October 2009 Archive on BillS IIS Blog

IIS 7.5 Launched with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2

Since the Windows 2008 Server launch last March, the IIS team has shipped a bunch of new features that plug-in to IIS7 and in parallel worked on IIS 7.5, launching today in the Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 release.  IIS 7.5 includes many bug fixes...

ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 are here!

The ASP.NET and Web tools for Visual Studio teams have been cranking away on this release all year long and we’re excited to launch Beta 2 today!  MSDN subscribers can download it today …it will be available for everyone on Wednesday.  There...

Microsoft Ajax Library Preview 6

The ASP.NET team has been cranking away on more AJAX goodness…this time with a significant update to the Microsoft Ajax Library – Preview 6.  This update includes updates to our client-side AJAX library that can be used with any type of Web application...

IIS Media Services 3.0 Released!

IIS Media Services 3.0 has been released and is now available as a free download for Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2!  Chris Knowlton has a comprehensive post on the release and all the details, here is a quick summary:   IIS Media Services...

Available Jobs: I’m looking for an AWESOME design engineer

I am looking for a super-star designer, to work full time @ Microsoft and report directly to me. This position will oversee the design architecture and visual branding of some of the most important visual assets of the Microsoft Web Platform. I am looking...

Error connecting to SQL Server from Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2 with ASP.NET

Just ran into this and thought I’d share.  If you are trying to connect to a "user instance" of SQL Server from your Web application running on Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 and you’re getting a message that looks like this: Failed to generate a user...

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