A few weeks ago I announced the availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) in Beta. Web PI makes it easy to obtain and install the Microsoft Web Platform, including IIS, ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer Express, SQL Express and tons of other great IIS and other platform extensions in...

Here are a few cool links I found today while catching up on my IIS reading:   URL Rewrite In case you missed it, the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is now licensed for production use in its final beta release.  Deploy it today and get all the benefits from one of the most powerful IIS7 features...

Dan Hounshell suggested that in the ASP.NET community, there are three types of people: Community Leaders Practical Experts Developers (i.e. everyone else) The Community Leaders, he writes, are the people who steer the community. He names Scott Guthrie as the primary steerer. The Practical Experts are...

While preparing the demos for my session at TechDays Portugal 2008 , I've noticed some changes in the Web Client Software Factory 2.0 that prevented the EventBroker Extension from compiling and running. The problem ended out just being a little change in the WebClientApplication class. The virtual methods...

Web Client Software Factory 2.0 February 2008 Release Resources MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webclientfactory Community site: http://www.codeplex.com/websf About the Deliverable The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise...

Responding to Joe Stagner 's invitation to blog at the ASP.NET blogging community , I've set up a new blog. My new blog is at http://weblogs.asp.net/PauloMorgado/ and will be a mirror of my pre existing blog in "English" at MSMVPS . The syndication feed will be the same for both blogs ( http...

With IIS7 a new transfer method is available in the HttpServerUtility class . It's the TransferRequest method . What this method is intended to do is behave like the HttpResponse.Redirect method without the penalty of traveling to the client and back . I said "is intended to behave" because it still...

From my article on Page Modules some people might have gotten the wrong impression that this would be the only way to get a reference to the page given its path, but it isn't. You can use the System.Web.UI.PageParser.GetCompiledPageInstance method to get the reference to the page before calling the System...

our company ppedv AG runs the major development conferences in Germany. We host the VSone as platform event for partners, speaker and attendees. VSone have nearly 100 Sessions and a huge exhibition. Everyone is invited to submit session proposals. Please excuse that we cannot take all and we cant pay...

Well, we made some rather large site updates today. Some went well, some not so well. We've had a lot of feedback to digest. I want to personally apologize for the roughness of today's updates. It obviously didn't go anywhere near as smoothly as we planned. We made the update around 2AM EST last night...