I recently read that Dare Obasanjo from Microsoft say that AJAX is an endangered species because of Microsoft’s Silverlight. I totally disagree. You can read the article here.

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Recently I’ve had to make some specific changes for certain layout elements not working on a paticular web site. I had to have the identical layouts on IE 6 and Firefox. Another needed identical layout with IE 7 and Firefox and the latest one needed identical layout between IE 7 and IE 6.

So of [...]

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One of the guys I work for came up to me at work last week. He asked me if I could send an Outlook Appointment email to users when they signup for a meeting on the web site I was working on. I said I don’t know I’ll have to check it out. I wouldn’t [...]

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I found this code online. It allows a user to see their current meetings in their Outlook Calendar. The only two requirements is that the user has IE and Outlook on their machine.

<object classid=”clsid:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046″
id=”ViewCtlFolder”
width=”100%”
height=”400px”
codetype= “application/x-oleobject”
codebase=”http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/office/outlctlx.CAB#ver=9,0,0,3203″>
<param name=”Namespace” value=”MAPI”>
<param name=”Folder” value=”Calendar”>
<param name=”Restriction” value=””>
<param name=”DeferUpdate” value=”0″>
</object>

Demo Outlook Calendar

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Microsoft released a version of ASP.NET in May of 2007 called ASP.NET Futures. Included in this release are early developer preview features intended for future ASP.NET and .NET Framework releases. These new features contain a wide range of functionality for ASP.NET and Silverlight.
ASP.NET Futures contains the following:

ASP.NET AJAX Futures
Silverlight Controls for ASP.NET
Dynamic [...]

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Microsoft recently joined the OpenAjax Alliance organization.
The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source projects, and companies using Ajax that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies. The prime objective is to accelerate customer success with Ajax by promoting a customer’s [...]

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