Still don’t have Windows 7 RC? Get it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx This tools can help you manage your Windows 7 RC environment: Microsoft® Assessment and Planning Toolkit The Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit makes it easy for you to assess your current IT infrastructure in preparation for a Windows 7 migration. It includes the features previously provided with the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Solution Accelerator, and delivers both system-wide readiness reports and drill-downs to specific PCs. Application Compatibility Toolkit The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0 is a lifecycle management tool that helps you identify and manage your overall application portfolio. The toolkit...

Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui Web & Cloud Platform and asp.net hosting leader DiscountASP.NET signed a partnership agreement under which customers of both companies can benefit from special mutual offers. At this point, DiscountASP.NET customers can receive a $50 discount on the Visual WebGui Professional studio while Visual WebGui users can get 6 months free hosting for the first year of DiscountASP.NET’s base ASP.NET hosting annual plan. "DiscountASP.NET recognizes that Visual WebGui...( read more ) Read More...

In the second half of April I got an Email from Patrick Smacchia . I was very surprised, I mean, I’ve follow Patrick’s blog for some time and I though “this guy is really smart” so I was excited about getting in touch with him (starting from his side by the way), and while I’ve heard of his product Visual NDepend , I’ve actually never tried it and neither paid too much attention about the product itself. It was embarrassing because he was kind enough to offer me a Pro License to try it, evaluate it and see if it was functional and useful for me. I said “Yes! Of course!”. Then started doing some research and reading and found about what was it for and how could I use it. Around that time, Scott Hanselman did his Hanselminutes Podcast 163 - Software...

The AJAX Control Toolkit is an incredibly popular set of controls that enable you to easily add JavaScript functionality to an ASP.NET application. The AJAX Control Toolkit has consistently been one of the top three most popular downloads from CodePlex Read More......( read more ) Read More...

When I was initially contemplating how to go about restricting Sueetie blog comments to Registered Users I thought I'd use a smart placeholder control to display or hide the comment form.  While I went another route on blog comments, the Sueetie UserRolePlaceHolder took form as a very useful control, the first of several Sueetie "smart" PlaceHolders we'll no doubt be seeing.  To demonstrate the UserRolePlaceHolder I added a simple welcome greeting to registered users on the Sueetie.org home page.  By contrast, anonymous users don't see the message.   As I've said a number of times, simplicity is the cornerstone of Sueetie architecture, and I think it's exemplified in the new UserRolePlaceHolder...

ASP.NET pages that use AJAX components make usually many requests to server per one page to load all required JavaScript and CSS files. Connections, like all other real time resources, are most expensive to create and keep. If we can somehow decrease the number of requests per page load then we need less server resources for same amount of users. For ASP.NET forms we can use script combining, for ASP.NET MVC applications we can use ASP.NET MVC Client-side Resource Combine . MVC Resource Combine is open-source project you can find in CodePlex . ASP.NET official ScriptManager needs server-side form as a container. This means that all scripts are loaded in the body of page. I have found no way how to make ScriptManager to create script and other...

High Drama for Free. Chris Anderson gets spanked big-time after plagiarizing wikipedia in bulk for his upcoming book, “Free.” This Virginia Quarterly Review post lists the copied excerpts. The initial explanation for the omission was that neither Anderson nor his editors were confident in how to properly annotate wikipedia bibliographic citations, so they simply decided not to. This is, of course, a bullshit excuse. Anderson quickly apologized. If he hadn’t I’d still be buying the book. The best summary of the brouhaha is from Valeria Maltoni in Right Place, Right Time. “Chris Anderson says free is the future of a radical price , Malcolm Gladwell says it's priced to sell but doubts that free is the future, Seth Godin says Malcolm is wrong...

The forth episode of “Geeks on a role”, the show presented for Web & Visual WebGui developers, was released. This episode focuses on gateways and how you can use them in your application. You can view the new episode following this link: A practicle guide to gateways...( read more ) Read More...

Microsoft has great virtual labs available, but it takes some time to get in there. If you just want the lab notes, type the following in Google: site:download.microsoftvirtuallabs.com filetype:pdf or just follow this link . Read More...

Man, I've been getting so tired of those losers who try to boost their SEO rating by squirting their comments on my blogs like some disgusting bodily function.  You know the ones, "I was very interested to know this information about you, and I really liked your blog. have a nice day!"  Yeah, you too, ***. BlogEngine.NET has hidden captcha that blocks 100% of all automated comment spam attempts, but it doesn't prevent people from manually typing in some inane comment with a link back to their wares.  Beyond the excellent captcha in BlogEngine.NET, you can close comments after a certain period and you can turn comments off altogether, but that's it.  We, on the other hand, have the Sueetie Framework available...