{"id":1076,"date":"2008-11-28T08:54:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T07:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1076-from-the-archives-mark-anders-and-scott-guthrie-on-asp.html"},"modified":"2008-11-28T08:54:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T07:54:04","slug":"from-the-archives-mark-anders-and-scott-guthrie-on-asp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1076-from-the-archives-mark-anders-and-scott-guthrie-on-asp.html","title":{"rendered":"From the archives: Mark Anders and Scott Guthrie on ASP+"},"content":{"rendered":"

My editor at The Register asked me if I had any interviews that would be fun to dig out for a retrospective piece. This one<\/a> is from September 2000, shortly after the announcement of the .NET Framework, where Microsoft\u2019s Mark Anders and Scott Guthrie talk to me about ASP+, the name for ASP.NET when it was in preview.<\/p>\n

Listening to the whole interview was a little frustrating, because most of the time I asked questions that were interesting at the time, like the relationship between ASP.NET and COM, but not so much now. I was reminded though that Guthrie gave an impressive demo of what we now call AJAX, where updates to a web page are processed on the client, and described to me how it worked. <\/p>\n

The pair also enthused about hosting Windows Forms controls in the browser, one of the .NET ideas that did not really become practical until the release of Silverlight<\/a>. The full WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) also works well in the browser, but most web developers rule it out because it is Windows only.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, AJAX might never have taken off without the work of Google, while Silverlight now looks like a reaction to Flash. I suspect that Microsoft found it difficult to evolve these ideas into full products because it clung to the idea of a Windows-centric Internet, where Windows rather than the browser is the rich client.<\/p>\n

Guthrie is now Corporate VP, .NET Developer Division at Microsoft, while Anders is at Adobe where he has been working on a tool for the Flash platform called Catalyst<\/a>, previously known as Thermo.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: silverlight<\/a>, flash<\/a>, mark anders<\/a>, scott guthrie<\/a>, ajax<\/a>, asp.net<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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