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Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions–LIDNUG

Omar AL Zabir on things you don't find easily — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:52:00 GMT

Here’s the recent presentation made on LIDNUG on scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users. Scaling ASP.NET websites from thousands to millions of users by Omar AL Zabir Here’re the slides. Scaling asp.net websites to millions of users Read More......(read more)

Flush IIS HTTP and FTP Logs to Disk

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:11:13 GMT

Today I wanted to find a way to flush the IIS FTP logs on-demand. The logs for IIS FTP flush to disk every 6 minutes, and the HTTP logs every 1 minute (or 64kb). This can make troubleshooting difficult when you don’t receive immediate access Read More......(read more)

Using URL Rewrite to Insert Different Scripts Based on Browser Type

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:14:11 GMT

I just stumbled across a piece of sample code that I had written several months ago for a coworker, and I thought that I'd share it with everyone. Here's the scenario: my coworker asked me if it was possible to have different client-side scripts Read More......(read more)

Windows Phone Design Guidelines on MSDN

Silverlight and Windows Phone SDK — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:18:07 GMT

It was recently brought to my attention that we have done a poor job of evangelizing the Windows Phone Design Guidelines on MSDN . These guidelines were previously available in PDF format, but a few months ago a couple of folks worked really hard to bring Read More......(read more)

Writing ASP.NET MVC bootstrapper with Autobox

Mehfuz's WebLog — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:47:10 GMT

This will post will show how you can use AutoBox to easily write a bootstrapper for ASP.NET MVC. I have used the latest version of AutoBox (available from nuget, this version also includes Castle.Windsor internally for managing dependencies rather using Read More......(read more)

Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 2 - Using Gradient Colors for Area Charts

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:30:46 GMT

In Part 2 of this series, I'll show you how to customize the area chart from Part 1 to show the chart area with a gradient. More specifically, there are three different chart gradient methods that we'll take a look at in this blog post: SetOneColorGradient Read More......(read more)

TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:30:47 GMT

I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Belgium and Dutch TechDays next month. I’ll be doing three tech talks at each of the events: Overview of Windows Azure A look at ASP.NET MVC 4 ScottGu Unplugged I’m particularly excited about the “A look at ASP Read More......(read more)

Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 1 - Working With Configuration Scripts

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:13:52 GMT

I recently had a situation where I wanted to customize the chart output from Log Parser, and after a bunch of research I eventually arrived at the conclusion that configuration scripts for create customized charts are probably the least-documented feature Read More......(read more)

Assert the order of expected calls over instances

Mehfuz's WebLog — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:24:10 GMT

You want to assert that user is validated before withdrawing amount from an account. JustMock lets you specify the order in which your setups should be executed. This helps you to identify the exact way in which a particular logic is implemented. Read More......(read more)

Joomla! 2.5 Adds SQL Server Support!

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:12:00 GMT

This is a short post to shareexciting news: Jooma! 2.5, which shipped earlier this week, now has support for SQL Server! Of course, this release contains lots more goodies, but the addition of a database abstraction layer that supports multiple databases Read More......(read more)

Recommended Listening–Clint Huffman on RunAs Radio

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:34:19 GMT

This week’s RunAs Radio has Clint Huffman , a Microsoft Premier Field Engieer talking to Richard Campbell about understanding the health state of IIS7/7.5. There is some excellent content in this episode and I’d strongly recommend listning to it Read More......(read more)

Microsoft at Node Summit

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:45:00 GMT

We are excited to be attending and participating at Node Summit in San Francisco this week. Among those Microsoft staffers on site are Server & Tools Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie - who participated on a panel about Platform as a Service Read More......(read more)

IIS FTP User Isolation-Week 46

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:34:37 GMT

You can find this week’s video here . I’ve been looking forward to releasing this week’s video. IIS FTP User isolation is an interesting topic because it offers a lot of power and flexibility but it’s not very intuitive because of how it’s managed Read More......(read more)

