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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, Microsoft, Security, IIS, injection

• A honest recap of the IE8 meta-tag controversy

  This will affect all Web developers, which is precisely why the debate is very heated. Anyway, here's a honest recap of the issue. I tend to agree with the author's conclusion although that is obvisouly not the position of Microsoft... http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/ie8-super-standards-mode.ars http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/ie8-super-standards-mode.ars/2 Note: at the smallest signs of a flame war, I will close the comments on this post. Ars has a good forum and comment system where your voice is much more likely to be heard and endlessly contradicted. ;) Read More... Posted Jan 25 2008, 03:43 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: Microsoft, JavaScript, Internet Explorer, HTML

• Ajax usage survey among .NET developers

  Following the more open-sourcey informal study that was recently advertised on Ajaxian , Simone Chiaretta publishes and analyses the results of his own study that he recently made and that is aimed exclusively at .NET developers. While Richard Monson-Haefel's study is being made for the third consecutive year, which makes for some interesting trend information, Simone's analysis is more directly interesting to us. The differences between the results of both studies for .NET developers also goes a long way showing how such data crucially depends on who you're asking. Case in point, it's pretty clear that the intersection of Ajaxian readers and .NET developers is much more open-source-oriented ( not that there's anything wrong with that ) than... Posted Dec 21 2007, 07:22 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: ASP.NET, Atlas, .NET, Microsoft, JavaScript, Microsoft AJAX Library

• D'oh! I guess they didn't think about that one...

  Too funny: http://nldd.lordabdul.net//12.html Read More... Posted Dec 20 2007, 02:19 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: Microsoft, Opera

• Microsoft now in the OpenAjax steering comittee

  Thanks to all members who voted. I'm looking forward to working with the other members. http://www.openajax.org/blogs/?p=41 Read More... Posted Oct 09 2007, 06:37 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: ASP.NET, Microsoft, Microsoft AJAX Library, OpenAjax

• .NET framework: now with source code

  Scott just announced it: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx This will make debugging .NET apps a lot easier... Read More... Posted Oct 03 2007, 12:49 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, Microsoft

• OpenAjax InteropFest 1.0: Microsoft's entry

  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... Posted Sep 21 2007, 03:21 PM by <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy">Tales from the Evil Empire</a> Filed under: ASP.NET, Atlas, Microsoft, JavaScript, Microsoft AJAX Library, OpenAjax

• ReMIX: Presentations in PDF & Source for VS2008 Demo

  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... Posted Jun 27 2007, 07:02 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: Microsoft, CSS Examples, Code Samples, web design, Internet Explorer, presentations, share

• Outlook pst file repair tool

  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... Posted Jun 27 2007, 02:33 PM by Atlas and more Filed under: Microsoft, Outlook

• ReMIX: Search Engine Optimization For Rich Internet Applications

  I think that this was my favorite session I did while doing all my ReMIX presentations. It was the one I found most interesting, and most relevant to the work that I do, and see many web developers and designers doing every day. I'm not sure if there is video for this session, but if it shows up, I'll be sure to link to it. In the mean time, I've included the slides for you to check out, and I'll try to get a blog post out about in the next week or two summarizing the info in the deck. Read More... Posted Jun 25 2007, 05:06 PM by PeteL's Blog : share Filed under: Microsoft, CSS Examples, Code Samples, web design, conferences, share