Brennan’s Blog

One of my favorite writers for ASP.NET, Dino Esposito, has finished his book on ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions. He announced it on his blog. It was nearly ready to be published just as the name was changed from the Atlas codename to the final production name so the book cover and contents may still reference Atlas in a few places. The content should still be very helpful. Esposito has written such great documentation for ASP.NET the past few years. I just wish I knew how he has been able to keep up with the latest changes so quickly.

I originally came across Dino Esposito's writing with A Crash Course on ASP.NET Control Development: Building Composite Controls. It is something every ASP.NET developer should read.

Identity management has been coming into vogue lately. The push is going towards distributed single sign-on and I believe this trend is largely due to the rise of web services, AJAX and the real world application of mashups. And as existing web powerhouses like Yahoo! have acquired other web properties, such as Flickr.com there has been a real need to integrate the identity systems.

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I just came across Bindows. It does so much more than I have seen with other AJAX frameworks. For starters, it can produce a full application which looks exactly like a rich desktop application with the Windows XP theme. And with the included theme support you can change the theme to look like any platform. Of course it also has AJAX functionality, but that seems like a given when you consider everything else it does. Try out the demo. You will be impressed.