June 2009 - Posts

Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

There's a lot of information, both useless and useful, on Twitter. When you get started on Twitter the shear amount of crap can be totally overwhelming. Twitter's a lot like Tivo (Digital Video Recorders). It'll record everything and everyone...

How to download IIS? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A lot of folks ask us how to "download" IIS; since other web server offerings are available for download on a multiple of platforms, it's an obvious question for the Microsoft web platform stack as well. Well, IIS has historically shipped...

Wimbledon Championships in live 720p by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

One of the things distracting me from blogging lately has now been announced: the Wimbledon Championships are going to be live HD in Silverlight starting today (Saturday June 27th). Full details (once again) at the Silverlight Team Blog . This is going...

Tip #84: Did you know… How to set a Start page for your Web Site in Visual Web Developer? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

As you are developing your site, you may want to start at a particular page for testing your web site. By defaults, when you start debugging, Visual Studio runs the page that was currently in focus in your designer. If you set this page, Visual web Developer...

Troubleshooting HTTP 401.3 errors with Process Monitor by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Last week I posted the following blog which showed how to use Process Monitor to troubleshoot service startup issues. http://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics/archive/2009/06/16/troubleshooting-service-startup-issues-with-process-monitor.aspx To continue on that...

The Weekly Source Code 43 - ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

I really advocate folks reading as much source as they can because you become a better writer by reading as much as writing. That's the whole point of the Weekly Source Code - reading code to be a better developer. Reading code in Open Source projects...

The HaaHa Show visits .NET Rocks by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

While in Norway last week, Phil Haack and I were lucky enough to do a LIVE taping with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks ! Hopefully the energy of the room is appropriately captured in the audio recording, because it was a hoot. The whole...

Silverlight on Xbox 360 demo at Cannes by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Some of you have asked me about Scott Guthrie's twitter mention of the Xbox 360 Silverlight advertising demo at Cannes. So, yes, Silverlight 3 is coming to the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. We're mainly discussing this in the context of advertising...

Hanselminutes Podcast 166 - Windows Presentation Foundation explained by Ian Griffiths by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

My one-hundred-and-sixty-sixth podcast is up . Scott chats with Ian Griffiths about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) . Why is it so hard to master? What techniques should the WinForms developer learn first? Scott's working on a side project,...

FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1 – RC by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today IIS team has released the FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1 – Release Candidate. This version is based on FastCGI Extension 1.0 and it adds several important improvements and features. The release is believed to have a quality...

Tip #83: Did you know... You can get the name of the calling method from the stack using reflection? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Nearly every program needs a logger to log events, errors and exceptions. Sometimes it is also useful to log the name of the method that logged the event. The easiest way to do that is to make the log method take both the calling method name and event...

How to Add a Locked Header Row to an ASP.NET GridView Control by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

The GridView control is often used to display tabular data, much like an Excel spreadsheet. However, unlike Excel, the GridView control doesn't have any automatic way of locking the header row so that it doesn't scroll out of view. Check out this...

Crafting a Better PHP Build Process on Windows – Part IV by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

In the previous post , I discussed what it took to use PGO on the Windows PHP build. That led to me building automated build scripts... Automation as the root of all evil "Anything that can be done for you, automatically, can be done to you, automatically...

ASP.NET Ajax - Script Combining and moving ScriptResource.axd's to Static Scripts by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

I've got a little something I'm doing and I wanted to take control over some scripts that were being added by ASP.NET WebForms. Remember that ASP.NET WebForms is designed around a control/component model, so you don't get 100% control over...

Finding malware in your Web Site using IIS SEO Toolkit by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

The other day a friend of mine who owns a Web site asked me to look at his Web site to see if I could spot anything weird since according to his Web Hosting provider it was being flagged as malware infected by Google. My friend (who is not technical at...
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