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Great list scott!!! Thank you so much...

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Thanks for these great links! I have a question about outputcache provider in ASP.NET MVC, I wrote my own outputcache provider but could not apply it to controllers or actions, there's no such a property called ProviderName in OutputCacheAttribute class, and I don't want to change the default output cache provider in web.config file, is there any way to apply different output cache provider to different controllers or actions? Thanks in advance!

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Also for me this book is excellent. I'd report only that is available a "light" version:

www.amazon.com/.../ref=sr_1_1

useful to carry along.

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Thanks for the link :) I am using IIS Express daily with some of my projects and it's excellent.

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Scott, is there any way at all to get the *.chm file documentation viewer to remember the chosen language from page to page? I'm using both Enterprise Library 5.0 and SilverLight 4.0, and having to choose 'C#' several hundred times a day sort of cuts into productivity. I know the doc is online as well, but on a broadband connection, that also takes quite a while. Apologize if you've already answered this in the past, but I couldn't seem to formulate a search in the search box above that was useful

Thanks

David McBroom

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

I know MS isn't really big on UI consistency, however would it kill you to release a ribbon control that actually looks like the one in office?  How many versions of the “ribbon” are out there now? You have the original Office 2007, you have the one in the new word pad and paint, 10 other versions people have come up with on their own, now we have a much nicer looking one in Office 2010, now today, months after 2010’s release, we have a control that looks nothing like the current look.

Why?

I would get into another rant about how as a platform MS should really have a solid and consistent look and feel, but it would get rather long.  Open all of the stock programs in Windows 7, there are some glaring oddball programs.  Open other MS programs, Office, VS2010, Expression, Zune, etc.  It’s a complete mess.  I hope, heck, I will even pray, that someone in MS is trying desperately hard to change this.  If I pick up a Windows Phone 7 phone, will I even know it is windows, from MS?  (BTW – I happen to love Metro as a UI theme, it’s just that it completely clashes with everything else presently, that could be fixed of course).   Other platforms are now succeeding because they have this nailed, not because they are great under the hood.  It’s just depressing.

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Hi Scott,

Thanks for these valuable links. One catch though (I am unable to post this on Mitchell's article). The article link "Techniques to Avoid Duplicate URLs" by Scott Mitchell has an issue I guess. This article talks about 301-redirecting from root/default.aspx to /root. The technique shown will not work and will cause an endless loop because this code:

else if (Request.RawUrl.EndsWith("/default.aspx", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))

     url = string.Format("{0}://{1}{2}",

                 Request.Url.Scheme,

                 Request.Url.Authority,

                 Request.RawUrl.Remove(Request.RawUrl.LastIndexOf("/default.aspx", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)));

will go in an infinite loop as RawUrl will always catch /default.aspx even if the requested URL looks like /root only. Can you shed some light on this issue?

Thanks,

Vivek

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@my comment above: I am using ASP.NET 3.5, and using 301-Response.Redirect instead of the new 4.0 RedirectPermanent method. Below is the code I am using:

    else if (requestedURL.EndsWith("/default.aspx", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))

           {

               newUrl = string.Format("{0}://{1}{2}",

                request.Url.Scheme,

                request.Url.Authority,

                request.RawUrl.Remove(request.RawUrl.LastIndexOf("/default.aspx", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)));

              context.Response.Status = "301 moved permanently";

              context.Response.AddHeader("Location", newUrl);

           }

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Hi there, is the IIS Express Stand-alone package out yet?

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Speaking of new books, whatever happened to the "Moving to Microsoft VS2010" e-book that was supposed to be out in the summer of 2010? The Microsoft Press blog page doesn't seem to have been updated since the 2nd Draft release in May.

I'm in a shop moving from VS2005 to VS2010 and the draft chapters have been helpful, but it would really be helpful to have the book. Thanks.

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Thank you so much...

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

thanks for these useful links.

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Does anyone know a potential release date for SQL 4 CE?

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special thanks for "Step into the ASP.NET MVC Source Code with the VS Debugger"

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Cool list. Consider adding a link to the Silverlight QuickStarts: www.silverlight.net/.../quickstarts in the Silverlight section.

These QuickStarts were recently updated (more than doubled the number of articles + fixes to old ones), are now presented in a prescribed order for newbies, and feature embedded running samples with code.

Thanks,

Sam

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@RyanLM

The WPF Ribbon control is actually patterned off of the Windows 7 Ribbon. That's the UI standard being brought forward. WPF Ribbon applications will have the same Ribbon look as native Windows 7 applications.

The original Ribbon look from Office 2007 isn't currently supported as the team felt the Windows 7 look had more currency. The Office 2010 look is much closer to the Windows 7 look.

Pete

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Thanks a lot!

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

That's really helpful, thanks for sharing the links!

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Does anyone know a potential release date for SQL 4 CE?

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Great set of links. Especially appreciate the one on Techniques to Avoid Duplicate URLs. Very important for preventing negative impact on your SEO.

# re: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Thanks for sharing the links. I'm sure they will be very helpful to me

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can u tell me that how to add silverlight toolkit in vs2008