Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team

Hey, I am shifting teams at Microsoft! A little more than a year ago, I started working at Microsoft on the www.ASP.net community team creating ASP.NET MVC content. Over the past year, I’ve been doing things like speaking at a lot of conferences (PDC, Tech-Ed Emea, Tech-Ed India, MIX, ASP.NET Connections), writing a lot of tutorials and recording a lot of videos, and finishing a book. It has been an intense experience.clip_image001

Next week, I am officially joining the ASP.NET team as a feature PM with a focus on ASP.NET AJAX. I’m going to be working on the Microsoft AJAX Framework and the AJAX Control Toolkit. I get to write specs!

I’m really excited about Ajax. Anyone who has read my latest ASP.NET Unleashed book or who has heard me speak at any conference over the last 4 years knows that I am an Ajax fanatic. There is some really exciting stuff that we are working on for the next version of ASP.NET AJAX. And, I am really excited to work with the other members of the ASP.NET team – Boris Rivers-Moore, Simon Calvert, Scott Hunter, Stefan Schackow, Scott Galloway, Phil Haack.

I do need to change the title of my blog. I’m still going to write on ASP.NET MVC, but I’m going to start writing much more about Ajax.

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posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 9:10 PM | Filed Under [ AJAX ]

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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by farrio
on 6/15/2009 9:24 PM

congratulations! looking forward to read more posts about ajax :)
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Dave Ward
on 6/15/2009 9:55 PM

When I saw you using Firefox/bug instead of IE at MIX, I knew I would probably enjoy the rest of the talk. Nice to see you joining the ASP.NET team!
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Codie
on 6/15/2009 11:38 PM

Hey that cool your going to be making AJAX posts, but will you be making ajax posts with web forms or MVC?
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Dave
on 6/15/2009 11:46 PM

Well, ajax can be of good use, just like Flash. Both in most cases ajax is used in a wrong way.

You can present a product list by using ajax. It looks fancy and it might be a bit faster. But most people forget about spiders. Spiders don't do javascript and can therefor not run the ajax methodes needed to get a product list.

For google (and MSN/Live/Bing search probably either) you can provide a sitemap and have a low-tech version of your product listing- and details pages.

But what about the folks that are running extensions/add-ons like NoScript? They cannot properly visit your website.

So, the real trick is to make a normal site and use for instance jQuery to override some buttons and links (like paging).

But thats just my two (euro) cents.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Alex
on 6/15/2009 11:49 PM

Looking forward to see your work in action.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by folorunso
on 6/16/2009 1:01 AM

Great! But we would like to know who is replacing you for ASP.NET MVC bloggings.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Michael Schwarz
on 6/16/2009 1:39 AM

Congrats... ;)

There are currently big moves at Microsoft (i.e. .NET MF), looking forward to see me .NET products.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Sandeep Aparajit
on 6/16/2009 2:36 AM

Congrats!
Looking forward to read some interesting articles on Ajax :)
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Posted by Gabriel Porras
on 6/16/2009 2:46 AM

Congratulations St.!
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Mukhtar
on 6/16/2009 3:25 AM

Hi Stephen,

This is great! From the materials I've seen of MVC - I'm really not a fan of it. It's just another way of doing everything .Net does.

As browsers become ever more powerful, you'll want as much work done on the client as possible. AJAX definitely is one of the ways to go about this, and by creating as much controls as possible it will allow an enhanced user experience.

There's loads of frameworks out there: SPRY, DOJO, Mootoo e.t.c. If a community could be formulated to have everyone come together and collaborate, this would be the utopian way of advancing the technology.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Brian
on 6/16/2009 4:00 AM

First thing to do. Introduce the term "Unobtrusive Javascript" to ajax folks. Nobody in microsoft seems to have heard of it despite the world and it's mother embracing it wholeheartedly. I know you can bring them round.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Rafael Noronha
on 6/16/2009 4:10 AM

Seems great.

You did a great contribution for the community on Asp Net MVC.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Chris Bower
on 6/16/2009 4:32 AM

Hi stephen great news about joining the Ajax team, do you think that there will be a push for using the mvc pattern with the Ajax Client library?
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Suprotim Agarwal
on 6/16/2009 4:44 AM

Kudos on joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature team! Does that explain your 'being the first' to announce the release of new ASP.NET AJAX controls during your tech.ed trip to Hyderabad?
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Yash
on 6/16/2009 6:44 AM

Good, I am sure you will do a great job over there!!!!

Thanks for blog entires , they are really very informative..

