April 2006 - Posts

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SharePoint 2007 -- Built on ASP.NET 2.0 by ScottGu

One of the things we did with ASP.NET 2.0 was to work very closely with the SharePoint and CMS teams within Microsoft to enable much richer architectural and developer integration than we had with previous releases. Specifically, we tried to drive many...
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Atlas Control Toolkit Refresh Hopefully Shipping Next Week by ScottGu

Shawn gave a quick update on the Atlas Control Toolkit, and a potential refresh drop his team is pushing to-do next week. His team has been doing a great job of answering posts on the Atlas Control Toolkit Forums and in getting feedback and suggestions...
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Debugging Unhandled Exceptions in ASP.NET by ScottGu

Tess really has the best blog I've seen that discusss how to investigate runtime issues with ASP.NET. She is an escalation engineer at Microsoft whose team is dedicated to helping debug and solve customer problems. I blogged about some of her great posts...
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Free MSDN Training Events in Your Area by ScottGu

Anand asked me to point people at some of the great upcoming MSDN events that are scheduled over the next two months. You can learn more and register for them on his blog , or with the links below: 5/2 Grand Junction, CO ( http://msevents.microsoft.com...
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Helsinki was a Blast by ScottGu

I had the pleasure of attending the Microsoft Finnish DevDays event today and presented both the opening and closing keynotes. We had 750 .NET developers attend which was a great turn-out, and the feedback from attendees was really good. Special thanks...
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Always set the "applicationName" property when configuring ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and other Providers by ScottGu

I helped out a few folks last night on the ASP.NET Forums with this problem, so I thought it might make sense to turn this into a blog post to help share information about this. Scenario: You develop an ASP.NET 2.0 application locally using the new ASP...
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My Upcoming ASP.NET Presentations in France, Finland, Ireland, Boston, New Zealand, Australia, and Las Vegas by ScottGu

I’ll be in Europe the next 2 weeks on business, and will be presenting at a number of events if you are interested in dropping by to say hi. Here are the dates and details of where I am speaking: Nice, France : ASP.NET Connections Conference from April...
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Analyze .NET assemblies using NDepend by ScottGu

Patrick pointed me at the cool (and free!) NDepend code analyzer that he has built for .NET 2.0. It analyzes .NET assemblies and generates reports on design quality metrics, along with warnings and diagrams. Some of the graphical reports in particular...
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Cool new IIS7 Features and APIs by ScottGu

IIS7 is a major upgrade of IIS, and will ship in both Windows Vista as well as Windows Longhorn Server. It includes a ton of new functionality, including some very rich integration with ASP.NET. This includes: 1) The ability to now have HttpModules and...
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Visual Web Developer and the other VS Express Products Free Forever by ScottGu

Microsoft announced yesterday that the VS Express products will be free forever. I know there had been some confusion over this (and whether you'd have to pay to download new copies in December). This announcement hopefully clears all that up. You will...
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