I know, I'm a little late on this announcement - but this has been one crazy summer!  Ok, we've officially only been in summer for less that a week, but considering the temp was 98 degrees when I got back from TechEd a couple of weeks ago, I say summer has been with us for a while.  Anyway, back to the release.. After another 4 month ...

In the past I wrote about what a Technical Evangelist is.  Well, the time has come for me to hire another Technical Evangelist to join the team at Infragistics.  This particular position will cover Europe, and work out of our London office.  If you're interested, send me an email!

OK I don't usually have that much to say but Infragistics has stuff going on these days and I just want to do my part to make sure you don't miss cool happenings. So MIX was great and the treasure hunt ROCKED - go ahead admit it - you're jealous of the folks who got in on the ground floor. Anyway - that was a really cool thing we did in ...

I can't believe Dev Connections is already over.  Perhaps it was the self induced memory loss that's saving me from remembering my horrible luck in the casino, but the show did seem to speed by.  All in all, I thought it was a good show - good, but not the best.  I'm not docking points for technical content, I thought that was all ...

I was part of the original development team for Infragistics' ASP.NET WebControls, about 7 years ago.  At the time, JavaScript was still considered a 'hack', and full form postbacks were regularly accepted as the norm.  Man am I glad times have changed.  With new technologies, improved browser support, and lessons learned, it was ...

Some exciting news - I will now be blogging on ASP.NET (http://weblogs.asp.net/tonylombardo)!  I've always wondered how to become one of the ASP.NET bloggers, and now I've done it.  Pretty cool, I must say.  So I'm still deciding whether I should mirror my content or split it between the two blogs.  I'm leaning towards a ...

For those who have been asking, NetAdvantage 2007 Volume 2 is finally here.  There's some really cool stuff in this release including a released version of our Gauge, a PDF/XPS writer, and an Excel Importer.  For all of you ASP.NET developers, you'll be happy to know that we did a bit of work on Search Engine Optimization ...

Dear Anthony Lombardo, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2007 Microsoft® MVP Award! That was the email that greeted me last Monday when I got to the office.  Now, I'm not a morning person...  I generally remain pretty grumpy all the way through Wednesday, but this news managed to put a pretty big ...

Thank you all for joining me in my Live From Redmond series with Joe Stagner.  As most of you are probably aware by now, at the end of each webcast we gave out a special link to enter a drawing for a free version of NetAdvantage for .NET.  Our winner for this last webcast was Theresa Lee - contgrats! If you didn't win, or didn't enter ...

For those of us who aren't lucky enough to be at Vegas, here's the latest news from the trenches.  ScottGu just announced the availability of Silverlight (with a go live license).  Go to www.microsoft.com/silverlight and you'll see a 1.0 Beta download, as well as a 1.1 alpha download (for us bleeding edge developers).  Last year ...

Congrats to Raman Tayal.  Raman just won a subscription to NetAdvantage for .NET.  His name was randomly chosen from a list of entrants following yesterday's Live From Redmond webcast.  There is one LFR webcast left, scheduled for next Wednesday - and we will be giving away another private link during the webcast for ...

If you joined us on yesterday's webcast, you were invited to enter a contents to win a fully licensed copy of NetAdvantage for .NET, which includes ASP.NET AND Windows Forms controls.  It has now been 24 hours which means it's time to pick a winner!  Congratulations Rich Burroughs!  For those who did not have a chance to enter ...

Tune in on Thursday, April 19, for the first of a series of webcasts hosted by Joe Stagner (Joe On .NET) and yours truly.  This first webcast will show how you can use the UpdatePanel and NetAdvantage for ASP.NET to take your UI to the next level.  To register for the event, follow this link  Live From Redmond: UpdatePanel and ...

If you're in the tri-state area looking for something to do tomorrow night, come and visit me at the Central Jersey .NET User Group meeting.  I'll be doing a talk on security, with a focus on AJAX.  Ed has posted information about it here.  You can also get information off of the main site - http://njdotnet.net/  Ed and I are ...

As many of you know, I've spent the last year as the Product Manager for NetAdvantage for ASP.NET here at Infragistics.  If you're not familliar with what a Product Manager is, don't feel bad, I had to google it myself originally.  With NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2007 Volume 1 now completed, so are my responsibilities as Product ...

Do you have a current NetAdvantage Subscription?  If so, you should have already received an invitation to the beta.  If you haven't received the email, double check your profile and verify that your email address is still accurate.  You also might want to check your spam folder, or be sure to add Infragistics as a safe ...

Great news!  Infragistics is AJAX RTM Ready!! I'm extremely happy to be able to announce that we have just made NetAdvantage for ASP.NET updates available, that will work with the Microsoft RTM announced today.  Already own NetAdvantage? - After installing Microsoft's AJAX Extensions (available here), you can patch your ...

The long awaited ASP.NET AJAX Release Candidate is finally here!  So the burning question is - what's new?!  I wish I could tell you that this RC is composed of only minor bug fixes, but that wouldn't be fun.  The most notable change was made to the extensions namespace.  Here's a blurb from the release notes - * The ASP.NET AJAX assembly DLL ...

Partial trust builds have been posted to the APTCA forum. These builds correspond to the latest hotfix made available on October 20, 2006.

Microsoft has officially released AJAX Extensions Beta 1.  Scott Gu has a great overview of the changes (change log) for the beta.  In particular there were changes made to the UpdatePanel that will affect just about every webcontrol out there.  In prior CTP versions of the UpdatePanel, there was a lot of crafty guess work required to make it work ...

Want to have more impact on the future of NetAdvantage™? This is your chance. We are currently looking for a Senior Developer to join our ASP.NET team. The lucky candidate will be working in our East Windsor location, Located just minutes away from Princeton NJ. If you're interested, send resume in Word format to jobs@infragistics.com, with ...

NetAdvantage 2006 Vol. 2 is now available for download! Also hopefully you've noticed some of the changes to the website. So What's new in NetAdvantage? Here's a quick list of features new to the ASP.NET controls. LoadOnDemand (AJAX-Enabled) WebTab AJAX-Enabled WebSchedule navigation and appointment editing AJAX-Enabled WebCombo ...

I am happy to announce that the NetAdvantage 2006 Volume 2 beta is now available for download! You can get the bits here if you have an active subscription. If you're contemplating whether you should download the beta, I urge you to check out the ''What's New'' info posted in the beta forums; which brings me to my next announcement! HTML based ...