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I’d like to thank the Herding Code folks for inviting me on the show is up. Here’s a rundown of the topics we discuss there:

• Developing ASP.NET apps with web standards.
• The merits of Silverlight.
• Coping with the avalanche of new stuff coming out of Redmond.
• Are wholesale conference of any value?
• The role of Microsoft "evangelists."
• Standing up to intimidation about the state of economy (hint: the economy functions as designed).
• When will Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices group get their act together?
• Has the MVP program lost its relevance?
• The role of ALT.NET in developer education.

Enjoy!

Now that the Microsoft AJAX Library has shipped, I’ve updated the cheat sheets and added two more.

Debugging

Tracing now lives in its own class, Sys.Debug, and is the same as in RC1. I think renaming debug was a good move. Opera’s wimpy error console is now supported, too.

Minor RTM Adjustments

Since I couldn’t find a what-changed-since-RTM document, I ran RC1 and RTM code through Beyond Compare (which rocks!) and fished for changes.

Date and Number classes had their parse methods renamed to parseLocale and parseInvariant, even though their counterparts are named format and formatLocale. Strange.

Two new cheat sheets: DomElement and DomEvent

These two took as much time as the other four. The reason is that DomElement is an essential, often-used class, and has several gotchas. DomEvent has a lot of nuances of its own. MS AJAX documentation is too broad at times, so I tried to clarify as much, yet stay as concise as possible to keep the one-pager format.

I’ll try to highlight those nuances in a post or two.

Download

Grab the new batch in PDF (360K) or XPS (3.9M). Yes, Foxit Reader–compliant.

Being a stickler for accuracy, I’ve been proof-reading them till I was blue in the face, but… If you see something, say something.

Enjoy!