Getting Started with Windows Azure

ScottGu's Blog — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:24:32 GMT

This is the second in a series of posts I’m doing on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform. In today’s post I’m going to cover how to sign-up and get started with Windows Azure using a no-obligation 3 month free trial offer. Read More......(read more)

Windows Azure

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:35:57 GMT

As some of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the last 6 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to run the teams that build ASP.NET, core pieces of .NET and VS, and a bunch of other products Read More......(read more)

Smooth Streaming to XBox and Beyond

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:17:54 GMT

Last month, Microsoft announced the new TV platform for XBox and a long list of content providers that will be bringing their TV and premium content onto XBox. For more detailed information, please check the press release here and here . As someone from Read More......(read more)

“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (Jan 16th)

ScottGu's Blog — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:08:00 GMT

This coming Monday (Jan 16th) I’m doing another online LIDNUG session . The talk will be from 10am to 11:30am (Pacific Time). I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun. Attendees can ask any questions they want Read More......(read more)

Tips & Tricks: DebugDiag 1.2

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:32:37 GMT

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to have a very small hand in the birth of DebugDiag. In version 1.0, I got to do some work on the analysis scripts, as well as work on one of the debugger extensions it uses for analysis. As a result of the time I spent Read More......(read more)

Getting AWStats installed and configured on IIS 7.5

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:31:24 GMT

One of things I’ve wanted to evaluate is AWStats for doing analytics on a variety of sites I run. AWStats ( www.awstats.org ) is a free Open Source (Perl based) package. One of the things I couldn't find that covered the steps to get IIS 7.5 up and Read More......(read more)

Windows Azure Libraries for Java Available, including support for Service Bus

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:35:00 GMT

Good news for all you Java developers out there: I am happy to share with you the availability of Windows Azure libraries for Java that provide Java-based access to the functionality exposed via the REST API in Windows Azure Service Bus . You can download Read More......(read more)

Microsoft SharePoint Community Day 2012

Omi Azad — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:40:06 GMT

For the very first time Microsoft Bangladesh and SharePoint Experts Community jointly organized Microsoft SharePoint Community Day 2012. SharePoint is not a very old technology term in Bangladesh but the response of the event was remarkable. Specially the manifestation from Enterprise and Government sector customers.

Our intention was to share success stories, career opportunities and platform offerings to the audience. Target audience were both IT Pro and Developers. We were worried about mixing up both audiences! But thanks to the community leads who handled it very well; though some said “the event was mainly focused on advertising SharePoint to the corporate people” on our Facebook event page.

Here is a summary of the event for you-

We were very fortunate to have Lutful Khandker, Azure Architect Evangelist from Microsoft Corp. among us. He came to visit Bangladesh for personal reasons but when he learned about the event, he was also very excited to meet the local community and see the response. He started the event with some practice and success stories of US and the world. He invited the developers to explore the platform and play with it, which might lead them to a very healthy career in future.

After that MJ Ferdous from Brain Station 23 came on the stage with his session “SharePoint 2010 Overview and Introduction.” He tried to make the audience understand what SharePoint is, what are the benefits of using SharePoint. He almost answered 20 questions from the audiences, which was quite surprising.

Rakib Hasan from GrameenPhone IT came with his presentation “SharePoint as an Enterprise Solution” after the first coffee break. The response was HUGE on this session. Because we invited customers who bought SharePoint license and never implemented them, Rakib answered many of their queries too.

Microsoft MVP Tanzim Saqib came with his presentation “Office 365: Be a SaaS/Cloud Developer Now and Start Selling Apps.” Office 365 is not available in Bangladesh but as Bangladeshi IT market is very much focused on outsourcing jobs from US/Europe, so this is to show the developers the opportunities available up there.

Md. Sofiuzzaman, Licensing Specialist from Microsoft Bangladesh highlighted the licensing side of SharePoint after lunch break. Most of the Audience didn’t have any knowledge on licensing and this session helped them to understand licensing. Many were surprised to learn about free SharePoint foundation.

