January 2009 - Posts
A buddy of mine and I had a nice slap in the face yesterday. I was helping him deploy an ADO.NET Data Service to a large company's staging server and we were seeing REALLY odd behavior. We'd request something like /myservice.svc and get a 404. But we could request /myservice.svc/Stuff or /myservice.svc/?metadata. We settled in to debug this. We thought we were "getting down to basics." You know, you've done this. The conversation goes something like: "Ok, people, what's the definition of insanity? Trying the same thing and expecting a different result." "Right...let's challenge all our assumptions. Let's start from scratch. Can get Hello World working?" "What's the ACLs on...
Last November, Microsoft started a new program called BizSpark for startups that's pretty sweet. It's pretty not-too-evil also. If you are a small business and you sell a product or service to your customers, you might want to check it out. Here's the criteria: Actively engaged in development of a software-based product or service that will form a core piece of its current or intended business. Privately held, and in business for less than 3 years. Less than US $1 million in annual revenue. What do you get? Here's what you get from the program: Development Tools, Platform Technologies and Production Licenses All the software included in the Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System Team Suite (VSTS) with MSDN Premium subscription...
Today we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC). Click here to download it (note: the link just went live so if it isn’t working wait a few minutes for the server you are hitting to refresh). It works with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 (which is free). Today’s RC is the last public release of ASP.NET MVC that we’ll ship prior to the final “1.0” release. We expect to ship the final ASP.NET MVC 1.0 release next month. In addition to bug fixes, today’s build includes several new features. It also includes some refinements to existing features based on customer feedback. Please read the release notes that ship with the ASP.NET MVC download for full details on all changes. The...
There's lots of interesting stuff going on in the ASP.NET team, and you can usually learn/glean/figure out most of it (if you're interested) by poking around the Codeplex ASP.NET site. They update it all the time, and you can watch their thinking. They put all sorts of stuff up there, ideas they are floating, directions they are considering and (really early) previews of those ideas and directions in the form of code. It's not production ready, more brainstorming - that's why it's on CodePlex, and why they don't exactly advertise the heck out of it. There's a release of ASP.NET Dynamic Data 4.0 Preview 2 that was quietly put up just a month ago with this scary disclaimer: NOTE: These previews contains features that...
My teammate Stephen Walther launched the ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery a few weeks back. This stemmed from an idea ScottGu had to let the community change the default templates that ship with ASP.NET MVC . I was supposed to work on this but headed to Africa for the holidays so Stephen helped me out and took over the project and did a better job than I would have! You can vote on the designs that you like and that you don't like. You also can contribute new designs of your own. After you download a design from the gallery, you can use the design by following these steps: 1) Copy the files from DesignTemplateCS or DesignTemplateVB folder into your project (use DesignTemplateCS for C# projects and DesignTemplateVB for VB.NET projects) 2) Do a...
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