Thanks,
Yash
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Willie
on 6/16/2009 9:27 AM

Congratulation Stephen in your new assignment. I am looking forward to your ASP.NET AJAX blog and more tutorials which greatly helps the developer community.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Bertrand Le Roy
on 6/16/2009 11:28 AM

@Mukhtar: such a community exists: http://www.openajax.org. Microsoft is a member.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Gonzalo Pérez C.
on 6/16/2009 12:37 PM

Congrats from Chile :)
go go go!
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by developer
on 6/16/2009 1:17 PM

does this mean MVC dead?
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by bman
on 6/16/2009 4:39 PM

Who is going to be the MVC guru then??
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Jack
on 6/16/2009 6:34 PM

Congratulations! ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team is a cool team, and lead our developers to cool features and UX.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Senthil Kumar B
on 6/16/2009 9:42 PM

Congrats
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Thanigainathan.S
on 6/16/2009 10:42 PM

All the best for your future endeavours. Will read your blog.

Thanks,
Thani
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Mukhtar
on 6/17/2009 1:36 AM

@Bertand: Thanks! I had no idea how far the standardisation of the technology had become. AJAX definitely is the way to go and now that Stephen has 'joined the club' I'm sure there's going to be even greater developments soon.

I liked the posts on your site as well :)
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Stephen.Walther
on 6/17/2009 5:44 AM

@bman -- There is a new MVC guru coming to the ASP.NET community team -- but I'll let that be a surprise.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Srikanth Bhakthan
on 6/17/2009 7:17 AM

Congratulations! All the best with your new role.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Elijah Manor
on 6/18/2009 10:19 AM

So I guess you are going to update the banner image on top to be "Stephen Walther on ASP.NET AJAX" instead of MVC :)

Thanks for all your previous posts on MVC. You helped me get up to speed quickly when I first picked up MVC.

Congrats on your move to the AJAX team!
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by rickj
on 6/19/2009 9:50 PM

When is your MVC Unleashed book comming out is it going to be as usefull as ASP.NET Unleashed
I can tak any on of your examples and tweek it around to work on my projects I haven't quite read it from front to back yet but allmost Great Piece of work and I'm looking forward to MVC Unleashed Thanks and I'm glad your going into Ajax because ther are a number of things that could be made clearer
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Chris Moseley
on 6/20/2009 3:52 AM

Congratulations on the new role, I hope you enjoy it. You've dome some great work surrounding MVC so I'm looking forward to you bringing the same enthusiasm into ASP.NET AJAX.

Personally, what I'd like to see from ASP.Net AJAX in the future is a greater focus on performance and... lightweightness (I realise that isn't a word :)). I think, currently, ASP.Net AJAX shows lots of potential but is a little bloated in some areas. As performance is hugely important in my role, I tend to favour other js frameworks/libraries such as jquery. But then, of course, I lose the close coupling between my server-side code and my client-side code. I was very pleased to hear about the colaboration between between Microsoft and jquery. I hope that continues and I'd love to see the two libraries become even more closely integrated.

All the best.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team (Hi Mr.Stephen)
Posted by Venu M
on 6/21/2009 4:05 PM

Hi Mr. Stephen, How are you? I hope you are fine, I'm the one who met you on the first day of Microsoft TECH Ed.'09 india while you were having some nice coffee during mornin brek fast hr, Really had a nice chat with u and attended your seminar, Really you are amazing techy geek, I was impressed by your seminar on ASP.NET 4.0 & MVC, Had a great experience with you, Even i posted both of our pics which were captured during morning hr.

Please visit the below link:
Pics url: www.venumanthena.com/...ft%20teched%20attendee.php

I'm expecting your feedback on my personal site
My personal site URL: http://www.venumanthena.com

Can i have your contact e-mail address, plz
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Danny
on 6/21/2009 7:22 PM

Mr. Walther,

Best of luck in your new assignment.
Will you still be working for the GU ?

Your MVC tips, how-to videos and upcoming MVC
Unleashed book are much appreciated.

Thanks
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Sivagurunathan
on 6/22/2009 1:22 AM

Best of luck Walther.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Jeff Ancel
on 6/22/2009 5:44 AM

Congrats to you Stephen. Is there a date on the MVC Unleashed book?
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Chris
on 6/22/2009 8:55 AM

Looking forward to seeing your work!
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Ray
on 6/23/2009 1:27 PM

Hi Stephen,

Tried to contact you, but contact form on this site does not work.

Thanks,
Ray.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Waqas
on 6/24/2009 12:44 AM

best of luck
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by MaYHeM
on 6/24/2009 9:26 AM

I just LOVE how developers come out of the wood works with whatever they are most interested in, claiming the world to have wholeheartedly embraced such and such.

