Hosam Kamel's Blog

One of the new features in ASP.NET 2.0 is the membership and role provider system. This is a nicely designed system that allows the developer to handle the storage of user information pretty much any way he likes, all he has to do is create the appropriate providers and configure his application to use these. While this is very powerful there is something else I was much more interested in and that is the fact that user and role management can be added to an application without having to do any of the implementation work. Now this is very convenient if you don’t already have a user database to work with. Also, if at all possible, I would like to be able to use these providers in my Windows forms applications as well as in my web application. Fortunately this is possible without much work at all! So let’s create a very small console application with user management.

I was trying to include my ASP.NET MVC project in a TFS team build today but the build failed so I've investigated this issue and thought it will be helpful to share it with the community.

If you are a Server Core fan, and wished you could host ASP.NET websites in Server Core, then feel better, you wish had come true. Windows Server 2008 R2’s Server Core will have .NET Framework which means, ASP.NET too. This is a big news for all those wanted to deploy Server Core, but stopped because .NET Fx wasn’t there in the RTM release.

Now you can read the captions in Visual Studio in following languages:

After announcing Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) in Beta Bill Staples announcing another tool that makes installing some of the world’s most popular ASP.NET and PHP applications on IIS7 a snap! 

While browsing Visual Studio Developer Center at MSDN if found this interesting article which identifies the known issues you will face when using Visual Studio 2003 on Windows Vista. While Visual Studio 2003 is not supported on Windows Vista.

You may get the below error while trying to load ASP.NET web site/Web application while using Visual Studio under Windows Vista.

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