September 2007 - Posts
One of the products that my team builds that I am most proud of is IIS 7. IIS 7 is a *major* update of our web-server stack, and introduces a significantly new and improved extensibility, configuration, and administration architecture. I've blogged about some of its features in the past here and here . Doing a major re-architecture on a mature product is never easy. Doing so on one that runs more than 40% of the web servers on the Internet is especially daunting. The final product, though, is fantastic - and delivers an incredibly flexible, scalable, and robust server architecture that is going to enable us to-do really exciting things going forward. Earlier this week we shipped the RC0 build of Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0. You can learn...
Eilon has an interesting post about using the new anonymous object initializer syntax in APIs that take dictionaries. The end result looks very much like the JSON parameterized function calls that are very common in many JavaScript frameworks, which shows once more how C# is getting many of the nice features of dynamic languages while remaining statically-typed. While I wouldn't use that just to get named parameters like those frameworks are often doing, it looks well-justified in this context because the parameter it's being used for is actually not predetermined. http://weblogs.asp.net/leftslipper/archive/2007/09/24/using-c-3-0-anonymous-types-as-dictionaries.aspx Read More...
Script# supports programming against Silverlight 1.0. You can start writing your RIA and associated components and controls in C# rather than in JavaScript... today! This series of posts will build a photo carousel one step at a time to illustrate this approach. Part 3 completes the series by adding data-binding and templating to the carousel and by querying Flickr using JSONP to fetch the actual photos to display in our photo viewer scenario. Read More...
Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. Visual Studio 11 Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks to Make You a More Productive Developer : Chinh Do has put together an excellent post that covers a bunch of VS 2005 Tips and Tricks that you can use immediately to optimize your developer workflow. I actually learned a few new ones reading it! Highly recommended. Multi-threaded Debugging in Visual Studio 2008 : Scott Hanselman has a quick post that shows a screen-shot of the new multi-threaded debugging features in VS 2008. ASP.NET Debugging Script: Dumping out ASP.NET Session Contents : Tess Ferrandez from the ASP.NET support...
Recently Bertrand posted OpenAjax InteropFest 1.0: Microsoft's entry . The OpenAjax's InteropFest 's goal is to demonstrate how different Ajax libraries can be parts of the OpenAjax ecosystem and interact with each other through the OpenAjax hub . Read all the details, including sample code in Bertand's blog post.. Read More...
Sharing a link to a starter kit for Facebook.NET, and a new release of Facebook.NET (0.2.1.0) itself. Read More...
Sharing a link to a starter kit for Facebook.NET, and a new release of Facebook.NET (0.2.1.0) itself. Read More...
I know, I know, we were a whole week late from our original date. What kind of show are we running around here anyway? :) S Seriously there's a lot of big fixes in here - almost 1000 votes worth - including some much-requested Calendar work (thanks Ron ). One of the thing the team has been working really hard on is a new testing framework for the Toolkit - one that lets us define tests much more easily so we can broaden our test coverage. The new framework and harness is super cool - but it's a bunch of new code so we're still smoothing out some of the bumps. For several days we thought we were close to getting it perfect, and wanted it to be included with this release. This went on for a few days and it was clear we were spending much more...
Yesterday I got to write our entry in OpenAjax's InteropFest . The goal of this event is to demonstrate how different Ajax libraries can be parts of the OpenAjax ecosystem and interact with each other through the OpenAjax hub . The currently central feature of the hub is to expose a publish/subscribe message bus so that both producers and consumers of events can speak through a third party that is neutral to specific Ajax implementations. The OpenAjax Alliance provides a template for demo applications that shows a live data source feeding fake stock quotes through the hub to a visual component that then renders them. I've chosen to modify the live data source to be a Microsoft Ajax-style component. The visual component would not have been as...
One of the questions I get asked fairly regularly is: "how can I can easily change different configuration settings in my web.config file based on whether my application is in a dev, qa, staging or production mode?" The most common scenario for this is one where an application uses different database connection-strings for testing and production purposes. It turns out you can easily automate this configuration process within the Visual Studio build environment (and do so in a way that works both within the IDE, as well as with command-line/automated builds). Below are the high-level steps you take to do this. They work with both VS 2005 and VS 2008. Use ASP.NET Web Application Projects (which have MSBuild based project files) Open the VS Configuration...
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