Assumptions are the plague on innovation.
I'm looking at you Brian...
http://www.systemdotweb.com/

AND

While you're rightly oriented Green Williams, you're a smacktard commentator. Take that digit and place it squarely...
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by nuwan
on 6/24/2009 8:41 PM

Looking forward for better.... AJAX enables web
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Prasad
on 6/26/2009 2:01 AM

Looking forward to some great features Mr.PM!
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by internet blackjack
on 6/27/2009 1:02 AM

Nice summary, even if they included all you ask I bet you will not turn your back on jQuery, jq will always be 5 steps ahead even if MS ploughed phil haacked and hansleman onto the project. I wish they would just embrace and use jQuery instead of trying to copy it, why re-invent the wheel just seems such a waste of time and effort, must be deflating coming into work to try and replicate jQuery but know your not going to do it as well!
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by .net development
on 6/28/2009 10:49 PM

Congratulations Stephen. Looking forward to see your great posts.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by BizTalk developer
on 7/3/2009 10:01 PM

Great Stephen! I think your excitement gives me a boost to learn more about AJAX from you.
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Posted by .net application development
on 7/3/2009 10:09 PM

Congrats. I am waiting to see your excellent post.
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Posted by ibrahim tatlıses dinle
on 7/6/2009 10:09 AM

Congratulations!..it is veryo nice
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Bala
on 7/6/2009 11:45 PM

Congrats stephen,
Would like to see ur post on Ajax.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by wrist corsage
on 7/7/2009 2:46 AM

HI stephen, Nice job! But i would like to know who is responsible to replace you from microsoft to ASP.NET MVC bloggings?
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Posted by seo india
on 7/10/2009 2:37 AM

Congratulations! All the best.
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Posted by seo
on 7/10/2009 3:02 AM

Congratulations!..it is veryo nice
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Posted by seotips
on 7/10/2009 3:04 AM

Congrats!
Looking forward to read some interesting articles on Ajax :)
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Posted by linkexchnage
on 7/10/2009 3:07 AM

Great post.
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on 7/10/2009 3:11 AM

Thanks for the links
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on 7/10/2009 3:16 AM

great work
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on 7/10/2009 3:30 AM

Thanks for sharing links.
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on 7/10/2009 3:32 AM

Nice to see the ongoing.
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on 7/10/2009 3:32 AM

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on 7/10/2009 3:33 AM

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on 7/10/2009 3:44 AM

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on 7/10/2009 3:45 AM

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on 7/10/2009 3:46 AM

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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by orchid corsage
on 7/10/2009 10:44 PM

you have been doing things like speaking at a lot of conferences (PDC, Tech-Ed Emea, Tech-Ed India, MIX, ASP.NET Connections) seem like good but unfortunately someone replace you from microsoft to ASP.NET MVC bloggings. try your best!
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Kasinos im Internet
on 7/11/2009 4:34 AM

Hey, I am shifting teams at Microsoft! A little more than a year ago, I started working at Microsoft on the www.ASP.net community team creating ASP.NET MVC content. Over the past year, I’ve been doing things like speaking at a lot of conferences (PDC, Tech-Ed Emea, Tech-Ed India, MIX, ASP.NET Connections), writing a lot of tutorials and recording a lot of videos, and finishing a book. It has been an intense experience.
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Posted by prom corsage
on 7/18/2009 8:11 AM

I wish they would just embrace and use jQuery instead of trying to copy it, why re-invent the wheel just seems such a waste of time and effort, must be deflating coming into work to try and replicate jQuery but know your not going to do it as well!
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Asif Ashraf
on 7/22/2009 9:11 AM

Congraaaaaaaats!!!
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Steve Smith
on 7/23/2009 1:51 PM

Congrats, Stephen. Looking forward to more great stuff from your and the team!
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Posted by Diwakar
on 7/25/2009 10:57 PM

hi.. i m diwakar a student completed my bca and also going for mca. now a days i m free and wanted to learn asp.net but i haven't any idea of asp,i haven't any latest version of book also.. and not any faculty to guide me, sp i wanted to the latest version of asp in c# book for designing and programming.so if it is possible then please help me....
thank you
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Posted by Website Design Australia
on 7/30/2009 3:54 AM

Thanks , nice explanation.
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# re: Joining the ASP.NET AJAX Feature Team
Posted by Bhupendra Goswami
on 7/31/2009 4:58 AM

Congrats, Stephen.

Looking forward to more great stuff from your and the team!
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Posted by education
on 8/14/2009 5:46 AM

Congratulations Stephen.
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Posted by will
on 8/15/2009 11:17 AM

Ajax the best
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on 8/21/2009 1:12 AM

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on 8/29/2009 5:10 PM

i wanted to the latest version of asp in c# book for designing and programming.so if it is possible then please help me....
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Posted by Term papers
on 9/22/2009 1:06 AM

I must admit, very useful tips and instructions.
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Posted by chlamydien
on 10/1/2009 3:51 AM

I think As browsers become ever more powerful, you'll want as much work done on the client as possible. AJAX definitely is one of the ways to go about this, and by creating as much controls as possible it will allow an enhanced user experience.
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on 10/10/2009 3:02 AM

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