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As promised here is the second part of my MIX blog from yesterday . I planned on doing this from my hotel room this morning but I got in too late after the MIX party and had to sleep in a bit. But that is the great thing about MIX; you get to learn about some incredibly interesting technology during the day and then at night, meet and talk with the people building and using that technology. Delivering a more media-rich experience through your Web site is certainly an interesting technical topic that was popular to discuss at MIX. IIS7 and Windows Media Services can both be a big part of your site’s media solution and since I work on both of these technologies, I tried to attend as many sessions as I could on the topic. The media session I got a chance to attend on Monday was DEV13 - Creating and Delivering Rich Media and Video on the Web with Silverlight, Microsoft Expression Studio, and Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" (Check back on this link, there should be a video recording of the...
It’s Day 2 of MIX07 and I finally have some time to stop and reflect on the whirlwind of announcements, sessions, dinners, and parties that have inundated us for the last 36 hours or so. In case you aren’t familiar with this conference, MIX07 is an annual event where developers, designers, business people, various technorati, analysts, partners, customers and Microsofties converge on Vegas to have “72 hour conversation” about the technologies and business models delivering the “next web now.” No surprise, the IIS team has gotten itself involved again this year. I had the pleasure to attend two sessions yesterday by members of the IIS product group covering what developers of Web and media sites can get from IIS7 and Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3 today. Since they were both very cool and I have a lot to say about them, I will need to split this into a two part post. You’ll get the second one tomorrow, here’s part 1. So after the awesome Ray Ozzie/Scott Guthrie keynote announcing Silverlight...
All the credit for the SQL logging module demo goes to CarlosAg . He built it for an internal Microsoft conference, and I stole it for my MIX talk. It is a great demo because it shows off something you can only do with IIS7 and the integrated pipeline. I love it! You'll want to prepare for this demo by doing the following: Download and install Visual Studio Web Developer Express Download and install SQL Server Express (as part of the previous install) Download and install the SQL Server Management Studio Express Make sure you're running on Vista with IIS7 installed (including ASP.NET or at least .NET extensibility). To start with, let's build a simple module with hard coded connection string. First, let's create the database. Open SQL Server Management Studio, and run the following script as 'sa'. (you'll want to enable the sa account first to make this work, and you may need to edit the physical path below to one that exists on your machine) USE [master] GO /****** Object: Database [techready...
I got a lot of requests for the presentation and demo notes from my session at MIX, so here goes. If you're interested in the slides, You can download the PPT here. If you want to try the SQL Logging Module, I've also attached my wwwroot directory in the state it was in at the end of the demo (working), which includes the sqlLogging_schema.xml file you'll need to copy to the \windows\system32\inetsrv\config\schema directory. You'll also need to create your log table using the createDB.sql file. For a complete step-by-step walkthrough, see this post . All the credit for the SQL logging module demo goes to CarlosAg . Without his work, you would have had to see my photo DirListModule again. :) If you're interested in the PHP demos, you should check out this previous post , which includes videos (at the bottom) of the PHP related demos. I'll write-up a separate post on step-by-step instructions soon. thanks, I hope you enjoyed the talk! Read More...
For those of you that care to follow this stuff, check out my Mix07 updates on Twitter , my pictures on Flickr , and my errr... other stuff on Facebook . Read More...
I just watched some of the coolest demos I've seen in a while. Ray Ozzie gave the opening keynote address for Mix 07. I hate to say it but he stated nothing more than the obvious direction of technology, IMHO. Ray's address was quickly followed by Scott Guthrie who received a very warm greeting -- and rightly so! Scott was there to deliver the goodies which were also received very warmly. There were plenty of announcements about Silverlight and the driection we are headed there. The big impressive thing we announced was our cross-platform CLR support and the integration of .NET into Silverlight as a programming model. I loved watching the demo's of using Expression to create the user experience and Visual Studio to provide the remote debugging support -- on a Mac none-the-less! This is already all too cool for words. I can't wait to see what else is coming up next. Oh wait, that would be Bill Staples demonstration of IIS 7 for developers. If you are at Mix, come join me in room 4101A to...
In just a few short hours, I'll be heading to Las Vegas to attend Mix 07 . I'm not sure what to expect but I'm very excited to see our customers in person. I'm probably one of the few who doesn't really enjoy Vegas. However, this time will be different because I'll have the conference to go to. (I'm just wondering if my 18-year-old version of myself is shaking his head at that last statement). In any case, if you are heading to Mix and want to get together to talk about IIS 7, ping me and I'll do my best to find you. If you aren't heading to Mix, but want to catch all the excitement, check out the excitement on the visitmix.com website. Read More...
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