By Jason Kergosien on 7/28/2008 10:23 PM

I just finished a new video on that is being highlighted on NukeCast.NET.  The video, titled "Cambrian" First Look - Skinning Enhancements focuses on the new skinning features of Cambrian.  It will be the first of a multi-part series on Cambrian.

Also, in the next couple of weeks, we're putting out several videos on .NET 3.5 SP1 features such as Silverlight Deep Zoom and Dynamic Data.

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By Jason Kergosien on 6/19/2008 7:56 AM

I admit when I'm the last one to the boat.  I recently started exploring some social networking tools.  For the longest time, I avoided them simply because I did not see the value for me individually or the opportunity for my business.  Early on, they seemed like gimicks that would not likely last.  (man, I sound old!)

When several friends and colleagues started promoting their LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, I decided to look into it again. Twitter has been fun, but it raised some questions in my mind.  Thus the purpose for this blog post.


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By Jason Kergosien on 6/3/2008 12:06 PM

I'll be presenting at the next Dallas DotNetNuke Users Group on Deep Zoom, Microsoft's new feature in Silverlight 2 that allows for interactive navigation and zooming on collections of extremely high definition images.  We'll go over how to add a Silverlight module to DNN and how to create a collection of images in Expression Blend that users can interact with on the web. 

Thursday, June 19, 2008
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Microsoft Building, Irving TX

For more and to RSVP, sign up on the Dallas DNN Users Group website.

By Jason Kergosien on 6/3/2008 11:51 AM

Catch some free instructor led training this Friday on Telerik's Radmenu, TabStrip, and PanelBar in DotNetNuke. Will Ballard of Ingen Systems will be presenting in an hour long webinar on how to leverage Telerik's controls to create standards compliant valid XHTML pages, improving search engine rankings, less complex code, and faster page loads.

This session is one of a weekly series of free training courses sponsored by Ingen Systems.  RSVPs are required so visit Ingen's  free weekly training page to sign up for this session and view upcoming sessions.

By Jason Kergosien on 6/3/2008 11:34 AM

Recently, I've been digging into Silverlight 2's Deep Zoom technology which is a part of the upcoming release of .NET 3.5 SP1. have been having fun learning how to bounce between the rich XAML UI tools in Expression Blend and the ever functional Visual Studio 2008.

For months now, I've been working with ASP.NET Dynamic Data, which is also a part of the .NET 3.5 SP1 release.  Recently, I upgraded Visual Studio 2008 with the SP1 Beta, which was required to take advantage of the new Wizard in the latest build of Dynamic Data (I'll blog about this in a later post).  The upgrade went great and the wizards were allowed to roam freely across the plentiful app domains of my laptop.  (a little poetical liberty here!).

It was only when I delved back into Deep Zoom that I realized that there were some breaking changes here.  The short story, after blood, sweat, and some serious Googling, is that the VS 2008 SP1 install breaks some ... Read More »

By Jason Kergosien on 5/31/2008 11:46 PM

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By Jason Kergosien on 5/27/2008 2:22 PM

There are many common questions or areas of interest that we hear in the DNN community.& Will Ballard and I have started a weekly teaching series to address some of these.& It's also a great sounding board for some of the cool things that we've learned in DNN.

Each Friday at 2pm (central time), we will have a live web cast, running +- 1 hour.& RSVPs are required, as space is limited.&

Sign up for a session or view previous sessions. All free!

Give it a try and give us your feedback.

By Jason Kergosien on 5/27/2008 2:20 PM

This site has been a long time in the making.

I originally purchased the domain name immediately after I started reading my first book on C#:


It did seem much easier than C++ and had many of the best features of Java. Though I had learned VB and some VB.NET, I preferred using a language that I considered cleaner, rmore efficient view of my code (yes, my personal opinion here, but hey, this is my blog  :) ).

More to come.