September 2009 - Posts

Silverlight designer sample code is posted by Silverlight SDK

If you’ve been wishing for some helpful designer gestures for your Silverlight DataGrid controls, look no further. The Silverlight Designer Sample is available at the WPF and Silverlight Designer Extensibility site. It demonstrates a pretty neat designer...

A big day for Web pros: WebsiteSpark, Web PI and more! by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today we’re launching a number of really cool things for Web developers.   WebsiteSpark WebsiteSpark is a program designed to jumpstart Web development for individuals or small companies who make a living on the Web.  The program is free to...

Six Ways to Help Customers Extend their Web Sites by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Wow – do we have a bunch of announcements for you! If you care about Web sites, read on. From really cool media scenarios, to making it easy getting started on the Microsoft Web Platform, to advanced tweaks to your Web site – we have something for all...

Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program by ScottGu's Blog

I’m excited to announce a new program – WebsiteSpark – that Microsoft is launching today. WebsiteSpark is designed for independent web developers and web development companies that build web applications and web sites on behalf of others.  It enables...

eWeek Reviews for IIS 7.5 and FTP 7.5 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

One of my coworkers, Vijay Sen, just forwarded the following eWeek review of IIS 7.5 to me: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/REVIEW-Microsoft-IIS-75-Improves-Management-Deployment-Options-822018/ The review was written by Jim Rapoza , and he said some...

MultiBrowser or CrossBrowser Testing and deconstructing Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

Cross-browser testing is a hassle. Most of the time you can follow standards and get a decent looking website working cross browser, but there's always variations. All browsers have their quirks and older IEs have more than their fair share. As I...

Zend Launches Open Source Initiative to Drive Cloud Application Development by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today, Zend Technologies announced the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, which is a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in the cloud, while enabling them to unlock value-added features...

Programming for Absolute Beginners by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

You, Dear Reader, very likely don't need this information. I assume you're probably not a beginner. BUT, you likely KNOW a beginner. Share this information with them! A bunch of people on Twitter discovered the MSDN Beginner Developer Center today...

Square Foot Gardening for Programmers by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

As I've said before, I'm not handy, but I'm trying . I want to also point out that I know exactly ZERO about gardening. All that said, here's what I did this year. April 10th This April my wife said it was time for us to have a garden...

Tip/Trick: Increase your VS screen real estate by disabling HTML Navigation Bar by ScottGu's Blog

Below is a tip/trick I twittered via my Twitter account earlier today.  A number of people seemed interested in – so I thought i'd blog it here too. HTML Navigation Bar in VS 2008 By default, when you are in HTML source-editing mode with VS 2008...

Fluent API for .NET RIA Services Metadata by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

.NET RIA Services relies heavily on metadata annotations for expressing intent beyond what can be inferrd via convention. For example, validation rules on entities and members can be declared as annotations, which then enable a variety of consumption...

Tip #95: Did you know… That Web Application Projects and Class libraries are now available in Express edition? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Creating a Web Application Project was possible only in VS standard SKU and above in VS 2008. But with VS 2008 SP1 we went ahead and added support for WAP and class libraries in Visual Web Developer Express edition SP1. You can now create WAPs by going...

Control web.config inheritance with IIS 7, ASP.NET options by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A person I work with was looking to control web.config inheritance in sub-folders within a website. Through some research, asking on an geek mailing list, here is three options that came out. Two are IIS based , one is using ASP.NET. Hope this helps Option...

How WinCache make PHP run faster by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Why WinCache? Use of PHP accelerators is very common to make PHP run faster. Most of the existing PHP accelerators which are in use today are designed keeping *nix architecture in mind and mostly doesn’t work well on Windows. For example, APC which is...

Batch Converting a Directory Tree of Videos Recursively with Handbrake for Streaming to an Xbox360 by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

I've got many many gigs of 640x480 video of the kids and family taken on my Flip Ultra and then HiDef video taken with a Creative Vado HD , my current favorite pocket video camera. There's also a bunch of random videos taken with whatever video...
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