September 2009 - Posts

A Tale of Two Developers and Visual Studio Sites and Apps by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

We've encountered several scenarios in which customers have multiple developers working on a single web application in Visual Studio. In such cases, it's not uncommon for each developer to be working on a portion of the application. There isn't...
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WebDeploy Auto-Completion UI by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

As the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool gained popularity, it has undergone a lot of churn which resulted in the continual addition of new features and a humongous set of command-line options. This tool has been built to alleviate a lot of pain in the usage...

Web Deployment Tool has gone RTW by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

After 2 years of development and lots of customer feedback, Microsoft is proud to announce that the Web Deployment Tool has gone  RTW version 1.0! You can now download the RTW version and use it in production, and it is fully supported by Microsoft...
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Tip#96: Did you know…You could publish your SQL databases using the SQL Publishing Wizard? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can use the SQL Publishing wizard in VS 2008/VWD 2008 to deploy a local database from your development machine to a hosting environment on a remote machine. This is how you will accomplish this: Step 1: Create a new web site by selecting menu File...
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MSDeploy , XPath and XSL: Part III: Auto generate setParamFile from package and batch file to migrate apps to sites by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

MSdeploy along with XSL is the way to go if you want to simplify many of the routine tasks that one needs to do. Two of the common scenarios are listed below. Before we start, you can download msxsl for free from here and the web deployment tool (msdeploy...
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Query password protected sites using IIS SEO Toolkit beta 2 available by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Carlos from the IIS team announced the IIS SEO toolkit supports querying sites with Basic or Windows Authentication. I was looking for support against Sharepoint and protected sites. This tool hasn't gotten enough press and is a original piece of...
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Creating a Microsoft Access Provider for IIS Database Manager by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Following up on my last blog post about the API set for the IIS Database Manager , I have something of a secret to let you in on - you can use the code samples in several of those API documents to create a fully functional provider for Microsoft Access...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 181 - Monomania - Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

My one-hundred-and-eighty-first podcast is up . Scott chats with Mono Product Manager Joseph Hill and Monospace conference organizer and continuous learner Scott Bellware about the state of Mono. Is Mono competition or diversity? How hard are cross platform...
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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...
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Announcing Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit V3.5: better UI, faster development, richer experience for non-Messenger users by Live Services

We’ve been working hard on the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (MWT) which allows you to connect your web site to 330M+ people who use Windows Live Messenger every month! Today we’d like to announce the availability of the Messenger Web Toolkit v3...

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...
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Microsoft, Zend and others announce Simple API for Cloud Application Services by Windows Azure

Yesterday Microsoft, Zend and others launched the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in the cloud, while enabling them to unlock value-added features...

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...
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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...
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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...
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