VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support

posted by  iisguy (28)  17 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Earlier this month at TechEd we announced the official name of Visual Studio "Orcas" - which will be called Visual Studio 2008.  We also said that the official name for the .NET Framework "Orcas" release will be called .NET Framework 3.5 (it includes the new LINQ support, integrated ASP.NET AJAX support, new ASP.NET data controls, and

Building Silverlight Applications using .NET

posted by  iisguy (28)  17 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

I'm just about to hop on the flight back to Seattle after finishing up a 10 day business trip to Europe where I spoke at conferences and user group events in Budapest, Amsterdam and Zurich.  Although trips like these are a little exhausting, I find them really valuable as a way to connect with developers from around the world, as well as

Tip/Trick: Creating Packaged ASP.NET Setup Programs with VS 2005

posted by  iisguy (28)  17 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Scenario

You have built an ASP.NET Web Application using Visual Studio 2005, and want to enable customers to automatically install and deploy it on servers via an easy setup program.

Specifically, you want to create a standard Windows setup program that will create and configure the application on IIS, copy all of the application’s

Details on My Speaking Events in Zurich, Mountain View, and Phoenix

posted by  iisguy (28)  17 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

I'm now half-way through my speaking tour for the month.  In my last post on this I didn't have all of the time/location details on the final events.  Here are

My "Lap Around Silverlight" Talk at TechEd

posted by  iisguy (28)  18 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

On Monday I gave an overview talk called "A Lap Around Silverlight" at TechEd in Orlando.  You can download the slides of my talk here (warning: due to images the download is 12Mb).  You can also learn more about Silverlight from my

Microsoft Surface and WPF

posted by  iisguy (28)  18 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Microsoft earlier today announced a new product called "Microsoft Surface".  If you haven't checked out the online videos of it yet, I highly recommend watching them here.  It is one of those products that looks and feels like it comes from a science fiction movie - but it is

My Upcoming Presentations in Orlando, Budapest, Amsterdam, Zurich, Mountain View and Phoenix

posted by  iisguy (28)  18 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

June is going to be a really busy travel month for me.  I'll be presenting at the following events if you are interested in attending and stopping by to say hi:

I'll be doing a Silverlight talk and two ASP.NET and VS "Orcas" talks. 

May 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF and .NET

posted by  iisguy (28)  18 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

One of the things I'm going to try and start doing is a weekly blog post of useful/interesting links on .NET related topics that I've found on the web.  Below is this week's version:

• Downloading a File using ASP.NET with the "Save As" Dialog:

Using LINQ to SQL (Part 1)

posted by  iisguy (28)  18 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Over the last few months I wrote a series of blog posts that covered some of the new language features that are coming with the Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" release.  Here are pointers to the posts in my series:

Tip/Trick: Supporting Full Screen Mode with Silverlight

posted by  iisguy (28)  18 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

One of the nice features that Silverlight supports is the ability to go "full screen" and effectively take over the entire screen of a computer (hiding everything else from sight - including the browser frame).  This can be very useful when building immersive UI experiences, games, rich video players, etc.

For a nice example of this

New "Orcas" Language Feature: Anonymous Types

posted by  iisguy (28)  18 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Over the last two months I've published a series of posts covering some of the new language features that are coming as part of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" release.  Here are pointers to the first four posts in my series:

Silverlight

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Last Monday I delivered one of the keynotes at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, and discussed a new project that I've been spending most of my time working on over the last year: Silverlight.

Silverlight is a cross platform, cross browser plug-in that enables designers and

IIS 7.0 Beta3 Ships with a Go-Live License

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

This week we shipped IIS 7.0 Beta 3 as part of the Windows "Longhorn" Server release.  IIS 7.0 is the biggest release of IIS in the history of the product, and brings with it major improvements to the Microsoft web-server stack.  This article and

Microsoft Joins OpenAJAX Alliance

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

I'm really pleased to be able to announce that Microsoft today joined the OpenAjax alliance. 

The OpenAjax alliance is a group of vendors, open source projects and companies using AJAX that are focused on developing common AJAX standards and ensuring interoperability across

ASP.NET AJAX Documentation Update, Videos and Cool Articles

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Here is a quick post on some great ASP.NET AJAX focused content that has been published recently:

The ASP.NET documentation team recently posted a refresh of the ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 documentation. 

Slides from my ASP.NET Connections talks: WPF/E, LINQ and ASP.NET Tips/Tricks

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Earlier this week I presented three breakout sessions at the ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando.  Below are the slides / demos for each of the talks I gave:

This talk provides a good introduction to "WPF/E" - which is the code-name for a new small, cross platform browser runtime

IIS 7.0

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

IIS 7.0 is one of the products that my team is shipping later this year that I'm most excited about.  It is the most significant release of our web-server that we've done since IIS 1.0, and introduces a huge number of improvements for both administrators and developers.

Expression Products Added to MSDN

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Last December Microsoft announced the new Expression Studio products.  These products enable designers to build awesome user experiences, and are designed to help facilitate great designer/developer workflow collaboration on projects.  

The Expression products share a

JSON Hijacking and How ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Avoids these Attacks

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Recently some reports have been issued by security researchers describing ways hackers can use the JSON wire format used by most popular AJAX frameworks to try and exploit cross domain scripts within browsers.  Specifically, these attacks use HTTP GET requests invoked via an HTML  include element to circumvent the "same origin policy"

Tip/Trick: Enabling SSL on IIS 7.0 Using Self-Signed Certificates

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

SSL enables browsers to communicate with a web-server over a secure channel that prevents eavesdropping, tampering and message forgery.  You should always use SSL for login pages where users are entering usernames/passwords, as well as for all other sensitive

New "Orcas" Language Feature: Lambda Expressions

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Last month I started a series of posts covering some of the new VB and C# language features that are coming as part of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" release.  Here are the first two posts in the series:

Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

A ton of great articles and tutorials on working with data in ASP.NET 2.0 applications has been published recently. This post highlights a few of them:

Scott Mitchell recently finished writing his

Public Hotfix Patch Available for ASP.NET Compilation Issues

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Over the last year we've found and fixed a few ASP.NET 2.0 compilation bugs that people have reported running into. 

The cause of these bugs is varied - but the root cause usually is related to having projects structured with particular cross page circular dependencies, and they are often triggered when massive file-changes occurs

Update of SQL Server Database Publishing Toolkit for Web Hosting

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

A few months ago I posted about the new SQL Server Database Publishing Hosting Toolkit built and published by the SQL Server team.  You can read about what it offers and how to use it in these previous two blog posts of mine:

New "Orcas" Language Feature: Query Syntax

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Last month I started a series of posts covering some of the new VB and C# language features that are coming as part of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" release.  Here are pointers to the first three posts in my series:

Public Hotfix Patch for VS "Index was outside the bounds of the array" Publish Website Issue

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Two weeks ago I posted about the availability of a public hotfix patch for some ASP.NET 2.0 compilation issues.  You can read about this patch in my post 

Javascript Intellisense in Visual Studio "Orcas"

posted by  iisguy (28)  19 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

In February I did a blog post called My "First Look at Orcas" Presentation. It provided a good summary of some of the cool web development features coming with Visual Studio "Orcas".  If you haven't had a chance to read it, I