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Old Microsoft commercials with Bill & Steve:

Some other funny videos are on Microsoft Watch – or look at YouTube

The ASP.NET Team (see at Scotts Blog) released the 3. Preview of the MVC Framework:

• Setup MSI Download
• Sourcecode @ Codeplex

This release contains improvments of the April Code Release :

• Control Action Methods & ActionResults, useful for…
• AJAX: JsonResult
• Streaming Data: ContentResult
• Web: HttpRedirect / RedirectToAction/Route
• HTML Helper
• URL Routing & Mapping (this dll is part of the .NET 3.5 SP1 and can be used in WebForms and MVC)

Unfortunatly there are no  Sub-Controllers, a nicer AJAX integration, Authentication / Authorization (a nicer integration), Components – these features will be released in Preview 4 (or 5 )

For more information look at Scotts post…

If you are intrested in Gamedeveloping (or nice 3D anmations) you should take a look at the new CTP of the XNA Game Studio:

- Visual Studio 2008 Support (Express/Stand/Prof/…)
- .NET 3.5 Support

Here is the complete announcement from Microsoft and the download link.

TDD, Unit-Tests & XNA \o/

The ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC play (today) not very well together, thats why I searched another Javascript/Ajax Framework – jQuery seems to be very cool.

This blogpost is just a summary of my previous links on this blog.

Are there other good frameworks?

I found a very good post from Danny Douglass about these frameworks: jQuery, YUI, Prototype, Dojo, MooTools, Ext JS, and Script.aculo.us. A nice summary can you see here.

jQuery examples und tutorials?

From noupe.com:

• 51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples
• 50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1

Drag`n`Drop support:

• jQuery.ui Sortable

Look at the examples at noupe.com – there are very great examples with source code. Unfortunatly I didn´t found any up-to-date-offline documentation – only a version 1.1.4 documentation pdf.

Everyone needs Plugins… jQuery has some really cool plugins:

From noupe.com:

• 45+ Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins
• 37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins

VS 2008 / ASP.NET Integration:

• (Better) JQuery IntelliSense in VS2008
• jQuery AJAX calls to a WCF REST Service
• jQuery for ASP.NET MVC preview 2

Please let me know if you know any other good jQuery ressource