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Six Ways to Help Customers Extend their Web Sites

2009-09-24T15:26:23Z

Great news today, from ScottGu and the IIS team: Wow – do we have a bunch of announcements for you! If you care about Web sites, read on. From really cool media scenarios, to making it easy getting started on the Microsoft Web Platform, to advanced tweaks to your Web site – we have something for all walks of life to check out. Let’s cut to the chase. Today, Microsoft announced updates to six important IIS Extensions: · IIS Application Request Routing 2.0 RC adds support to enhance disk based cache...(read more)

Please help Microsoft in the effort to address the challenge of H1N1 in Schools

2009-09-16T23:27:00Z

Office Live Workspaces helped students continue their schoolwork while they stayed home during an outbreak of the swine flu. Address the classroom challenge of H1N1 If the H1N1 flu virus keeps your students away from the classroom, continue the learning online by using Office Live Workspace to: share assignments distribute handouts post presentations enable group collaboration Use this free online service to publish and share Microsoft Office Word documents, Office Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint...(read more)

Gabriola on Windows 7

2009-09-11T12:25:00Z

Simply awesome... If you've poked around your fonts list in Windows 7, you might have come across a display font called Gabriola. What you may not have known is that this font is an important first step in some additions to Windows. Gabriola is an OpenType font that includes significant flourishes that push the boundries of vertical space, display logic, and Cleartype. The lessons learned from Gabriola, coupled with YDirection Antialiasing in Windows 7 Cleartype, will help Microsoft create a better...(read more)

How do we put gadgets in our weblogs.asp.net sidebar?

2009-09-06T01:38:00Z

Can anyone help with this? I'm trying to get a text/javascript gadget in the sidebar here. If you can offer any tips I'll be very thankful. ;-) Leave a comment or contact me via: wisemx@msftwise.com or on http://twitter.com/msftwise Thanks UPDATE : Success! Thanks to http://twitter.com/FransBouma (and Benjamin, just noticed that in the Comments below...Thanks.) It was very easy to add the Microsoft news from AllTop with the tip I got last night from Frans. http://twitter.com/FransBouma/status/3795215824...(read more)

Active August

2009-08-31T16:50:00Z

Active August…Summary For those who were not aware Active August was mostly SQL Server DBA’s and many others who are Twitter friends and comrades. Twitter trend/search : #ActiveAugust You’ll see many of the Active August participants making Blog posts today, which is what I’m doing now. This is my own summary; you can read the others via links on Twitter. Congratulations to each and all , if you made any effort toward being a better self you are headed in the correct direction. For those of you who...(read more)

VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010

2009-08-20T14:33:57Z

Soma segar posting some very cool news regarding changes for both VB and C#. http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/08/19/vb-and-c-enhancements-in-vs-2010.aspx i.e. ( Many of us have begged for this ) Visual Basic The Visual Basic team focused on adding productivity features to the language so developers can get more done in fewer lines of code. The most common customer request for Visual Basic is to remove the underscore (“_”) character when breaking a code statement across multiple lines...(read more)

Using SQL Management Studio 2008 with SQL Data Services (SQL in the Cloud)

2009-08-20T00:21:08Z

Woohoo! Yup partners, this is exciting stuff! OK…most of you know I’m a Technical Evangelist/Webcaster for Shared Hosting. (Specifically the award winning Microsoft Gold Partner DiscountASP.NET) That being said I will admit that I do not use Microsoft’s awesome Azure cloud SQL Server services for anything other than, well, fun. Yes fun/personal things like my Bing Harley: http://msftwise.com/bing/ DeepZoomPix: http://deepzoompix.com/Album.aspx?alias=wisemx&album=1 SeaDragon: http://seadragon...(read more)

