Peter Bromberg's UnBlog

"If I Dispose the Car, will my delegate references be garage collected?" -- newsgroup poster This provides new functionality to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET in 2008. The new features target MVC, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and dynamic data Supporting Test Driven Development - including a powerful and extensible MVC framework. Creating the best server for Rich Clients - including Ajax history support and Silverlight controls for ASP.NET. The Readme is here . The download of ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is here . I did some early work with the Entity Framework and liked what I saw. Don't you just love those little installer messages, "The installation is taking longer than expected . . ."? And More Cool Stuff A couple of other items you might be interested in (at least, that I am interested in): 1) The FeedSync API. Formerly Ray Ozzie's "Simple Sharing Extensions". The easiest way to get into this is to download and play with the codeplex s...

Is there such a thing as OverAJAXification? From the AJAX Sucks Department... Jeesh. Everybody and their brother is sticking AJAX into their "stuff" - whether it's appropriate or not. They just did it at Codeplex.com. The search facility was just fine. You'd click a "next" link and the page would postback and right away you would get to see the next page of results. Now, since they've supposedly "souped it up" with AJAX, what you get is a very long (sometimes 5 seconds or more) grey screen with an "updating" in-your-face graphic to look at, and then finally you get to see your next page of search results. To me, that's a lot more annoying and disruptive to the user experience than the slight flicker of a quick postback. But often, instead, you may just as well see the above Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager exception dialog, which does absolutely NOTHING to improve the user experience. Oh, and while I'm ranting, here's anot...