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Sessions: Tech Ed on the Road, HydTechies

IIS Workstation — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:10:00 GMT

I recently took a couple of sessions on IIS 7 & 7.5 as part of Hyderabad Techies and "Tech-Ed on the Road" revival campaign here in Hyderabad, India. It was great to see the enthusiasm people had for different Microsoft technologies. We had sessions ranging from ASP.NET - Windows Azure and IIS - to SQL Server 2008. I was responsible for delivering sessions on IIS 7.5 which is going to ship along with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. I think I was kind of lucky in that sense, because there...(read more)

Getting both FastCGI module and AppPool CPULimit to work

ksingla — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:29:00 GMT

FastCGI module available in IIS 7.0 did not work when CPULimit for the application pool was enabled. This was because when CPULimit feature was enabled WAS uses job objects to track CPU usage of worker processes. WAS keeps a job object for each application pool and all worker processes which belong to that application pool are made part of that job object. FastCGI module uses job objects to make sure that there are no orphan child processes left when worker process goes away. Note that FastCGI requires...(read more)

Using Apple's WebDavFS for Mac OS X with WebDAV on IIS 7

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:19:00 GMT

Today's blog post needs to have a disclaimer right up front - I freely admit I'm not a Mac OS X expert, so I may not have everything 100% correct in this post. But I've seen a lot of questions on forums.iis.net that discuss using IIS WebDAV with Mac OS X, so I thought that I'd share a few of the things that I've noticed. Just the same, if I were writing a formal walkthrough I would have said something like, " Microsoft is not responsible for the behavior of Apple's Mac family of products. The information...(read more)

Tip #86: Did you know… Visual Studio has several different search options?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:24:00 GMT

The standard methods for searching can be found under the Edit --> Find and Replace menu. The “Quick Find” method (Ctrl+F) allows users to search inside of the current document, all open documents, the current project, the entire solution, and the current block by changing the Look in selection. If you set Look in to be the current project or the entire solution, Visual studio will open files that have matches as you navigate between matches. You can also adjust the settings under Find...(read more)

Tip#85: Did you know… You can now do Multiple Selection of controls in your Designer with VS 2008 SP1?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:15:45 GMT

Visual Web developer 2008 SP1 supports multiple selection of controls on your designer using Ctrl+Click . You can see that the designer: Displays the primary selected control with a white tab. Button3 in the image below. Enable you to set property for the selected controls using Property Grid. Note that the property grid would show you only the properties that are in common for all the selected controls. Enables you to make use of the Align , Make Same Size and Order Menu commands in your Format...(read more)

How to download IIS?

davcox — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:17:00 GMT

A lot of folks ask us how to "download" IIS; since other web server offerings are available for download on a multiple of platforms, it's an obvious question for the Microsoft web platform stack as well. Well, IIS has historically shipped as part of each operating system, and we have never back-ported IIS from one OS to another. The exception being that we have ported certain features back in our Out of Band modules (extensions) as we like to call them. Now that we have shipped Web Application Gallery...(read more)

Wimbledon Championships in live 720p

Ben Waggoner — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:33:21 GMT

One of the things distracting me from blogging lately has now been announced: the Wimbledon Championships are going to be live HD in Silverlight starting today (Saturday June 27th). Full details (once again) at the Silverlight Team Blog . This is going to be the biggest English language Live Smooth Streaming event so far, coming off the successful French International tennis tournament at Roland Garros. It’s amazing to think that this came together in just eight weeks, and amazing the amount of work...(read more)

Tip #84: Did you know… How to set a Start page for your Web Site in Visual Web Developer?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:49:00 GMT

As you are developing your site, you may want to start at a particular page for testing your web site. By defaults, when you start debugging, Visual Studio runs the page that was currently in focus in your designer. If you set this page, Visual web Developer will start your web site with the Set Page and not the current page in designer. You can do this by right-click on the page and selecting Set As Start Page option from the context menu. This could also be set in Properties page under the Start...(read more)

Troubleshooting HTTP 401.3 errors with Process Monitor

WebTopics — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:16:00 GMT

Last week I posted the following blog which showed how to use Process Monitor to troubleshoot service startup issues. http://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics/archive/2009/06/16/troubleshooting-service-startup-issues-with-process-monitor.aspx To continue on that topic, I ran across another issue recently where Process Monitor was again very helpful in troubleshooting. Problem – When browsing ASP pages, we were getting below error in the browser. Browsing any HTML page worked fine. HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized...(read more)

Silverlight on Xbox 360 demo at Cannes

Ben Waggoner — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:33:00 GMT

Some of you have asked me about Scott Guthrie's twitter mention of the Xbox 360 Silverlight advertising demo at Cannes. So, yes, Silverlight 3 is coming to the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. We're mainly discussing this in the context of advertising at this point. We've got some more info up about it at the (reliably interesting and informative) Silverlight Team Blog . There's plenty to read there, but here's the overview: On Tuesday, June 22nd at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2009...(read more)

FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1 – RC

RuslanY Blog — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:38:07 GMT

Today IIS team has released the FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1 – Release Candidate. This version is based on FastCGI Extension 1.0 and it adds several important improvements and features. The release is believed to have a quality level suitable for production deployments. Install the Release Candidate of FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1 or, download: FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1 – RC (x86) FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1 –...(read more)

Tip #83: Did you know... You can get the name of the calling method from the stack using reflection?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:25:42 GMT

Nearly every program needs a logger to log events, errors and exceptions. Sometimes it is also useful to log the name of the method that logged the event. The easiest way to do that is to make the log method take both the calling method name and event as parameters: [C#] void Log( string callingMethodName, string eventMessage) { Console.WriteLine( "Event logged by " + callingMethodName); Console.WriteLine( "Event: " + eventMessage); } In this case, every method will need to specify its name when...(read more)

How to Add a Locked Header Row to an ASP.NET GridView Control

WebTopics — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:22:00 GMT

The GridView control is often used to display tabular data, much like an Excel spreadsheet. However, unlike Excel, the GridView control doesn't have any automatic way of locking the header row so that it doesn't scroll out of view. Check out this example of a GridView within a DIV with the overflow-Y property set to scroll . Notice that as you scroll the GridView, the header row scrolls out of view. It would be more convenient to have a locked header row so that the header row is always visible regardless...(read more)

Crafting a Better PHP Build Process on Windows – Part IV

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:12:00 GMT

In the previous post , I discussed what it took to use PGO on the Windows PHP build. That led to me building automated build scripts... Automation as the root of all evil "Anything that can be done for you, automatically, can be done to you, automatically." - David C. Wyland First, I had to get the entire dependency stack into the mix. While some of the dependent libraries had VCProject files, some didn't. Worse, even if they had them, you couldn't tell with a degree of certainty that they were compiled...(read more)

Finding malware in your Web Site using IIS SEO Toolkit

CarlosAg Blog — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:43:00 GMT

The other day a friend of mine who owns a Web site asked me to look at his Web site to see if I could spot anything weird since according to his Web Hosting provider it was being flagged as malware infected by Google. My friend (who is not technical at all) talked to his Web site designer and mentioned the problem. He downloaded the HTML pages and tried looking for anything suspicious on them, however he was not able to find anything. My friend then went back to his Hosting provider and mentioned...(read more)