December 2009 - Posts

The (Near) Final Word on Multi-Monitor Taskbars for Windows 7 - Ultramon vs. DisplayFusion by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

Wow, this was the longest time I've ever gone without blogging. It was very interesting being (reasonably) unplugged. I was even more unplugged this time than last year when we spent Christmas in South Africa (where I was blogging near-daily over...
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Installing WordPress on IIS using the Web Platform Installer by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Introduction In the following walkthrough we will step through the installation of WordPress using the Web Platform Installer (WebPi).   Installation 1. Launch the Web Platform Installer either from IIS Manager or Start > All Programs > Microsoft...

WebPI Contextual Install by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

As you all know, WebPI offers a rich set products and applications and continues to offer more. One of my favorite features in WebPI (it’s been in PI since its v1 days) is called Contextual Install. This feature provides a seamless experience for customers...

IIS Security: Semi-colons in URL by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

IIS security guy Nazim Lala has just blogged about a IIS 6 security issue, related to the use of Semi-colon (;) in a URL. It's not much of an issue if your IIS 6 server is properly configured. Good example of how Best practices can make your day....
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Public disclosure of IIS security issue with semi-colons in URL by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

IIS has been alerted to the claim of a new security issue in IIS 6 and I wanted to explain the issue and our position on it. The issue in question affects only IIS 6 (Windows Server 2003) and arises when you send a URL with a semi-colon in it. IIS 6 uses...

Is there a way to get WebPI to install Products in an offline way? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

FAQ: Do I always need to be online for WebPI to download and install all the products it offers? Short answer: Yes FAQ: Is there a way to get webpi to install products in an offline way? Many WebPI customers have requested for this feature. While WebPI...

Why should I use Web Platform Installer? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

This is one question I have often heard from a lot of people. I had written about this a long time back and yet find it interesting enough to give it another shot. For those who are not aware... Web platform installer is a free tool from Microsoft which...
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IIS Videos on Dr. Dobb's Web Site by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Like many people I know, I get a lot of email from various industry-related publications; some of the emails are spam, and the others are from computer magazines that I subscribe to. (And there are several of those. ;-] ) Anyway, I received an email the...
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Debugging WINCACHE using Visual Studio – Cache management by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Previous Post In the last post I talked about setting important breakpoints. In this post I will talk about how different cache is managed using shared memory which is part of the function I told you to put breakpoint in. And yes it is the most important...
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Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can enable ASP.NET tracing either at an Application level or at a page level; see Tip# 77: Did you know… How to enable Page Level Tracing for your ASP.NET pages? for more information. With the tracing enabled, you can view the trace output in a trace...
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Sample Script to Verify IIS File Versions for KB973917 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Microsoft recently released an update for Internet Information Services (IIS), as described in the following article: Description of the update that implements Extended Protection for Authentication in Internet Information Services (IIS) http://support...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Update by ScottGu's Blog

In October we shipped the public Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.  The feedback on the new features in VS 2010 and .NET 4 has been really great.  I’ve been working on a blog series about some of them (lots more posts to go!)...
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Silverlight 4 demos from my PDC Keynote now available by ScottGu's Blog

[ In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Last month I gave a Silverlight 4 keynote at the PDC conference.  You can watch my keynote online here (my part of the...
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How to Build Scalable and Robust Live Smooth Streaming Server Solutions by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

As you may know, IIS Media Services 3.0 includes the latest smooth streaming technology offering – Live Smooth Streaming with which you can do HD quality live streaming with smooth playback experience. Together with Smooth Streaming enabled Silverlight...

Using the Silverlight Toolkit LayoutTransformer Control for Angled Column Header Text by Silverlight SDK

I recently inherited the DataGrid control and, after reading over customer feedback and forum posts, one of the tasks I gave myself was to create a code example for the DataGrid.ColumnHeaderStyle property. After poking around I though it would be interesting...
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