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ASP.NET Podcast Show #54 - IIS7 with Brett, Thomas, and Chris
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Getting the IIS7 Managed Module Starter Kit to work
http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/05/30/37.aspx
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Sql Server CLR Objects at the East Tennessee .NET User Group
http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/05/23/24.aspx
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IIS7 Module Starter Kit for C++
http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=3&subtabid=31&g=5&i=1062
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IIS7 Managed Module Starter Kit
http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=3&subtabid=31&g=5&i=871
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I like the Community Server 2.1 upgrade of weblogs.asp.net
While I must admit that I don't understand the a lot of the new options for the CS 2.1 upgrade of weblogs.asp.net, I like the options and I think it will bring a lot of new value to the site. Well done guys.
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Desktop Profile / Experience in 5384 build of Longhorn / Vista Server
It looks like there is Desktop Profile / Experience / Role that you can enable in Longhorn / Vista Server Build 5384 (beta2). By enabling it, I got the Windows Mail application and a few other goodies. My hope is that this is for us developers that use a server as our primary desktop environment.
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Darren Neimke's WebParts book for ASP.NET 2.0
http://www.manning.com/neimke/
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New web site dedicated to IIS (and IIS7)
Looks like MS has just opened up a new web site for IIS. The site is www.iis.net. There is even a VS.NET start kit for managed modules on the site. Very cool indeed.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #53 - Atlas ListView and some Declarative Databinding
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Simple HowTos would be nice
Yeah, this is off-topic, but related to the site.
With this new upgrade to CS 2.X, it would be really nice if there were a series of HowTos so that I know how to properly use the site and some of the options within it. These are:- How do I setup cross-posting? (Ok, I need to have the metablog API setup on the recieving site, and I can't, so this is out).
- Where are the cumulative stats? I would like to know the number of page visits to my blog for a given day. How do I do that?
- Getting google analytics to run?
- How do I setup cross-posting? (Ok, I need to have the metablog API setup on the recieving site, and I can't, so this is out).
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #52 - Its our Birthday and Wally talks about the Atlas Update Panel
http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2006/05/19/316.aspx
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Presentations and Example files from my Code Camp talks
I have finally gotten around to uploading my presentations and example files for my code camp talks. The talks are for:
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Atlanta Code Camp Picture Gallery
http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/photos/atlanta_code_camp_-_may_2006/default.aspx
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ASP.NET Podcast files are back up
Sometime on Monday evening/Tuesday morning, there was a server failure and the site hosting the files went down, but NOT the ASP.NET Podcast site itself. The xml feed should be back up and going along with the most recent direct download link. I'll be fixing the previous links over the next couple of days. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Atlanta Code Camp report
The Atlanta Code Camp is over and I have gotten home. I drove through some storms around the GA/TN state line. I think things went pretty well. We had a speaker meetup on Friday night.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #51 - Alabama Code Camp Rountable Discussion
- Atlanta Code Camp.
- "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET" goes to production.
- Apologies to Miljan.
- Roundtable from the Alabama Code Camp - What is happening in Alabama?.
- Community Growth.
- Atlanta Code Camp.
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Journey to the Atlanta Code Camp
My journey to the Atlanta Code Camp starts on Friday at about 10 am. Thats about when I will be leaving Washington, DC and driving to Atlanta, GA. I'll be headed down I-95 to I-85 and on into Atlanta. Its about 600 miles. It'll make for a long day. Thanks goodness my talk on Saturday isn't until Saturday afternoon. After the Code Camp, I'll be driving back home to Knoxville, TN.
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Now, its time for some time off.............
I've been to the gym and worked out 3 weeks in a row, thats 21 days in a row for most of us. Friday May 12th will be an off day. Saturday May 13th might be an off day. Did i mention that I am tired...........
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #50 - Miljan Braticevic
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Tomorrow is my last gym day before some off time
Tomorrow (Thursday May 11th) will be my last day in the gym bfore some offtime. I've gone everyday for 3 weeks in a row. Friday (May 12th) will be my first off day in a while. I may take off Saturday, it just depends. I need to be in there working hard if I ever want to look like Paul Glavich......................
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"Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET" book is going to production
Our "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET" book has now gone to production. That means that editing is finished and Wiley will be doing layout and final work to prepare it for printing. Wow, I am glad that this is done. I am sure that there will be questions that come up, but when I am writing and editing, I get so tense and it keeps me from doing the things that I like, like playing golf.. I am going to be working another book soon and I have things that I have to do, but this stuff is done and I am glad.