Watching the new Bing bot

2009-07-17T23:25:00Z

Worth noting...The Bing team wants us to know they are hard at work but we need to keep an eye on our sites: Back in December of 2008, we alerted you to the possibility that you might start seeing our new web crawler in your referrer logs. Given the recent excitement around the arrival of Bing, we wanted to take a moment to update you on the latest bot news. As we said earlier, you will see the new Bing crawler user agent string listed as: msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) . Note that...(read more)

Bing in Use (Community)

2009-07-15T14:29:00Z

Bing fan boy here ;-) Check out this post by Ian: Pictures of Bing Stickers in Use I’ve started to receive some photos of how people are using the Bing stickers I sent out. I sent out about 30 to various people around the world and I still have some more pending requests – I’m running very low now despite getting a few more in. And of course I must actually get on and do some work sometime… :-) Here are the first two, starting with Ian Blackburn’s car: And Mark Wisecarver has kitted out his custom...(read more)

Codeplex the way you want it

2009-07-01T12:38:00Z

First of all... When it's raining on our parade everyone tosses their arms up and complains. Point is, Codeplex is a lot like a Sunny day and we're enjoying the Parade -> Microsoft+Community You already use http://www.codeplex.com/ ...Right? Have you noticed the RSS feeds have improved? Pull them in with your favorite RSS reader and you now have a description with each new and newly released project on Codeplex. Nice. And here's a great tip from Sara Ford: How to subscribe to the list of CodePlex...(read more)

40,000 days since the beginning of ‘time’

2009-07-01T00:24:00Z

This is cool...A SQL Server trip through the 1900's by Rob Farley: 40,000 days since the beginning of ‘time’ Next Tuesday feels like a significant day. Not only is it 7/7, and the fourth anniversary of the London bombings (in 2005), but it’s 40,000 days since the beginning of time. Well, not proper time, but since the start of the 1900s. SELECT DATEDIFF(day,'19000101','20090707')+1 AS DaysOf1900s So if Day 1 is Jan 1, 1900 (as many systems tend to use – SQL actually considers it Day 0), Day 40000...(read more)

I'm A VB (VBTeam)

2009-06-30T02:09:00Z

:-) I'm A VB : Mark Wisecarver http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/pages/i-m-a-vb-mark-wisecarver.aspx Are you a VB? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=dRItygroketO20qGr5fcPA_3d_3d...(read more)

The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex, and it does change your code a bit

2009-06-26T17:41:00Z

David Ebbo's blog - The Ebb and Flow of ASP.NET http://twitter.com/davidebbo The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex, and it does change your code a bit Short version : the MVC T4 template (now named T4MVC) is now available on CodePlex, as one of the downloads in the ASP.NET MVC v1.0 Source page . Poll verdict: it’s ok for T4MVC to make small changes Yesterday, I posted asking how people felt about having the template modify their code in small ways. Thanks to all those who commented! The fact...(read more)

If VS2010 ends up hosing Vista. . .

2009-06-26T15:03:00Z

It happens to the best of us, right? OK, OK, I should be using VM for things like this but I admit that I was so excited to test VS2010 that I jumped right on the Web install from Microsoft. At first everything was fine. I use two Vista SP2 systems, Ultimate for my Webcasts and Expression Studio plus VS2008 and SQL Server 2008. . . Thing is...I tested VS2010 on my Vista Home Premium machine. . .Which I actually like a lot more than the Ultimate system, especially the way the UAC works, better. Yes...(read more)

SQL Server Index Defrag Script

2009-06-25T02:09:00Z

Hiya. . . Some of you may have already seen this, but just in case you haven't; Some excellent SQL Server work from Michelle Ufford, also known as "SQL Fool". http://sqlfool.com/2009/06/index-defrag-script-v30/ Index Defrag Script, v3.0 June 23, 2009 by Michelle Ufford Filed under: Performance & Tuning , SQL 2008 , Syndication , T-SQL Scripts I’ve just completed the latest version of my index defrag script! Here’s a brief list of the updates: Fixed a bug with the LOB logic. In the previous version...(read more)