ASP.NET MVC

I've been meaning to post the following but only got to it just now. For those that have started playing around with the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP, you will have no doubt come across being unable to access controls declared in aspx from code behind. This is a heads up for those wanting to start dabbling in the MVC framework. When you create a new ASP.NET MVC web project, the pages don't have a designer.cs file. In a typical web project, this is still dandy since you can access the controls by ID...

Well, Microsoft Download Center Beta was launched recently. I only came across this today while I was uninstalling very early bits of ASP.NET MVC bits and went to download the new ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP. Their new download center is powered on Silverlight. Note that the Detailed Download pages are still typical ASP.NET pages. It's the Search results and the Quick Details Download views that are new (i.e. http://preview.microsoft.co... My early...

It's interesting to see the projects coming out of MSR. For example, back in 2005, MSR developed a C# Software Transactional Memory at: http://research.microsoft.c... The goal of the library was for devs to develop multithreaded programs with shared resources without using locks. In the October issue of MSDN Magazine, we're presented a brief look into Microsoft's Parallel FX Library. Article can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/m...