Last week, the Öredev 2006 conference took place. I though it was a great event and I listen too many interesting speakers. I'll probably get back to write some reflections on some of the sessions in later blog posts.  My own workshop session took place last Tuesday and I was assitested with Göran Halvarsson at Dotway for this session. I thought the workshop went fine although I have'nt taken part of the workshop evaluations just yet..  As I been writing previously, the workshop was based on the ASP.NET AJAX July CTP rather than the newly released beta 2 version.  Not that it mattered that much I though since the concepts are the same.

I just sent the workshop labs and the instructions for the walkthroughs to Michael Tiberg, the project leader of Öredev, so they should be dowloadable from the Öredev website soon.  However, I've put in a lot of effort to convert the labs into the beta 2 syntax. This is quite cumbersome since much of the client control documentation still is missing at the ajax.asp.net web site. I'm almost done however, and I promise I will write about my endevaours with this matter in a future blog post.

I've been so tuned in lately on upgrading a .NET introduction course for Dotway, the company I work for, that I've totaly missed out on the ASP.NET AJAX beta 1 release that occured the 20^th of October. Feeling a bit embarassed about this I'm currently catching up on the news also in this release. As always, Scott Guthrie writes a spendid summary of the features in his blog. A lot of the features I found new in the beta 2 release yesterday apparantly were already there in the beta 1 release. Ohh, and sure, Scott writes an exellent summary on the beta 2 release as well.

So I'll be using my weekend to look through the changes that have been made, especially considering the Öredev AJAX workshop comming up on Tuesday. Yippidiye! 

I'm definetly not the only one blogging this news, but ASP.NET AJAX beta 2 has just been released. This would probably mean that we are not far from a final release. This version is said to be feature complete although there already is a CTP version available with some parts that are being worked on. (I'll probably get back with info on what.) My tip of the hand is 2-3 months.

I've just dowloaded the beta 2 and I haven't yet dug into it to see what changes there are since last CTP. But there is one thing I'd like to reflect upon already now.  When installing the beta 2,  it actually states ASP.NET AJAX extention. So we see that the ASP.NET AJAX will be completly integrated with the regular .NET Framework. My bet is that with time,  ASP.NET AJAX will be a natural part of ASP.NET. Also seing in the release notes, that the <atlas: prefix for web controls is changed to the regular <asp: prefix. Nice.

Oh well. Time to get my hands dirty.

Almost forgot. The .NET Framework 3.0 has just been relased too. But I'll refer to a collegue of mine for this news.

It's been a while since I last wrote something in my blog. Last time that happen was just before the Developer Summit conference in the beginning og June. The workshop went very well and I was quite happy that I had put soo much work preparing myself and the material. And guess what! next week I will be doing the workshop once again at the Öredev conference in Malmö on the 14th of November. Actually it is a pre-conference workshop day. This time I will get some assistance of my collegue Göran Halvarsson and since it looks like it's going to be fully booked I most likly will need it.

So why have'nt I blogged in a while? Well, actually, after the Developer Summit conference in June I went on long vacation for ... 13 weeks. Actually I was'nt only relaxing during this time, but did a different kind of work singing in the opera choral here in Malmö. My first visit in a professional choral was a great experience and hopefully it won't be the last time. We were doing Verdis Nabucco in Denmmark. A very intense choral
piece so I did spend a lot time this summer studying Italien lyrics. Weird. And difficult. Not at all like programming actually...  So after this I really have'nt come around to write in my blog althoug I've been back at my regular work for some time now. But that is going to change now I hope... Here we go!