May 2011 - Posts

Deploying LightSwitch Applications by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Hopefully this is because LightSwitch is still in beta (as of this writing on 5/31/11) but from our research and testing, it seems that the documentation in the following article is correct: " Publishing a 3-tier application requires that you have...
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IIS’s ApplicationPoolIdentity Made Easy-Week 22 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Managing Windows users for IIS security can sometimes be a pain and, if not handled correctly, can leave your server vulnerable. In this week’s video I introduce the new ApplicationPoolIdentity account that was introduced in IIS 7.0 and improved in IIS...
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This Week’s Link List (May 27, 2011) by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Based on my reading list this week, you can infer that I was either very busy with other work or that I was goofing off more than I should have. Since my manager may be reading this, I’ll go with “very busy”. Highlights include Ben Waine...
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New Version of Windows Azure SDK for PHP (v 3.0) Available by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

The Interoperability Team at Microsoft announced today that the production-ready 3.0 version of the Windows Azure SDK is now available. You can read about the details of the release here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2011/05/26/new...
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New SDK and Sample Kit demonstrates how to leverage the scalability of Windows Azure with PHP by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

From the floor of the PHP Tek Conference in Chicago, with my colleague Peter Laudati , we’re excited to announce the availability of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP version 3.0 . This Open Source SDK gives PHP developers a “speed dial” library to take full...

Help Test Cytanium's Site Cloud by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Go get a free Site Cloud test account and check it out. You can upload content using WebMatrix or Visual Studio ... or deploy any of the Web Application Gallery applications directly from the control panel. Set up multiple sites. Set up multiple instances...
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New Addition to Windows Phone Quickstarts- Pivot and Panorama Controls by Silverlight SDK

Windows Phone 7 includes Panorama and Pivot controls that you can use to display controls and data and navigate through them using their built-in swipe and pan gestures. To help you understand these controls we have added a new quickstart to our existing...
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Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta now available! by Silverlight SDK

The Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta released today. Download them here . The tools enable you to get started developing applications for the next version of Windows Phone 7 Codenamed "Mango" and leverage new phone features while continuing...
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Consuming OData via JSP in Windows Azure by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A colleague recently asked me if I knew anything about consuming OData from a Java deployment in Windows Azure. My answer at the time was “no”, but with a quick pointer to http://code.google.com/p/odata4j/ I know the answer would soon change...
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Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th by ScottGu's Blog

The (awesome) UK developer community is holding another all day event with Steve Sanderson and me in London on June 6th.  The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden).  The website for the...
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IIS 7.0/7.5’s Hidden Tool. Run-time page request performance data-Week 21 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Black box troubleshooting is very difficult.  What I mean by that, is that if you can’t see what’s happening, it’s extra difficult to troubleshoot.  For us administrators, or developers needing to troubleshooting something on a live server,...
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This Week’s Link List (May 20, 2011) by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Working on posts for next week didn’t prevent me from doing my weekly reading. Lot’s of interesting news related to Microsoft interoperability with open source technologies, as well as good stuff from this week’s TechEd conference in...
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10 Mistakes To Avoid In Setting Up An E-commerce Site by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

According to SearchEngineJournal.com, the main things to avoid in setting up an e-commerce site are: 1. Complicated Checkout 2. Bad Payment Gateway 3. Information Overload 4. No Product Information 5. Not having a good return policy & terms 6. Not...
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Upcoming Conference talks in Norway, Germany and the UK by ScottGu's Blog

Next month I’ll be in Europe giving presentations at some great .NET conferences.   Below are details on the three conferences I’m presenting at: Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC 2011) I’ll be in Oslo, Norway for the NDC 2011 conference...
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Using Piwik Real Time Web Analytics on IIS by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A month ago I have stopped using Google Analytics for my site and instead gave a try to Piwik – an open source, PHP/MySQL based real time web analytics application. Since then it has been working well for my site and overall to me it looks like a better...
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