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Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform. This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out. Here is a quick overview: IIS Search Engine Optimization v1 final release! The IIS team shipped the final release of IIS SEO toolkit which makes it easier to optimize your Website for search engines . It acts like a mini-search engine on your computer, scans your site and then provides useful tips for how to improve the relevance of your site to search engines. This tool is now out of beta and available for download through Web PI . ASP.NET MVC 2 beta! The ASP.NET team has been hard at work on the second release of MVC, which is now available to beta test. Phil has a great blog post on the release with links to the download page, readme notes and the source code . There are a bunch of new features in MVC 2 including AsyncController, expression based helpers, improvements...
Today we announce the general availability of the Windows Cache Extension for PHP 1.0 (affectionately known as “WinCache”), which is an open source built-for-Windows caching extension to the PHP engine. You can view, contribute and download the source code for WinCache at the PHP repository for extensions ( http://pecl.php.net/package/WinCache ), where we have joined other Linux-based PHP caches . I wanted to thank Pierre Joye for his invaluable help in helping connect the IIS product team with PECL, and for agreeing to host the WinCache binaries on http://windows.php.net . We cordially invite the PHP development community to join us in development of this caching extension for PHP on Windows. We already have gotten one contribution from the community in our pre-release mode and are very excited to have others join this new PHP on Windows caching community. The IIS team at Microsoft is going to start off the v2.0 development by adding a user cache and lazy class loading to the opcode cache...
Today, IIS launched the IIS SEO Toolkit 1.0 , a free, fully supported extension to IIS7 that makes it easy for you to build and maintain Web sites optimized for search engines and site quality. In a world where thousands of new Web sites appear on the Internet every month, it is more important than ever to provide a Web destination that is easily discoverable by search engines. Users have a tremendous amount of choice on Web sites today, and poor site quality, like slow response time and broken links, will end up costing you site visitors and visits. Developers and site administrators can download the IIS SEO Toolkit today using Web Platform Installer or directly from the Microsoft Download Center , and start optimizing any Web sites on Windows (ASP.NET, HTML, ASP, or PHP). The IIS SEO Toolkit installs and runs on IIS 7.x , which is the Microsoft Web server shipped as part of Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you are a site administrator , you...
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...
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