ScottGu's Blog
Scott Guthrie lives in Seattle and builds a few products for Microsoft
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Visual Studio "Orcas" Web Designer Integrated into Main
This weekend was a really exciting one for the VS Web Tools team. On Saturday they checked in their new HTML and ASP.NET WYSIWYG designer into Visual Studio. This designer is a major, major improvement over previous HTML designers within Visual Studio, and will be a shared component used by both Visual Studio and Expression Web Designer going forward.
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ASP.NET Tips and Tricks and LINQ Slides/Demos from CodeMash
Below are the slides + demos for the two breakout talks I presented this past Friday at the CodeMash conference:
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Video Interview of Me Talking about WPF/E, Orcas, IIS7 and MIX
Yesterday Channel9 posted a video interview of me with Rory Blyth that was filmed earlier this week. -
Tip/Trick: How to upload a .SQL file to a Hoster and Execute it to Deploy a SQL Database
Last month I posted about the new (free) Database Publishing Wizard that is designed to make it much, much easier to upload and deploy SQL Express and SQL Server databases in a web hoster environment.
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Download ASP.NET AJAX PDF Cheat Sheets
Milan Negovan from the http://aspnetresources.com/ site has been working on putting together some really nice PDF "cheat sheets" for the client-JavaScript libraries in ASP.NET AJAX:
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Next Generation Yahoo Messenger built with WPF and .NET
At the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Yahoo showed off some cool demos with their next generation messenger client (you can watch a video of it in action at http://messenger.yahoo.com/vista). One of the really cool things about the new messenger client is that it was built using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and the .NET Framework.
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A few VS 2005 SP1 Links and Information Nuggets
In you were out the second half of December, you might have missed some of the VS 2005 Service Pack 1 posts that I've previously made:
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I've been Tagged: Five Things You Might Not Know About Me
I've been tagged by Paul, so here are 5 things to share about me:
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Recipe: Deploying a SQL Database to a Remote Hosting Environment (Part 1)
You finish building a great ASP.NET application, have everything tested and working right on your local system, are taking full advantage of the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role and Profile features, and are ready to publish it to a remote hosting environment and share it with the world.
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Tip/Trick: How to Run a Root “/” Site with the Local Web Server using VS 2005 SP1
One of the questions I'm often asked is whether it is possible to run an ASP.NET web-site project as a top-level root "/" site using the built-in VS web-server and the VS 2005 Web Site Project model.