April 2011 - Posts
One of the demos in my Mix 11 talk " An Overview of the MS Web Stack of Love " was showing how IIS Express and Visual Studio SP1 (as well as WebMatrix) can make working with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) a heck of a lot easier. If you've used Cassini before (that's the little built in Visual Web Developer Server) you've likely noticed that I doesn't support SSL. This makes working with real world sites a little challenging. If you want your Login pages and Account Management pages to use secure sockets, you'd typically have to do all your work with the full version of IIS, either installed on your own machine or using a shared server. Here's a few ways to enable SSL. The first is new in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and...
Scott and Phil sit down to talk about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update. Have you updated? That button up there will automatically check your system for SP1, as well as get you IIS Express, SQL Compact and basically the whole "Web Stack of Love." That's the official "install it all" button. It's a great way to get a fresh machine ready to develop with. Don't worry, it won't install VS Express if you have VS already. That said, if you're paranoid, you can just download the MVC 3 installer . Download: MP3 Full Show Links: http://www.asp.net/mvc - All new MVC site with Pluralsight videos for free and new Learning Resources http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3 - Release notes and info on the MVC 3 release NOTE: If...
Hey, have you implemented the NuGet Action Plan ? Get on it, it'll take only 5 minutes: NuGet Action Plan - Upgrade to 1.2, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer . NuGet 1.2 is out, so make sure you're set to automatically update! The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is starting to fill up that I should start looking for gems (no pun intended) in there. You know, really useful stuff that folks might otherwise not find. I'll look for mostly open source projects, ones I think are really useful. I'll look at how they built their NuGet packages, if there's anything interesting about the way the designed the out of the box experience (and anything they could do to make it better...
I’m excited to announce a new release of the Ajax Control Toolkit which you can download immediately from: http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/ In this release, we concentrated on making improvements in three areas: Fixing compatibility issues between Internet Explorer 9 and the Ajax Control Toolkit Improving the RoundedCorners extender to take advantage of CSS 3 Improving the DropShadow extender to take advantage of CSS 3 The steps for installing the Ajax Control Toolkit are detailed (with video) here: http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act.ashx Improved RoundedCorner Extender You can use the Ajax Control Toolkit RoundedCorners extender to modify a standard ASP.NET Panel control so that it has rounded corners: Here’s the code used to create...
Such a fun time was had at Mix 11 this last week in Vegas. I only saw a few talks as I was busy presenting, but now as I sit at home on my first day back, I say to myself, Self, how can I get all the Mix videos at once? First, you can watch all the videos online at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11 Second, you can get them via RSS. Most major browsers are hiding the RSS button these days, but the discovery metadata is all still there. In IE9, for example, if you show the Command Bar, you can see the RSS Feeds for the Mix site: What's all this awesomeness? Oh, yes, it's the Mix talks via RSS with enclosures, just as you've always wanted. Now you can list the thousand ways that you might retrieve these lovely files and...
It's Day 1 of the Mix 11 conference here in Las Vegas. I work for the Web Platform and Tools (that's ASP.NET, IIS, IIS Media, etc) group and I did the Web Platform demos for Scott Guthrie's part of the keynote. A lot of people in Dev and QA worked hard all year long to make some fun and cool products and as the designated "talking head," I had just 16 minutes to make all of them (people + products) look good. I hope I did them all justice. We built a backend and a front end for Rob and my sie http://www.thisdeveloperslife.com . The show is something Rob Conery and I do moonlighting on the side (it's our hobby, not our job nor a Microsoft thing) but we needed a new site and this was a fun idea since we built the original...
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