Scott Guthrie opens a window on ASP.NET

Scott Guthrie

It's great to see that Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's ASP.NET lead, has popped up on the blog radar screen. Back in 2001, for Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast, Scott gave a fascinating and candid talk on the genesis of ASP.NET. Some interesting points from that talk:

The IIS metabase was so detested that a FrontPage team convinced a Word team to have the spellchecker change "metabase" to "meta-abyss" :-)
Despite early skepticism about the CLR and C#, the original ASP.NET subsystem wound up being 95% managed code.
The original plan was to build an XSLT-based UI model, but it just didn't work out.

Scott's new blog strikes just the right tone. He points to relevant articles and code, spotlights members of his team, talks about internal testing procedures, and gives readers a sense of the rhythm of product development. Excellent start, Scott!

Former URL: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/02/20.html#a610