Yes I am! I can finally announce that and I am sooo excited! I have been working with the Apress guys, most importantly Jonathan Hassell, on starting an intermediate-level book on Windows PowerShell (formerly known as Monad). We have finished the book proposal checklist (a huge one, mind you) and it got approved. I am now off to finishing the paperwork related to contracts and other boring stuff and I have already started writing. The book is tentatively titled Ubiquitous Automation with Windows PowerShell. I am an automation freak and I want to help everyone in the world reap the benefits of becoming...

I am happy to announce that I will be doing another WebCast with Joe Stagner at Microsoft this Thursday, May 31st at 9:00 AM PST (Noon EST). After the massive success of our last WebCast (which is still available for download), we arranged to make another appearance in the "Live from Redmond" WebCast series to address a common ASP.NET developer scenario. The WebCast, titled "Do-it-yourself forums", will show you how you can use RadGrid, RadTreeView, RadEditor, and RadAjax "Prometheus" (the version based on ASP.NET AJAX) to build a simple forum application in less than 60 minutes. If fact, here is a brief...

I just checked our brand new still unpublished Silverlight media player control and I have to say that I'm really amazed!!! Just check this:Isn't it cool? :-)Common guys post some more info/demos on this :-)...

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET controls:RadGridHelp topics: ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit extenders in RadGrid:http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/grid/?grdAJAXToolkitExtenders.html Aligning columns in each level of hierarchical grid:http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/grid/?grdAlignColumnsInHierarchy.htmlCode library entries: Expand/collapse hierarchy with ajax request on double click:http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-mctme.aspx Expand/collapse hierarchy client-side on double click:http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-mchgd.aspx Single selection within each group of RadGrid:http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-mbgeb.aspx

One of the features added to RadAjax "Prometheus" in the recent service pack was a new control called the RadAjaxManagerProxy. This control enables you to easily Ajaxify controls in your UserControls without worrying about adding multiple RadAjaxManagers to a page. Most RadAjax developers would probably say that Ajaxifying UserControls is one of the more difficult aspects of adding Ajax to an ASP.NET application. Even with good documentation, it is difficult to decide whether you should add an AjaxManager to each UserControl or handle all UserControl Ajax settings programmatically from a parent container. The big drawback of the later option (which is usually the...