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Phil Haack has the great news that the installer is now available on CodePlex...

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As many of you know, my path through NGWS/.NET since 1999 has taken a different path than many. While many (Most?) in the .NET community have focused on ASP.NET and Web Development, I have been a "back-end" guy. Despite dabbling in what was then ASP+ in 1999, and working extensively with ASP...

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So, I was in Las Vegas....for 2 hours last night when I went "backwards" from Denver to Los Vegas to Philly on the redeye. Meanwhile, the major announcements happened today at MIX and now I can release some information that I had been told to hold off on as well as able to talk on some of the...

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Daniel Cazzulino says " AJAX is OLD. It's been around for a decade . It's based on the techniques that exist almost since the web exploded: HTML, Javascript. Both have served the Web well. Both are bound to die. Seriously: do you really want to develop rich apps using loads of javascript, XML and...

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Paul Wilson on the ATLAS/AJAX nonsense (as well as Live) , " Don't get me wrong, I like Ajax, when its used correctly and within reason -- of course I also liked it back in 1999 before it was called Ajax. I also like some of the Ajax implementations from what I've seen of them, but that's where...

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