Sam Gentile's Blog

ASP.NET MVC/ASP.NET AJAX

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 – Phil Haack announces the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work done in Preview 1 released two months ago. Some of the new cool features include Client-Side Validation, which includes jQuery validation library to provide client-side validation based on the model’s validation metadata, Areas, Model Validation Providers, and Metadata Providers.
• Ajax Control Toolkit: new controls, bug fixes – Betrand announces the new release.

Windows Azure/Identity Management

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/1/2009+ – The regular excellent series continues
• Connecting to SQL Azure with SQL Server Management Studio – Brian documents what he went through for the benefit of others that may have issues
• It’s official: ADFS 2.0 passes Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 Tests with IBM, SAP, Novell, PING, Entrust – With that short title, I bet you can’t guess what this post is about :) Seriously, this is a big issue/win with ADFS 2/Geneva Server being SAML 2.0 compliant with all the major Identity Management solutions

LINQ/Entity Framework

• LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 9/28/2009+ – Roger does for LINQ and EF what he does for Azure