Thank you to everyone who came to my talks at Tech-ed India! It was great meeting so many developers in India (I finally got to meet many people who I have been reading their blogs for years). I’ve had several people request the slides and sample files from the talk so I am posting them here. ASP.NET 4 Talk – The slides and sample files. MVC Talk – The slides. The Contact Manager sample application is located at http://www.ASP.net/mvc/learn. AJAX 4.0 Talk – The slides and sample files.  

I’ve been investigating different unit testing frameworks for JavaScript lately and I stumbled onto FireUnit. FireUnit is a unit testing framework created by John Resig (of well-deserved jQuery fame) and Jan Odvarko. In this blog entry, I provide a brief overview of the FireUnit testing framework. In particular, I explain how you can use FireUnit to unit test JavaScript code. Installing FireUnit FireUnit is implemented as a FireFox extension. This is both bad and good. First, the bad news. You cannot use FireUnit with Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, or any other browser than Mozilla Firefox. Here’s the good news. FireUnit extends Firefox with...

Before my trip to India, I bought an HP Mini 2140 netbook. It is a beautiful machine. It weighs only  4 pounds. It has a 1024x576 resolution screen (normal width but short height). It has almost a full sized keyboard. My favorite feature is that, theoretically, it has a 6 cell battery that can last 8 hours – a mind-boggling long amount of time. The mini came with Windows XP pre-installed. That wouldn’t do. So, I immediately downloaded the release candidate of Windows 7 and installed it on the netbook. The mini does not have a DVD or CD drive. I...

I’ll be in India all next week giving 3 talks at Microsoft Tech-ed in Hyderabad. This is my first trip to India. I have no idea what to expect. I’ll be giving the following three talks: Welcome to ASP.NET 4.0 – Developing Next Gen Web Applications Developing MVC Based Web Apps using ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 I get to talk about all of the new innovations coming with the next version of ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET AJAX (some exciting new stuff to talk about there). And, I get to do...