Now the SharePoint magician speaker Mark Miller comes, who is the founder and editor of EndUserSharePoint.com. No he didn’t come all the way from New York; Microsoft Lync saved the money and we did the presentation online. The title of his presentation was “To Host or Not to Host: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Decisions” and after watching his presentation, I must say, Mark is really a magician. One moment he makes the audience confuse and the other moment he solves the confusion. I believe we do not have too many speakers like him in the industry. I’d like to take the privilege to quote one comment from one of the attendees on FaceBook-

One more session we did with Lync. Microsoft MVP Sohel Rana came with his presentation “SharePoint as Content Management System” from Denmark. His slot was for 30 minutes but he did the session for more than 1 hour because the question and answer session was very interesting.

Once again Tanzim Saqib came with his 2nd presentation “Hacking Office365 Online Services: SharePoint, Exchange, Lync. Oh my!” after the 2nd coffee break. Very interesting presentation for DEV audience.

After that “SharePoint 2010 Administration & Development” presentation was presented reciprocally by MJ Ferdous and Rabiul Islam from Microsoft Partner SoftwarePeople. This was VERY interesting session for the audience. The Q&A session was more than 30 minute long and the best part was, they were not the only one to answer the questions. By then some of the audiences started to answer other’s.

Finally Microsoft MVP Ashraful Alam Joy came with his presentation “Utilizing SharePoint with TFS 2010.” But it was not the presentation. Joy is a very vocal speaker and all types of audience loves him for his career guidelines.

I’d like to say that the Q&A made the event so interesting. Finally a special thanks to Microsoft Bangladesh Family for their amazing support.

We got very good response from media. Reporters from many national newspaper visited the event. Desh TV, Bijoy TV did news on the event and as Priyo.com was the E-Media partner of the event, they did live blogging on the event on their website.

Our concern was to make the community aware of SharePoint and after the event I believe we are more than successful with the presence of 350+ audience. And Finally we did a raffle draw and distributer WiMax Modems, Router and Windows Phone to the winners but all participants got colorful Windows Phone T-Shirts. And last but not least, event speakers were honored with crests.

Download the presentations:

Redirecting Non-www to Domain Equivalent

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:00:19 GMT

A question came up on a blog post of mine on how to redirect a domain name that doesn’t have www in it while retaining the original domain name. Basically, to have a generic redirect to add on a www if it’s not already there. For example, how could Read More......(read more)

IIS FTP and IIS Manager Users-Week 45

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:27:49 GMT

You can find this week’s video here . IIS FTP supports a new type of user called IIS Manager Users. This type of user can be used instead of Windows Local or Active Directory Users. They are useful if you want to manage a number of FTP users but don’t Read More......(read more)

Storing IIS 7.5 WebDAV Properties in NTFS Alternate Data Streams

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:39:26 GMT

Two months ago Microsoft published an update for the WebDAV module that shipped with IIS 7.5 in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and this update is documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article ID 2593591: FIX: A hotfix is available that enables Read More......(read more)

আমার নতুন গ্যাজেট কিন্ডল ফায়ার নিয়ে ১৯ ঘন্টা

Reality Bites — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:03:40 GMT

২০১১ সালে বেশ কিছু গ্যাজেট নিয়ে ঘাঁটাঘাঁটি করার সুযোগ হয়েছে। এর মধ্যে এন্ড্রোয়েডের বেশ কিছু ডিভাইস ছিলো। এন্ড্রয়েড নিয়ে যত ঘেঁটেছি, তিক্ততা ততই বেড়েছে। অপারেটিং সিস্টেম নির্মাতা কোনো লিমিটেশন নির্ধারণ করে না দিলে হার্ডওয়্যার কিনে ক্রেতাদের বিপদে পড়তে হয়। আমি কেনো এন্ড্রোয়েডের জিভাইসগুলি নিয়ে বিরক্ত সেটি একটা বলার প্রয়োজন মনে করছি। এই বছর শুরুর দিকেই [...]...(read more)