This is the main reason why I haven't gotten out a podcast in the last 10 days or blogged much................ -
Craig Shoemaker's son - OT
This is an FYI, for those that know Craig. Craig is a great guy. He is a co-author on our book. He runs the Polymorphic Podcast and blogs over at DotNetJunkies. Craig's son was born on April 28th. He had some type of baby infection. Anyway, Craig called me yesterday to let me know that his son is fine and went home on Friday.
Wally
PS. Yeah, I realize this is off topic, but Craig is my buddy so here is the announcement. -
More on Recycling in COM+
As I have been load testing this COM+ application, I have setup several pools of this application in COM+. Once I setup multiple pools of the application, I can watch the multiple instances of DLLHost startup and go away in the taskmanager, just like they are suppossed to do. I am hoping that this will resolve our problems.
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Load Testing of a Web Application
I've been stuck in load testing "heck" recently. I've been testing the COM+ application that I have inherited as well as doing some testing on an application I have written for this client. One interesting thing that I have found. The load test utility I am using has this thing called a "frustration coefficient." The COM+ app has a value of 13. My app has a value of 0. Smaller is better.
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Alan Stevens from Knoxville
FYI, Alan Stevens from Knoxville is speaking at the Atlanta Code Camp and at DevLink 2006 in Nashville. You can check out Alan's blog at www.netcave.org. Alan will be speaking on Visual Studio Team System. It will be great to have someone else from Knoxville at these events.
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Why no software development conferences or code camps in Tennessee?
Ok, I have been really jealous the past couple of years about all of these cool conferences in other cities and states. I've been to Birmingham, Atlanta, Orlando, and Huntsville to talk at the Code Camps there. I've been invited to a couple of others to speak as well as attended the great DC Code Camp put on by Andrew Duthie last year. The question that has been in the back of my mind is "Why are there no code camp/sd conferences in TN?" Well, there is one now. John Kellar in Nashville is putting to gether something called DevLink. It is on Friday October 13th in Nashville, though he could have picked a better date (hahahaha). John contacted me a couple of days ago. I am sure that I'll post more info about this over the next couple of months. Until then, check out the site at http://www.devlink.net/.
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Atlanta Code Camp - Atlas Talk
On May 13th, I will be doing my talk on Microsoft Atlas. I'm really exited about this. I hope to see you there. If you are in the area, please come to my session. I'll have some t-shirts to give away after my session.
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Recycling in COM+ applications
I've been dealing with some problems in a COM+ application I inherited a few years ago. The problems started up after we upgraded the servers with new hardware and are using Windows 2003 Server to host the application.
It seems that there are some new recycling features in COM+ in Windows 2003 that I was not familiar with until I found them on Tuesday. With these recycling features, a new DLLHost is started up to service requests after a criteria is met. The old DLLHost processes pending requests while new requests go to the the new DLLHost process. The old DLLHost process is shut down once the process detects that all external references to objects in the process are removed or when the expiration time-out value is detected.
The four criteria that I have found for recycling are:- RecycleLifetimeLimit. This is the maximum number of minutes a process runs before it is recycled. Valid numbers are 0 to 30,240. The values are in minutes. The default value of 0 means that the process is not recycled based on this criteria.
- RecycleMemoryLimit. This is the maximum amount of process memory (in kilobytes) before a process is recycled. If the process memory exceeds the specified memory for more than one minute, the process recycle process begins. The defualt value of 0 means that a the process will not recycle based on this criteria. Valid numbers are 0 to 1,048,576.
- RecycleCallLimit. This is the maximum number of calls that applications accept before a recycle takes place. Valid numbers are 0 to 1,048,576. The default value of 0 means that the process is not recycled based on this criteria.
- RecycleActivationLimit. This is the maximum number of application object activations before a process is recycled. Valid numbers are 0 to 1,048,576. The default value of 0 means that the process is not recycled based on this criteria.
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More delays ahead for Vista?
Just last week, MS announced a delay in Windows Vista Server to the second half of 2007. Now, Gartner Group is predicting that Vista Client will be delayed until the 2nd quarter of 2007. At least I have Atlas to play with.
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My April Prize at Community-Credit.com
Sure it looks like the kind of traveling mug a secret agent might use. It's deep black body absorbs all light and even doubles as a shade device (if you put the mug in between you and the light source and assuming you are no taller than eight inches of course). But that's not all! Its real purpose is two-fold, to allow you to enjoy the best caffeinated beverages the world has to offer and to operate as a first line of defense against all your friends and co-workers with petty computer problems.