Web and Cloud

My BeginRead never calls my callback function, please help!

2012-05-24T23:26:00Z

So you have decided to do some awesome async network communication and you have settled about using NetworkStream, in System.Net.Sockets namespace. Perhaps the most important reason to choose NetworkStream over other encapsulations of socket communication Read More......(read more)

OSBC 2012: Advancing Interoperability in the Cloud

2012-05-21T19:08:00Z

At the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco today, Sandy Gupta, the General Manager for Microsoft’s Open Solutions Group, along with Alan Clark, Director of New Initiatives and Emerging Standards for Open Source at SUSE, announced the Read More......(read more)

Roku releases support for Smooth Streaming

2012-05-15T20:50:49Z

At NAB 2012 in April, we announced an initial list of partners that licensed Smooth Streaming Client Porting Kit ( link ). Today, Roku announced that the support for Smooth Streaming is publicly available for Roku 2, Roku LT and Roku HD devices with version Read More......(read more)

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2012-05-15T20:38:06Z

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Introducing Testing Domain - localtest.me

2012-05-14T15:59:54Z

Save this URL, memorize it, write it on a sticky note, tweet it, tell your colleagues about it! localtest.me ( http://localtest.me ) and *.localtest.me ( http://something.localtest.me ) If you do any testing on your local system you’ve probably Read More......(read more)

FreeBSD to run as a first-class guest on Windows Server Hyper-V

2012-05-11T18:35:00Z

Today, at BSDCan 2012 , Microsoft and partners NetApp and Citrix announced upcoming native support for FreeBSD support on Windows Server Hyper-V. This move continues our commitment to extend support across platforms to the Windows Server Hyper-V solution Read More......(read more)

URL Scan or Request Filtering in IIS7

2012-05-01T18:40:51Z

URL Scan has been a useful tool since Windows Server 2003, and continues to be used on many web server deployments. Did you know though that IIS7 includes a feature named Request Filtering that handles the same functionality as URL … Read more » Read More......(read more)

Application Initialization Part 2

2012-05-01T16:38:00Z

In my last post , I gave a bit of background on the Application Warm-Up module , now called Application Initialization. This week, I would like to go into more detail as to what the Application Initialization module does, and how you should think about Read More......(read more)

Windows Server 2012, IIS8, ASP.NET 3.5 and issue installing behind firewall (without internet)

2012-04-28T03:35:23Z

I’ve been starting to become familiar with Windows Server 2012 (aka Win8). I’ve been a server “guy” for several years and when new versions come out, especially with another version of IIS. My interest is peaked to evaluate new features. This blog post Read More......(read more)

Here’s to the first release from MS Open Tech: Redis on Windows

2012-04-26T19:01:00Z

The past few weeks have been very busy in our offices as we announced the creation of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc . Now that the dust has settled it’s time for us to resume our regular cadence in releasing code, and we are happy to share with Read More......(read more)

More news from MS Open Tech: announcing the open source Metro style theme for jQuery Mobile

2012-04-26T19:00:00Z

Starting today, the Metro style theme for JQuery Mobile , the popular open source mobile user interface framework, is available for download on GitHub and can be used as a NuGet package in Visual Studio . The theme enables HTML5 pages to adapt automatically Read More......(read more)

Configuring FTP Client Certificate Authentication in FTP 7

2012-04-26T11:36:30Z

We had a customer question the other day about configuring FTP Client Certificate Authentication in FTP 7.0 and in FTP 7.5. It had been a while since the last time that I had configured those settings on an FTP server, so I thought that it would be great Read More......(read more)

NxtGenUG Manchester Slides

2012-04-23T21:59:17Z

Thanks to all the attendees who came to my talk on IIS8 last week at NxtGenUG Manchester Daresbury. Apologies for the delay in posting the slides, you can now get them on my Slides & Resources page and the direct link for the IIS 8 Presentation Read More......(read more)

Orchard: Custom Content in Sub-Folders

2012-04-23T14:53:36Z

Orchard doesn’t seem to like anything in it’s web root except for it’s own content. Try it out – create a folder (I created /TestContent/) and then put a test from there (I created test.html) and try to access it. … Read Read More......(read more)

Extensibility Updates in the FTP 8.0 Service

2012-04-20T10:49:00Z

A few years ago I wrote a blog that was titled " FTP 7.5 Service Extensibility References ", in which I discussed the extensibility APIs that we added in FTP 7.5. Over the next couple of years I followed that initial blog with a series of walkthroughs Read More......(read more)