 the week of December 10, it wasn’t until December 18 that the company would acknowledge officially the existence of that build. On the 18th, Microsoft made the XP SP 3 Release Candidate (RC) build available for download from the Microsoft Download site. Microsoft allowed the same, near-final build to be released last week on several public file sharing sites. When I asked Microsoft December 11 whether the public RC of XP SP3 was available, the company declined to comment. Yesterday, Microsoft sent me the following statement: “Today, Windows XP SP3 RC was made available to the public via the Microsoft Download Center. [lien] [EN]

Apple VS Microsoft : diff??rence d’interface

Vous pouvez traduire l’habituel “What you see is what you get” par “What you see is what the fuck” Je pense que les d??veloppeurs/webmasters approuveront ?? 200% Article venant de : Flepi.net Apple VS Microsoft : diff??rence d’interface Share This [lien] [EN]

On Consistencey & Team Building

One term that is frequently used during the Knicks telecast is consistency. Mike Breen often questions why the Knicks aren’t more consistent. In Breen’s mind, New York’s main problem is their inability to “get the job done night in & night out.” However from what I’ve seen, New York has been very consistent. In their first 16 games, they’ve only held their opponent under the league shooting average (49.1% eFG) 3 times. And they’ve only managed to be over that mark 6 times on offense. They own the league’s second worst defense (112.3 pts/100 poss), and to accomplish that dubious goal you have to be remarkably consistent. Breen’s words make it seem as if the Knicks have the ability to be better, but some inexplicable force keeps them from jelling in a way as to produce wins. [lien] [EN]

Opera: Acid or no, its Microsoft antitrust complaint goes forward

Now that Microsoft has passed the Acid2 Browser test, is Opera Software satisfied? If dropping its antitrust complaint filed last week with the European Commission is the measure, the answer is no. I asked Opera whether Microsoft’s announcement on December 19 that an internal Internet Explorer 8 build has passed the Acid2 test meant a change in its complaint. Opera asked the European courts to require Microsoft to change its practice of bundling IE with Windows, as well as to compel Microsoft to make IE comply with accepted Web standards. An Opera spokesman delivered the company’s response: “We congratulate Microsoft on the screenshots showing IE8 passing the ACID2 test. We appreciate the effort of Microsoft’s developers in this achievement. [lien] [EN]

What’s on Microsoft’s agenda for 2008?

It’s the end of the year, which means it’s pundit prognostication time again. Here are my 10 predictions about what I think we’ll see in Microsoft land in 2008. (I could have done a lot more than 10, given I’m finishing up a book on Microsoft’s future, Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era. If you want more, you’ll have to wait until this spring.) For this Top 10 list, I didn’t go for the low-hanging fruit and predict that Service Pack 3 will give Windows XP a new lease on life… or that the Internet Explorer (IE) team will field a first test build of IE 8. Too easy! Instead, I’m sticking my neck out with 10 less obvious predictions for the new year, ranging from Beta 1 of Office 14, to a surprise, big. [lien] [EN]

As Microsoft knows, there’s more than one way to disrupt a market

Financial-analyst-turned-Web-pundit Henry Blodget posted an explainer this weekend on what “disruption” really means and why Google and other Web-based office suites are on ther verge of disrupting Microsoft in a major way. From Blodget’s post, entitled “Microsoft in Denial: Google Threat is Classic Disruption“: “Disruptive technologies do not destroy existing market leaders overnight. They do not get adopted by the entire market at the same time. They do not initially seem to be ‘better’ products (in fact, in the early going, they are often distinctly “worse.”) They are not initially a viable option for mainstream users. They do not win head-to-head feature tests. Initially, they do not even seem to be a threat.” Google Apps and other Web-based office suites sure fill that bill. [lien] [EN]

What does Microsoft’s IPTV reorg have to do with ‘Fiji’?

I’ve been thinking about Microsoft’s quiet reorg, via which the company unified the IPTV, Media Center and HD DVD initiatives into a single organization, known as the Microsoft Connected TV business group. Just munging these three teams together doesn’t necessarily mean a cohesive set of Microsoft TV products and services will suddenly emerge. As Microsoft Platform Strategy Advisor Harry Mower blogged: “This is a step in the right direction as long as we also begin to consolidate the underlying platforms and developer technologies. Today, if you want to build a media experiences that spans devices, you are forced to use a hodgepodge of languages, tools and standards. Until we (Microsoft) realize that we need to deliver one unified platform for multimedia development and consumption. [lien] [EN]

DevWeek Session - Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls

Thanks to everyone who came along yesterday. I was concerned that I may end up talking to an empty room as I was up against Jeff Prosise's Silverlight 2 session. In the end I needn't have worried as there was a good crowd of people there eager to hear about ASP.NET AJAX controls. Phew. A few people asked for my demos so I've published both the slide deck and the demos. I should mention that the website is optimised for display at 1024x768 (the resolution we use for projecting). In other words, it will look odd (terrible) at higher resolutions as the background image is 1024x768. If it's really upsetting you, just delete/rename Background.jpg in the Images folder or change the background rule for the body element in Images/Default.css by removing the background-image. I intend to distill some of that down and write a few blog posts about the basics of building and using components. [lien] [EN]

Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Pt 3 - Properties and Events)

Let's take a quick look at the control I created for the launch event. By adding an instance of my VEMapControl to my page thus: I get an image (Image1.png) on my page which, when I mouseover, changes to show a Virtual Earth map (centred at 52.0, -1.0 in this case) like this: So I need to create a control that firstly has some properties I can set (ImageUrl, Lat and Lon) and also registers an interest in a DOM event (mouseover) to switch between image and map. Clearly the control is associated with UI elements so I need to choose between either a behavior or a control. In this case, I plan to turn this into a standalone server control so Sys.UI.Control is the right choice. If I was building a control extender (the AJAX control toolkit has lots of examples) that I can "attach". [lien] [EN]

Pipe Dream 2010 Update - Nets Won’t Be In Brooklyn in 2010

Due to a recent court decision, the earliest the Nets can be in Brooklyn will be 2011. That’s assuming Bruce Ratner can raise the money to build the Atlantic Yards development period, which, due to the current credit crisis, is far from a sure bet. [lien] [EN]

Audio text editor update, or postdate, or something

In July, I blogged an idea for a system that would make it much easier to do quick an dirty edits of podcasts. The basic idea was that the software would convert the speech to text and then let you edit the text, using the revised text (with hidden time-codes) to cut and paste the original recording. I thought it was a good idea. So did Ryan Shaw and Dan Perkel … three years ago. I just got an email from Ryan (responding to my talking about this idea in the issue of my newsletter I just sent out) saying that he and Dan put together a prototype for a class at Berkeley. He points us to a brief description, some slides, and a prototype that he says is “probably broken.” The description describes a different, and interesting, facet of the project, but, Ryan writes in his email. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft and Samba finally come to terms over Windows protocols

After years of public disagreement over ensuring interoperability between their respective software, Microsoft and Samba have come to terms. And not surprisingly, each vendor is offering quite a different spin on the licensing agreement they unveiled on December 20. It took an intermediary, the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF) — a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center — to hand off the Microsoft protocol documentation that Samba said it needed to make its Unix/Linux file/print sharing products work properly with Windows. According to a press release issued December 20, Samba is paying Microsoft a one-time sum of 10,000 Euros, after which the PFIF will make available to the Samba Team, under non-disclosure, “the documentation needed for implementation of all of the workgroup server protocols covered by the European Union decision. [lien] [EN]