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What is worth noting in WebMatrix 2

2012-02-11T01:24:00Z

If I have to summarize in what is worth noting in WebMatrix 2 so far, here is how I would like to put it: Inspiring Environment – Web development is an inspiring task and I believe having an inspiring environment for it is important. In WebMatrix we have always aspired to give web developers a polished and fresh environment to achieve mundane tasks. Some interesting things worth noting in WebMatrix 2 from this standpoint are: App Install Workflow – We aspired to ask almost zero...(read more)

One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell

2012-02-01T01:17:39Z

For the most part, I'm an ASP.NET developer. I don't need to specify MVC or Web Forms, because it's all One ASP.NET its core. My apps are often hybrids and include not just Web Forms or MVC but also SignalR and Web API. Web Forms often gets picked on because of large View State, weird markup or maybe folks don't like the controls model. However, Web Forms has its place and it's getting even better with .NET 4.5. Here's a little sneak peek of some cool ideas Damian Edwards...(read more)

KB2650605 QFE : VS2010 sp1 VB web form editor may not become editable during debugging

2012-01-31T23:45:00Z

We recently released a VS2010 sp1 QFE KB2650605 to solve a VB editor debugging problem. During VB web form debugging, VB web form may become un-editable if there are server tags inside. If you develop and debug VB web forms, you might be interested to download this QFE. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=40811 Best regards, Xinyang Qiu Web Platforms and Tools Team Read More......(read more)

About Orchard Governance and Microsoft

2012-01-30T08:29:03Z

Back in September, we did something with Orchard that is kind of a big deal: we transferred control over the Orchard project to the community. Most Open Source projects that were initiated by corporations such as Microsoft are nowadays still governed by that corporation. They may have an open license, they may take patches and contributions, they may have given the copyright to some non-profit foundation, but for all practical purposes, it’s still that corporation that controls the project and makes...(read more)

TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands

2012-01-30T05:30:47Z

I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Belgium and Dutch TechDays next month. I’ll be doing three tech talks at each of the events: Overview of Windows Azure A look at ASP.NET MVC 4 ScottGu Unplugged I’m particularly excited about the “A look at ASP.NET MVC 4” talk as it will be the first time I’ve presented on it (and it is shaping up to a really great release – more blog posts on that soon). For more details on how to attend the event visit the Belgium Techdays and Dutch Techdays websites. ...(read more)

Now, more than ever, you need a designer

2012-01-25T06:52:53Z

Before joining Microsoft, I was a consultant, primarily building desktop applications using a variety of MS technologies. During my last couple years there, Silverlight was a large part of that both for full apps and as parts of larger web sites. Prior to that, it was WPF, Windows Forms, VB, HTML and even SharePoint. tl;dr: The point of this long post is not to show you examples of good design or pick apart existing designs. I'm not really qualified to do that. However, I can point out the need...(read more)

Getting Started with Windows Azure

2012-01-20T02:24:32Z

This is the second in a series of posts I’m doing on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform. In today’s post I’m going to cover how to sign-up and get started with Windows Azure using a no-obligation 3 month free trial offer. This free trial costs nothing and doesn’t obligate you to buy anything at the end of it. It provides an easy way to try out and get started with Windows Azure. Windows Azure Website The http://www.windowsazure.com web-site provides everything...(read more)

Diving Deep: ASP.NET Membership and the new Universal Providers

2012-01-16T10:53:47Z

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“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (Jan 16th)

2012-01-12T05:08:00Z

This coming Monday (Jan 16th) I’m doing another online LIDNUG session . The talk will be from 10am to 11:30am (Pacific Time). I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun. Attendees can ask any questions they want to me, and listen to me answer them live via LiveMeeting. We usually end up having some really good discussions on a wide variety of topics. Any topic is fair game: technical, strategy, community, college basketball, etc. You can learn...(read more)

ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Thursday, Dec 29th

2011-12-29T04:59:54Z

A few minutes ago Microsoft released an advance notification security bulletin announcing that we are releasing an out-of-band security update to address an ASP.NET Security Vulnerability . The security update we are releasing resolves a publicly disclosed Denial of Service issue present in all versions of ASP.NET. We’re currently unaware of any attacks on ASP.NET customers using this exploit, but we strongly encourage customers to deploy the update as soon as possible. We are releasing...(read more)

"What is WebMatrix?" in conversation with Sarvashrestha Paliwal on Web Technologies

2011-12-19T16:33:04Z

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Slides and Code from my VSLive Silverlight 5, REST, WCF Web API, MVC talk

2011-12-15T21:13:05Z

This talk was an adaptation of two chapters from Silverlight 5 in Action. I started with a brief explanation of REST, and then explained the solution we were going to build during the session. The idea was to show how you can use REST in place of the heavier Soap approach in many cases, and make your services accessible to far more clients. I also showed how to share model objects between various implementations of .NET, using linked files and conditional compilation. Without watching the session...(read more)

EFProviders require MultipleActiveResultSets=True for System.Data.SqlClient connection strings

2011-12-13T09:55:03Z

I was playing with the new Membership API (System.Web.Providers) for the upcoming Virtual TechDays While I was trying out a lot of options for using as DB store, one of the obvious choices was SQL Azure. With SQL Azure, I could offload the Database hosting capabilities to Azure and just focus on my application code. Of course, it comes at a cost and SQL Azure is a subscription based database available in different sizes and rates there of. One of the challenges I faced was, working with the Membership...(read more)

Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday (Dec 13th)

2011-12-07T22:29:39Z

As some of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the last 6 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to work on ASP.NET, .NET, VS and a bunch of other products). Next Tuesday, Dec 13th we’ll be holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event either by watching it streamed LIVE online, or by attending in person...(read more)

What’s the deal with Orchard and NuGet? Does Orchard suck?

2011-12-07T02:34:02Z

Damn, Rob saw right through the PR lies of Phil Haack about the new NuGet gallery and figured it all out. Kidding, kidding. For your enjoyment and context, here is Rob’s post: http://wekeroad.com/2011/12/06/nuget-and-orchard/ Phil made a thoughtful answer to the post where he gives the rationale behind the decision: http://wekeroad.com/2011/12/06/nuget-and-orchard/#comment-380571113 What I want to address here is what that means (or not) about Orchard. “Why wasn’t it fast before?” Because by default...(read more)