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The ASP.NET and Web tools for Visual Studio teams have been cranking away on this release all year long and we’re excited to launch Beta 2 today! MSDN subscribers can download it today …it will be available for everyone on Wednesday. There are a ton of new features in this release, this MSDN page gives a good overview. Here are some highlights for Web developers: Numerous improvements to Web Forms including more control over viewstate, meta tag control, new browser support, routing support for clean URLs , more control over HTML with FormView and ListView controls, filtering support in data source controls, better Web standards support and accessibility New Dynamic Data features including a RAD experience for quickly building a data-driven site, automatic validation, field template support for GridView and DetailsView controls. Visual Studio has undergone a face lift and now supports simpler, code optimized view , multi-mon support , enhanced multi-targeting and...
The ASP.NET team has been cranking away on more AJAX goodness…this time with a significant update to the Microsoft Ajax Library – Preview 6. This update includes updates to our client-side AJAX library that can be used with any type of Web application as well as deep support within ASP.NET for AJAX across ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0…for both Web Forms and MVC style projects. In addition to the updated AJAX support, the team is shipping a cool new AJAX minifier tool which reduces the size of your JavaScript files to improve performance. You can download the release from the CodePlex project and read more information on the team blogs below: Scott – Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library… Bertrand – Entirely unobtrusive and imperative templates… James – How the Script Loader…will make your life wonderful Also check out the Channel9 interview with Stephen Walther on the new release! Enjoy ~ Read More...
Just ran into this and thought I’d share. If you are trying to connect to SQL Server from your Web application running on Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 and you’re getting a message that looks like this: Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to failure in retrieving the user's local application data path. Please make sure the user has a local user profile on the computer. The connection will be closed. I can probably help you out. The IIS team made a change to the default identity of the worker process. Starting with IIS 7.5, Application Pools run with a unique identity based on the Application Pool name, rather than NetworkService – the default identity for IIS6 and IIS7. The primary reason for this change is to increase the security of IIS and Application Pools by default, providing a much better sandbox between Applications and other Windows services by default. Unfortunately, the new identity does not have a user profile, and as you...
I am very proud to announce our September 2009 release of IIS Web extensions! This September launch includes the RTW release of Web Deploy 1.0 , Web Platform Installer 2.0 , and IIS Database Manager 1.0 , as well as the pre-release versions of Application Request Routing 2.0 RC and Search Engine Optimizer (SEO) Toolkit Beta 2.0 . We are also releasing international support for a number of IIS extensions and the Windows Web Application Gallery. Along with these engineering releases, we are proud to make available Website Spark , a business program that makes it easy and affordable for Web development professionals to use the Microsoft Web platform. Quick Start to What Important For You In This September Release As a “quick start” to the IIS September 2009 releases, if you are… A Web developer , you will be interested in Web Platform Installer to easily get the Microsoft Web stack as well as free community applications from the Windows Web Application Gallery , Web Deploy for application...
Today we’re launching a number of really cool things for Web developers. WebsiteSpark WebsiteSpark is a program designed to jumpstart Web development for individuals or small companies who make a living on the Web. The program is free to join and runs for three years with no cost obligations other than a $100 program fee, payable on exit. What is in it for you? Windows Web Server 2008 R2 – 4 processor licenses for production use! SQL Server 2008 – 4 processor licenses for production use! Expression Studio 3 – 1 license including Expression Web, Blend and Sketchflow Expression Web – 2 licenses Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition – 3 licenses DotNetPanel control panel (to manage your servers, and allow your customers to manage their site!) Beyond just software you also get free support, training and Microsoft will even help drive business your way. Anyone can join as long as 1) you build web sites or applications for other people and 2) your company has less than...
I am always amazed at the passion and energy that open source contributors put into what is often their “night job” after whatever they do to pay the bills. It is that passion that has driven a vibrant community of PHP open source applications that ranges from on-line learning to shopping carts. Those PHP applications are in turn driving the development of Web sites all over the world. We want to ensure that Windows Server is a first class platform for those PHP Web sites and applications. We took the first step in this direction with IIS6 and IIS7, which is part of Windows Server and the Windows client operating systems. We provided a critical platform component called FastCGI . FastCGI first shipped as a Web download for IIS6 in November 2007 and is also included as part of the IIS installation in Windows Server 2008 and later. FastCGI provides reliable hosting of PHP applications with better performance than any previous Windows Server operating system. This app hosting support in the...
I just wrapped up a series of videocasts that target developers and users who want to experience a simplified deployment experience for apps and the Web stack on Windows, focusing particularly on open source community applications in the Windows Web Application Gallery. If you are a developer and want to.... make sure that you have the latest Microsoft Web platform tools (including the Microsoft Web server, applications and frameworks, database andtools, as well as PHP), watch the Staying Current with the Latest Web Platform with Web Platform Installer videocast (7 minutes). add required Web Deployment tool integration for the Windows Web App Gallery and/or simplify installation on Windows, watch Adding Web Deployment Tool Support to Community Application Zip Packages (12 minutes). This video explains how to add Web Deployment Tool manifest files to a community application zip file (WordPress in this case) for easier deployment on Windows. find a community application that deploys easily...
If you package your application in ZIP format, you can add Web Deployment Tool support to simplify the installation of your application on Windows. Our open source application partners (ASP.NET apps like DotNetNuke and PHP apps like WordPress) add this Web Deployment Tool integration as part of being included in the Windows Web Application Gallery (as defined in the Web App Gallery Principles ). This 12 minute videocast shows you how to: Start from a WordPress zip package without Web Deployment Tool support from the WordPress community site . Look at and add manifest.xml, parameters.xml and install.sql files to the WordPress package. Import the new modified WordPress package using the IIS7 Manager (the new "Manage Packages" action, powered by Web Deployment Tool). This validates that the WordPress app deploys easily and works using the Web Deployment tool integration for the new WordPress package. ' /> HTTP streaming brought to you by IIS Smooth Streaming . Read More.....
If you have been plugged into what has happened across the Microsoft Web Platform in the last two years, you will have noticed a new focus on delivering free Web releases that extend the core functionality of the Microsoft Web stack. We do this all the time in IIS. We build IIS Web extensions on the IIS7 platform (which ships in Windows Server 2008) to open up new capabilities on the Web server across media, request serving, management and administration, and security. Customers can download our extensions onto IIS7 (and sometimes IIS6) as a free, fully supported product that expands the IIS7 Web server in new directions. Getting new functionality every three to six months on the Web server is a good thing but it can be hard to track when a new release comes out. The Web Platform Installer helps centralize a single discovery point for the Microsoft Web Platform -- Web server ( IIS ), application frameworks ( ASP.NET and PHP ), database ( SQL ), and tools ( Visual Web Developer ). The Web...
Many Web site developers start development from an open source application as the base for a custom Web site. There are many high quality open source applications out there that make it much easier to put together a content, ecommerce, social network and/or community Web site. IIS offers a couple features that make your life a lot easier if you want to do this: Find the open source application on the Windows Web Application Gallery . Download and install the open source application on IIS using Web Platform Installer (you can check out this screencast to see a demo for this). Customize the app in the way you see fit. Package your application using the Web Deployment Tool support in the IIS7 Manager. Connect to a remote Web server from your development computer to remotely administer the IIS7 server using IIS Manager. (Thanks to Chris Morrow at MaximumASP for letting us use one of his dedicated Windows Server 2008 servers for our demo.) Import the customized application's package on...
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