On September 19th, I made the initial contribution to Open RIA Services, committing the RIA Services codebase. The project is officially under way, giving developers even greater input into a framework that they love and reinforcing existing investments. Right off the bat, I’d like to thank you for your patience... [Read More]

As we look forward to the Open RIA Services project, we want to make sure we’re helping lay out a transition for those that desire to make the switch.  As part of that transition plan, we have just published 2 new NuGet packages for RIA Services: the Silverlight Client and... [Read More]

It’s about time, right‽  In fact, it has been 3 and a half years since I first declared that getting RIA Services open-sourced was my stretch goal. Since then, I’ve seen dozens of forum posts, hundreds of tweets, and over 13,000 page-views for my original declaration.  There was even a... [Read More]

Hello, my name is Jeff.  I last said “We accept pull requests” one week ago on February 18th during the MVP Summit. My apologies I want to apologize to the MVPs who heard me say this last week.  The words did not convey the message I was attempting to convey.... [Read More]

One of the responsibilities I have come to own is our group’s NuGet package publishing.  My group owns all of the ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Web Pages, Razor, and SignalR packages, among others; and there are quite a few of them.  When it’s time to publish a set of packages,... [Read More]