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• New tools to prevent SQL injection attacks

  I've blogged in the past about injection attacks . Microsoft publishes additional new tools to detect and protect against injection attacks. The first tool, developed by HP, crawls web sites to automatically detect possible attacks, the second blocks dangerous requests from being executed, and the last one analyzes code to look for dangerous practice. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/954462.mspx Read More... Posted Jun 25 2008, 01:00 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: ASP.NET, IIS, injection, Microsoft, Security

• Generating thumbnails in ASP.NET (DotNetSlackers)

  I just published a new article on DotNetSlackers . The post is about generating scalable and secure image thumbnails. http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/Generating-Image-Thumbnails-in-ASP-NET.aspx Read More... Posted Jun 20 2008, 07:06 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS

• Using IIS7 with Visual Studio 2005 & Visual Studio 2008

  Mike Volodarsky on the IIS team just published some very useful articles describing how to setup and configure IIS7 to properly work with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005. The article covers necessary components needing to be installed, and the required configuration needed to create, edit and debug web applications using IIS7 and Visual Studio. For Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer users using IIS7, or wanting to use IIS7, I highly recommend taking a look: VS 2005: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/431/using-visual-studio-2005-with-iis-70/ VS 2008: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/387/using-visual-studio-2008-with-iis-70/ Cheers! Omar Khan | Product Unit Manager | Visual Web Developer Read More... Posted Apr 04 2008, 02:28 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: ASP.NET, Debugging, IIS, Omar Khan, Visual Studio, VS2008, VWD

• Get the early skinny on Silverlight 2

  ScottGu has been burning the midnight oil (literally!) to pull together an incredibly detailed tutorial that shows how powerful Silverlight 2 is going to be. Get an early scoop on the features in the soon to be released Beta1, get a feel for how Visual Studio and Expression Studio work together to enable developer/designer collaboration that is second to none, and see just a subset of the power that Silverlight 2 is going to bring to building amazing RIA applications. Get the summary here and links to over 20 pages of details. Hard to believe all of that power is packed into 4.3mb install that just takes 4-10 seconds on a typical machine without Silverlight. Let us know what you think -- and remember this is just the beginning, there are a lot... Posted Feb 22 2008, 04:34 AM by Brian Goldfarb's Blog Filed under: Ajax, ASP.NET, IIS, Misc, IE, Silverlight

• Improving PHP by running it in IIS

  Mike Volodarsky wrote a fantastic article in the January 2008 issue of MSDN magazine in which he explains how you can take an existing PHP application (he uses QDig , a popular image gallery) and improve it without touching a line of its code. This is a great demonstration of the power of IIS 7 's modular and pluggable architecture . Mike was able to add the following features to this PHP application using only managed code modules and configuration: Access control using the ASP.NET membership APIs . Forms authentication . Pretty URLs (http://myphpgallery/index.php/Mike/Flower.jpg instead of the default http://myphpgallery/index.php?Qwd=./Mike&Qif=Flower.jpg ) and rewriting of all URLs that are generated by the application to be pretty.... Posted Jan 25 2008, 03:13 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS, php

• Solution / Hotfix: Developing web applications using Visaul Studio 2005 and IIS7

  Bradley Millington on our team posted a while back on required configuration steps for developing web applications using Visual Studio 2005 & IIS7 on Vista. This is an update to that post with information to address issues that you may still encounter resulting in the following errors when doing F5 debugging with web applications on IIS7: "An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server. Please see Help for assistance." "Debugging failed because integrated Windows authentication is not enabled. Please see Help for assistance." "Authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server. Try disabling 'Digest authentication'. Please see Help for further assistance." The Visual Studio team has just released... Posted Jun 20 2007, 05:00 PM by Your Websites, Our Passion! Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS, Announcements, Tips and Tricks, Vista, Visual Studio, VWD

• A new job for me, better products for you

  And hopefully some more time to blog :) This week we re-organized our team so that we could better serve the needs of our internal and external partners and customers. I won't bore you with the details but it has a pretty major impact on what I do and the kinds of information I want; so I figured this was a great opportunity to share. My new job is focused on Developer Division (which includes designers) Platform Strategy. My new team is 100% focused on making sure we build the best possible products for the market place. We get to understand the trends, the big picture, the little picture, customer needs, partner needs, and partner deeply with the engineering teams run by Scott Guthrie (NDP) and Eric Zocher (Designer) to help ensure that the... Posted Mar 12 2007, 12:40 PM by Brian Goldfarb's Blog Filed under: "WPF/E", ASP.NET, IIS, Misc, Visual Web Developer Express, WinForms, IE, Commerce Server

• New improvements to iis.net: The IIS.net DownloadCENTER

  We are always hard at work improving the experience around our online properties. IIS.net has been getting a lot of attention and we just launched an amazing feature to help you get what you need for IIS and contribute back -- all the details below, let us know what you think! The DownloadCENTER at IIS.net is an inclusive community destination for discovering new components, modules and 3rd-party solutions related to the Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server. With the worldwide release of Windows Vista tomorrow, this new section of IIS.net is particularly relevant to ASP.NET developers interested in the future of the Microsoft Web stack. For example: The latest release of IIS, IIS7, is included with Windows Vista and has a completely... Posted Feb 01 2007, 12:53 PM by Brian Goldfarb's Blog Filed under: ASP.NET, IIS

• Using the Microsoft AJAX Library with PHP

  Steve Marx has been working behind the scenes on building out a community project to create native PHP support for the Microsoft AJAX Library. Today he released the first version. He provides a ton of details in this post which I steal liberally from below. First download ASP.NET AJAX or grab just the client side Microsoft AJAX Library Second, check out the codeplex project Third, code away -- you can contribute bugs, code and more at the CodePlex site -- I think this is pretty darn cool and when you think about this in terms of our FastCGI work on IIS things are getting very cool for developers in any language/platform. Check out this HelloWorld sample code: <?php require_once '../../dist/MSAjaxService.php'; class HelloService extends MSAjaxService... Posted Jan 23 2007, 06:21 PM by Brian Goldfarb's Blog Filed under: ASP.NET, IIS

• IIS7 Beta Hosting at DiscountASP

  I got an email yesterday from Takeshi over at DiscountASP and they just launched free IIS7 Beta hosting for all customers who are interested. You can get all the details at http://www.discountasp.net/sp_iis7hosting.aspx This is a great way to experiment with the great new features of IIS7, especially the integrated extensibility pipeline and ASP.NET integration. With the release of IIS7 with Vista, now is a great opportunityto begin familiarizing yourself with what IIS7 has to offer. Enjoy. Read More... Posted Dec 05 2006, 06:58 PM by Brian Goldfarb's Blog Filed under: ASP.NET, IIS