We recently released a set of Silverlight "How-to" videos online. This includes Scott Guthrie's keynote demo at Mix07 which shows off how to create a Silverlight 1.1 application using the Visual Studio add-in for Silverlight. This is also a good time to let you all know that we have had ASP.Net videos and ASP.Net AJAX videos available for a while now. Do send us your feedback on these videos. We'll be adding more from time to time, so do check back. -- Bash Read More...

Last month I started a blog post series covering LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapping) framework that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to easily model relational databases using .NET classes. You can then use LINQ expressions to query the database with them, as well as update/insert/delete data from it. Below are the first two parts of my LINQ to SQL series: Part 1: Introduction to LINQ to SQL Part 2: Defining our Data Model Classes In today's blog post I'll be going into more detail on how to use the data model we created in the Part 2 post, and show how to use it to query data within an ASP.NET project. Northwind Database Modeled using LINQ to SQL In Part 2 of this series I walked...

Did you know that Microsoft is investing in Second Life? That is right... we recently bought an island and have developed it with some really cool stuff. Check out the details here https://www.visualstudioisland.com/ I am all for new, cutting edge stuff, so I volunteered to do a talk in the brand new auditorium we build there on the island. Not sure exactly what I am going to say yet, or really how I am going to say it... any tips would be really helpful as I am brand new to Second Life... It turns out there is quite a bit going on the island. Check out of few events: All times are PST.... 7/31 4:30 PM - Amanda Silver from VB fame will give a talk on Silverlight and VB.NET 8/21 4:00 PM - "Summer Luau" party... I can't wait to see what this is...

People who use VS 2005 to debug ASP.NET applications running in IIS7 on Windows Vista can encounter one of the following error messages when they press F5 to auto-attach the debugger in the IDE: "An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server." "Debugging failed because integrated Windows authentication is not enabled." "Authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server. Try disabling 'Digest authentication'" The above errors occur because of the way that VS 2005 looks up the Process ID of the IIS7 worker process that ASP.NET is running within. Specifically, when you use F5 to "auto attach" the debugger with Visual Studio it sends an HTTP request to ASP.NET using Windows Authentication to retrieve...

I am pleased to announce that Windows Media Services (WMS) package for Windows Server 2008 June CTP is now live! With this package, WMS is now supported on Web SKU ( Windows Web Server 2008) as well. This package is available for all beta participants who have access to the June CTP . Download Location http://connect.microsoft.com/windows/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=7364 Read More...

Microsoft.com is the 5 th most trafficked site in the world, 4 th most in the US. The site is supported by roughly 80 Web servers delivering content daily to around 287M unique users via +300k concurrent connections at a rate of over 10k requests per second. Despite such a heavy load, Microsoft.com is consistently the #1 most available site on the Internet as measured by Keynote. The Operations team for MSCom had been playing with IIS7 since its early beta builds and recently finished deploying the new Web server in Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 to all its production servers. To deploy a new operating system and new Web server into an environment like this without compromising performance or reliability is quite a feat. As the Technical Product...

Yep, the internet is on! I think most of the comments I got yesterday all revolved around the fact that I posted all my presentations in PPTX format. I work for Microsoft, and well, I use PowerPoint to create my presentations. I figured most people, even if they didn't have PowerPoint on their machines would at least have the viewer so they could see the slides, but it sounds like quite a few people would rather have a PDF or some other format. So, here you go! TechEd: Top 5 Web Blunders ReMIX: Building Your Own Video Site ReMIX: Implementing Rich UI ReMIX: A Tour Around VS2008 ReMIX: Search Engine Optimization for Rich Media Note that these are stored on my personal website, so I can't guarantee how long they'll last as they're not on an official...

ScriptDoc is a tool that extracts documentation from JavaScript files and packages it into XML files that can be consumed by documentation building tools such as SandCastle . The 1.0 version is now able to extract documentation from doc comments as well as from the structure of the code itself. It generates a documentation file that uses the same format as C# doc comment files and a reflection file that describes the structure of the object model and that follows the same schema that SandCastle is using. It is available under a Microsoft Permissive license on Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/scriptdoc Read More...

Thank you to those of you that offered such good suggestions on my recent hard disk crash . My wife and I learned a ton and I wanted to share some of that with you. The Problem On Friday morning we woke up to a bluescreen on our kitchen laptop (which is a Dell Insprion that is exactly 1 month out of warranty). We reboot is several times, hoping for different results... At this point the visions of our unbacked up data dance through our heads. We went and checked our OneCare backup and the most recent one was 6 weeks old, missing pictures from a trip to the beach, my youngest child's 2nd birthday party and the like. Panic sets in. We find the XP CD and boot off it into the recovery console and run chkdsk. It fails 60% of the way in with an “The...

First Netcraft report of IIS7: Windows Server 2008 sighted at www.microsoft.com and around the web . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...