June 2007 - Posts
We recently released a set of Silverlight "How-to" videos online. This includes Scott Guthrie's keynote demo at Mix07 which shows off how to create a Silverlight 1.1 application using the Visual Studio add-in for Silverlight. This is also a good time to let you all know that we have had ASP.Net videos and ASP.Net AJAX videos available for a while now. Do send us your feedback on these videos. We'll be adding more from time to time, so do check back. -- Bash Read More...
Last month I started a blog post series covering LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapping) framework that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to easily model relational databases using .NET classes. You can then use LINQ expressions to query the database with them, as well as update/insert/delete data from it. Below are the first two parts of my LINQ to SQL series: Part 1: Introduction to LINQ to SQL Part 2: Defining our Data Model Classes In today's blog post I'll be going into more detail on how to use the data model we created in the Part 2 post, and show how to use it to query data within an ASP.NET project. Northwind Database Modeled using LINQ to SQL In Part 2 of this series I walked...
Did you know that Microsoft is investing in Second Life? That is right... we recently bought an island and have developed it with some really cool stuff. Check out the details here https://www.visualstudioisland.com/ I am all for new, cutting edge stuff, so I volunteered to do a talk in the brand new auditorium we build there on the island. Not sure exactly what I am going to say yet, or really how I am going to say it... any tips would be really helpful as I am brand new to Second Life... It turns out there is quite a bit going on the island. Check out of few events: All times are PST.... 7/31 4:30 PM - Amanda Silver from VB fame will give a talk on Silverlight and VB.NET 8/21 4:00 PM - "Summer Luau" party... I can't wait to see what this is...
People who use VS 2005 to debug ASP.NET applications running in IIS7 on Windows Vista can encounter one of the following error messages when they press F5 to auto-attach the debugger in the IDE: "An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server." "Debugging failed because integrated Windows authentication is not enabled." "Authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server. Try disabling 'Digest authentication'" The above errors occur because of the way that VS 2005 looks up the Process ID of the IIS7 worker process that ASP.NET is running within. Specifically, when you use F5 to "auto attach" the debugger with Visual Studio it sends an HTTP request to ASP.NET using Windows Authentication to retrieve...
Yep, the internet is on! I think most of the comments I got yesterday all revolved around the fact that I posted all my presentations in PPTX format. I work for Microsoft, and well, I use PowerPoint to create my presentations. I figured most people, even if they didn't have PowerPoint on their machines would at least have the viewer so they could see the slides, but it sounds like quite a few people would rather have a PDF or some other format. So, here you go! TechEd: Top 5 Web Blunders ReMIX: Building Your Own Video Site ReMIX: Implementing Rich UI ReMIX: A Tour Around VS2008 ReMIX: Search Engine Optimization for Rich Media Note that these are stored on my personal website, so I can't guarantee how long they'll last as they're not on an official...
ScriptDoc is a tool that extracts documentation from JavaScript files and packages it into XML files that can be consumed by documentation building tools such as SandCastle . The 1.0 version is now able to extract documentation from doc comments as well as from the structure of the code itself. It generates a documentation file that uses the same format as C# doc comment files and a reflection file that describes the structure of the object model and that follows the same schema that SandCastle is using. It is available under a Microsoft Permissive license on Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/scriptdoc Read More...
Thank you to those of you that offered such good suggestions on my recent hard disk crash . My wife and I learned a ton and I wanted to share some of that with you. The Problem On Friday morning we woke up to a bluescreen on our kitchen laptop (which is a Dell Insprion that is exactly 1 month out of warranty). We reboot is several times, hoping for different results... At this point the visions of our unbacked up data dance through our heads. We went and checked our OneCare backup and the most recent one was 6 weeks old, missing pictures from a trip to the beach, my youngest child's 2nd birthday party and the like. Panic sets in. We find the XP CD and boot off it into the recovery console and run chkdsk. It fails 60% of the way in with an “The...
Yesterday, I was doing some mailbox cleaning after a week away from the office taking care of my family (that now counts one more little girl), and I suddenly got unable to move e-mail from the inbox into folders (a message was telling me the message was already gone even though I was staring at it). Restarting Outlook or even rebooting didn't help. Despite the sleep deprivation, I immediately suspected .pst or .ost file corruption. One thing I learned from previous calls to support about Outlook is that there is a little known utility that ships with Office and that restores pst and ost file corruption. Scandisk for .pst if you want. You can find it in Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12 and it's named "scanpst.exe". The icon is a broken...
Looks like the folks at Terralever have had fun with Silverlight 1.1... They built a very cool little zero-G game... I certainly had fun playing it for a while... well actually, I was "stress testing Silverlight 1.1 Alpha" ;-) Read all about it: silverlight: who needs inertia, introducing lt. bennett Here is my best shot so board so far... Can you get further?? Oh, and feel free to tell your boss you are just stress testing Silverlight ;-) Read More...
When I talked to ISV, they often just want to use the .NET Framework as an implementation detail of their applications.. they don't want their users to have to go to windows update or MSDN to download the framework, and they don't want to have some Microsoft setup UI popping up during the install experience of their application. For this scenario, we have a little known feature of setup where you can install it the .NET Framework silently.. that is with no-UI popping up at all. This allows you to have full control of the experience... For .NET FX 3.0: the magic command line is: Dotnetfx3.exe /q See this white paper for more details. Oh, and if you are still on .NET Fx 2.0, the command is: Dotnetfx.exe /q:a /c:”install /q” And you can find more...
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