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Bertrand Le Roy

Bertrand Le Roy, PhD, is a Program Manager in the ASP.NET team, specializing on Ajax. He represents Microsoft at the OpenAjax Alliance. He blogs about new and future features of ASP.NET, tips, tricks and samples for advanced and beginner ASP.NET developers and sometimes other random musings.

Tales from the Evil Empire | 21 Nov 2008 06:14

Building a neat edit in place behavior

Bertrand Le Roy writes "....For the purposes of my next post, I built a neat little edit in place behavior and I thought it deserved its own post. It does a pretty good job at showing how easy it is to build a clean behavior using ASP.NET Ajax. It’s always good to go back to..."
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Tales from the Evil Empire | 20 Nov 2008 20:42

Deep Zoom without Silverlight

Bertrand Le Roy writes "....In a move that I wouldn’t have bet a dollar on, Live Labs released a purely JavaScript Deep Zoom client. You read that right, what was so far one of the nice features only found in Silverlight is now available in an open web, standards-based..."
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Tales from the Evil Empire | 20 Nov 2008 06:55

One thing you didn’t know about ASP.NET unless you’re David Ebbo

Bertrand Le Roy writes "....David has an excellent post about a pretty cool ASP.NET feature that you almost certainly don’t know about. I had no idea for sure. Check it out. http://blogs.msdn.com/davidebb/archive/2008/11/19/a-hidden-gem-for-control-builder-writers.aspx..."
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Tales from the Evil Empire | 11 Nov 2008 23:35

Preview documentation for ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 available

Bertrand Le Roy writes "....We published some documentation for ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 Preview 3: http://quickstarts.asp.net/previews/ajax/templates/default.aspx..."
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Tales from the Evil Empire | 10 Nov 2008 07:59

The magic behind live bindings explained

Bertrand Le Roy writes "....Dave has a fantastic and very detailed post about our implementation of the Observer pattern in ASP.NET Ajax 4.0. This feature is what enables the live bindings to work. Check it out!..."
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Tales from the Evil Empire | 08 Nov 2008 05:56

Generating HTML from Silverlight

Bertrand Le Roy writes "....Martin has an interesting post on the technique he uses in his Silverlight chess board to generate HTML from a Silverlight application. The idea is quite interesting because he uses Silverlight for what it’s strong (vector graphics here) and HTML..."
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Tales from the Evil Empire | 08 Nov 2008 05:34

Visual Studio patched for better jQuery IntelliSense

Bertrand Le Roy writes "....Jeff King just announced the release of a patch for Visual Studio 2008 that enables the IDE to find the –vsdoc.js file without requiring the developer to reference it. To give some context, a documentation file (basically the same file as the..."
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Tales from the Evil Empire | 07 Nov 2008 00:37

Building a data driven application with ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 and ADO.NET Data Services

Bertrand Le Roy writes "....Jim Wang (one of the great QA people on the Ajax team) just started a blog, and his first post is a very detailed walk through building a data-driven application from scratch using ADO.NET Data Services and the new client templates in ASP.NET Ajax..."
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Tales from the Evil Empire | 03 Nov 2008 18:10

PDC 2008 ASP.NET AJAX Futures talk available online

Bertrand Le Roy writes "....The full 83 minutes of my PDC talk are available on the Channel 9 web site. You can watch the session online (using Silverlight) or download the video in a number of formats. Slides and source code for the demo are also available. Watch online:..."
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Tales from the Evil Empire | 28 Oct 2008 22:09

ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap talk available online

Bertrand Le Roy writes "....Scott Hunter’s talk on the ASP.NET 4.0 roadmap (in which I’m doing a 10 minute demo) is available from Channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC20/..."
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Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @scottgal For Ruby the pickaxe book is still the reference I believe. Would still go for Python though. Matter of taste I suppose. about 1 hours ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Deep Zoom without Silverlight? Yes we can: http://is.gd/8kRE about 9 hours ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @lazycoder Portal: best game ever. Already had the Orange Box but bought Still Alive anyways for the 14 new levels. Worth my money. about 11 hours ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Obama's use of complete sentences stirs controversy http://is.gd/81jW about 12 hours ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @ses5909 If you're referring to controls in the Toolkit, there's this: http://is.gd/8bSf 1 day ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @robconery My new minion will pay dearly for what he just did. 1 day ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @haacked There are some mitigations of course but that's hard to express in 160 chars... :) 3 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @haacked Not sure many people realize anything that's GET available is pretty much public even if it's behind a firewall and encrypted. 3 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Tried Okami, didn't like it that much. What's wrong with me? First Braid, then that? 4 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Beat the last advanced map in Portal Still Alive. Vanilla Crazy Cake! 5 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) So seriously, is the stock market dancing Limbo? If it is, it's quite good at it. 6 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @shanselman This is wrong on so many levels... Going to the source of that outrageous comment and answering... http://is.gd/7wRH 6 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Almost created what I thought would be the first LOLCat API in .NET: IHasTemplateContext, only to discover that IHasXmlNode beat me to it. 6 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Retweeting @scottgal: Man, forgot I was reading the Oniopn for a second...phew! http://is.gd/58kT 22 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Retweeting @bradwilson: Retweet @jeresig: Totally awesome jQuery Pumpkin: http://bit.ly/xPd8T 23 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @ardalis I choose to call it Office 13. 23 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Subliminal message for geeks: Treadwell's shirt has 0x007FFF on it, which of course is the hex representation of Azure. 23 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Talking in front of >1400 people this afternoon. Scaaaary! ASP.NET Roadmap talk, room 153. 24 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) All the jQuery IntelliSense links: http://tinyurl.com/5qgy2r 24 days ago from twhirl

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) jQuery Intellisense documentation file is live on the jQuery servers. w00t! http://is.gd/4VGV 24 days ago from twhirl

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