July 2010 - Posts

Web Farm Framework 2.0 overview by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

IIS team has recently released a Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta . The goal of the Web Farm Framework is to enable easy provisioning, deployment and managing of web farms. This blog post provides an example of what Web Farm Framework can do and how it can...
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Microsoft "Daily Build" Nerd Dinner - August 4th in Seattle, Redmond by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Are you in King County/Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Washington and surrounding areas? Are you a huge nerd ? Perhaps a geek ? No? Maybe a dork , dweeb or wonk . Maybe you're in town for an SDR (Software Design Review) or VSLive ! Quite possibly you're...
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VS 2010 Web Deployment by ScottGu's Blog

This is the twenty-fifth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post is the first of several posts I’ll be doing that cover some of the improvements we’ve made around web deployment.  I’ll provide a high...
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FTP Clients - Part 9: Expression Web 4 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

For this installment in my series about FTP Clients I'm going to review the FTP features in Microsoft's Expression Web 4 (EW4). You can find out more about the Microsoft Expression series of products from the following URL: http://www.microsoft...
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Troubleshoot ASP.NET Errors Remotely–while Appearing Local by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

For years I’ve wanted to be able to troubleshoot website remotely by seeing the detailed error report, while ensuring that other users on the web only see the friendly non-detailed error. This is now possible with URL Rewrite 2.0. Through a simple rule...
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Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts by ScottGu's Blog

Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters .  These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice “cheat sheet” tables that can help you quickly lookup...
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WebMatrix Publishing – Common errors and workarounds by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I have always felt that publishing a site so it works on your remote server is a little bit of a black art. Many stars have to align: Files and databases have to transfer Settings such as connection strings have to transform to remote values Remote server...

Serving external traffic with WebMatrix Beta by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You will notice in WebMatrix Beta that the default website as well as new ones you create are bound to localhost. In other words, they can service local traffic only. This default behavior makes a lot of sense since we want users to explicitly opt into...

View local (offline) help in Visual Studio 2010 with this extension by Silverlight SDK

Although I am involved with content creation (meaning I write the stuff) and not the actual publishing mechanisms for MSDN documentation, I've still heard the rumblings about the new help experience with Visual Studio 2010. A lot of folks don't...
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Integrating the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor (RCE) with IIS Transform Manager by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

My friend Ezequiel Jadib at Southworks is the developer for the Rough Cut Editor solution that is posted up on the MSDN Code Gallery.  He’s done a fantastic job of turning some of my early ideas on what the RCE could be into a shipping solution that...

Introducing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Preview 1) by ScottGu's Blog

This morning we posted the “Preview 1” release of ASP.NET MVC 3.  You can download it here . We’ve used an iterative development approach from the very beginning of the ASP.NET MVC project, and deliver regular preview drops throughout the development...
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Another opportunity to provide feedback by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Dear PHP developers and SQL Server users, We, the PHP group in the SQL Connectivity product team, received a lot of feedback in our previous survey in Oct 2009, and we responded to the feedback by delivering a PDO driver in our v2.0 release. After releasing...
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Summary Comparison of Publish Options in WebMatrix by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

WebMatrix currently offers 3 methods for publishing: Web Deploy, FTP, and FTPS. What’s different and how can you decide between them? For starters, your choice of hosting provider may be a factor – not all publishing options will be available from all...
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Entity Framework 4 “Code-First” - Custom Database Schema Mapping by ScottGu's Blog

Last week I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option.  The EF “code-first” option enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data.  It enables you to: Develop without ever having...
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Did you know? You can add, manage and delete a SQL Server Compact Edition Database from WebMatrix. by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A common issue being reported by Microsoft WebMatrix Beta users, is that they are unable to easily delete a SQL Server Compact Edition database from with WebMatrix itself. There is a way to delete the CE databases using the Files workspace of WebMatrix...
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