June 2010 - Posts

IIS Express announced. by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Scott Guthrie announced IIS Express on his blog. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/28/introducing-iis-express.aspx Looks exciting. Few things I'm curious about people will ultimately try to use to replace XP 5.1 version with this, which...

Silverlight PivotViewer Now Available by ScottGu's Blog

Three months ago at MIX we announced and first demoed the Silverlight PivotViewer control. The Silverlight PivotViewer control enables you to visualize thousands of objects at once, and sort and browse data in a way that helps you see trends and quickly...

Getting Started with Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone 7 by Silverlight SDK

I’ve gotten the Windows Phone App fever. The past few days I’ve been creating my first Silverlight applications for Windows Phone and I have to say I’m impressed with the development environment and the emulator. I’ve done a lot...

An update on our CTP2 release by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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Introducing IIS Express by ScottGu's Blog

Developers today build and test ASP.NET sites and applications using one of two web-servers: The ASP.NET Development Server that comes built-into Visual Studio The IIS Web Server that comes built-into Windows Both of the above options have their pros...

C++ killed my grandpappy - Is C++ hard and where are the C++ coders hiding? by Scott Hanselman

After learning BASIC and ASM, for a job I started coding in C, when Hello World on Windows was 92 lines of code. (Apparently Hello World is easier now, says Pete Brown ) One of my first big projects was an app called Foolproof that kept kids in high school...

Now children, is all that Name-calling really necessary? Using FrameworkElement.Name at runtime by Silverlight SDK

Answering a recent silverlight.net forum question got me thinking again about how we've documented the use of FrameworkElement.Name , in particular how you might use it (or abuse it) at run time. Really, this is an area of API that has a few shades...

RIA Services and Authentication by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

Authentication is the third in a series of posts covering the key concepts of RIA Services using the Book Club application to digger deeper and go beyond the basics. Links to the first two posts on validation and authorization as well as an overview of...

Patch for Cut/Copy “Insufficient Memory” issue with VS 2010 by ScottGu's Blog

We’ve received several reports of an occasional issue occurring with VS 2010 when developers try and do “Cut” or “Copy” text operations of text.  In some cases VS incorrectly calculates that not enough memory is available (even though there is memory...

The Weekly Source Code 53 - "Get'er Done" Edition - XML in the left hand becomes HTTP POSTs in the right hand by Scott Hanselman

I wrote some code tonight in about ten minutes with a "Get'er Done" attitude. We all do that (I hope). It's one-time code that will solve a one-time problem. As such, it isn't always pretty, but it often is interesting. I've...

Hanselminutes Podcast 219 - Demystifying Microsoft's Application Server: Windows Server AppFabric with Karandeep Anand by Scott Hanselman

My two-hundred-and-nineteenth podcast is up . Microsoft's Application Server is out and it's called AppFabric. Scott chats with Karandeep Anand from the Distributed Application Server group at Microsoft about Windows Server AppFabric. It's...

Now available: Expression Encoder 4, IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta, SSME 1.0, SMF 2.0 RC1, Olympics case studies by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

While most of the world is on a collective vacation watching the World Cup, media teams at Microsoft have been busy at work. And watching the World Cup. Released this month: Expression Studio 4 , which of course includes Expression Encoder 4 . IIS Media...

Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 - Part 1 - Building a WEI 7.9 and RFC for building a GOM (God's Own Machine) by Scott Hanselman

Got enough acronyms in that title? WEI - Windows Experience Index. How fast is your machine? If you say "I've got a WEI 6.0" you've got a good machine, for example. RFC - Request for Comments. This is crowdsourcing. I want to know what...

Do they deserve the gift of your keystrokes? by Scott Hanselman

There are a finite number of keystrokes left in your hands before you die. - Me One of the most influential (to me personally) posts Jon Udell has written was his classic " count your keystrokes ." I've mentioned this post in a number of...

Hanselminutes Podcast 218 - Baratunde Thurston on Punditry, Politics, Race, iPads, The Onion and the Web by Scott Hanselman

My two-hundred-and-eighteenth podcast is up . Scott's in DC this week speaking at Blogging While Brown and he sits down with multimedia personality Baratunde Thurston . He's a Web Editor for TheOnion.com, a founder at JackAndJillPolitics.com,...
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