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MaximumASP Delivers Double Computing Power On Virtual Dedicated Hosting Plan

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:53:28 GMT

I host several sites (including this blog) at MaximumASP and have migrated to MaxV - and it ROCKS !!!! Full review coming soon, but becuase I'm having such a great experience with the Hyper-V based hosting I wanted to let you know about it. There is nothing...(read more)

ASP.NET With Visual Web Developer Video Series (First 6 On-Line)

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:07:27 GMT

I've started updating the 2005 "Getting Started" videos. I've got many more in the works but the first 6 are live now at this URL http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/ Read More......(read more)

The Windows Web App Gallery

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:25:49 GMT

We launched the Windows Web Application Gallery at MIX on 3/18 with 10 open source and community applications, including DotNetNuke, DasBlog, Umbraco and Subtext. We are now experiencing thousands of application downloads per week! Are you working on...(read more)

New Web Site Monitoring Service.

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:40:50 GMT

When one of our sites is down, it's a "all hands on deck" scramble. I use several monitoring mechanisms to let me know if there are problems on one of the sites I work on. I recently added a service from APLUS Monitoring. Their services start at FREE...(read more)

Migrating your Web Applications from IIS 6 to IIS 7

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:04:12 GMT

Did you know there is an easy(er) way ??? This article [ HERE ] explains how to use the Web Deployment Tool [ Get it HERE ] to migrate your web applications from IIS 6 / Windows Server 2003 to IIS 7 / Windows Server 2008 Read More......(read more)

SQL Data Services - SQL Server in the Cloud !

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:00:28 GMT

REALLY distributed architectures are playing a bigger and bigger role in application development these days and Azure is an exciting bit of "Cloud" based technology. Check out ..... SQL Data Services Microsoft® SQL Data Services (SDS) offers highly scalable...(read more)

Introducing .NET Shout Out

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:47:20 GMT

Kazi Manzur Rashid has recently launched a new Community Site for .NET developers http://dotnetshoutout.com It's a categorized, hand picked index of .NET info, which is cool enough, but there is a really interesting aspect. 1.) It's an ASP.NET MVC application...(read more)

IIS Application Request Routing (ARR)

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:01:15 GMT

I've been spending a good deal of time focusing on performance issues lately. When your web properties count annual page views in the BILLIONS, it's inevitable. IIS 7 has great, often overlooked, granularity feature to help you hone performance and the...(read more)

Creating, Updating, and Publishing Web applications with Visual Web Developerd Shared Hosting

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:55:04 GMT

The first video in a series that I'm doing for the IIS / Hosting team on developing in a Shared Hosting Environment is now available. [ Click HERE to watch. ] Read More......(read more)

New, What's NEW RSS feed on www.asp.net !

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:52:21 GMT

Now one feed for all the new Articles, News Items, and Microsoft Blog Posts from www.asp.net ! http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-whatsnew/rss.aspx Read More......(read more)

Microsoft Web Application Installer

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:48:30 GMT

The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti...(read more)

Patterns & Practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Knowledge Base

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:35:35 GMT

J.D. and the very smart folks over in the Patterns and Practices group have been at it again and have published another GREAT development resource. Patterns & Practices Application Architecture Knowledge Base Authored by .... - J.D. Meier , Alex Homer...(read more)

New IIS Configuration Reference

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:24:44 GMT

. Check out http://www.iis.net/configreference IIS 7.0 Configuration Reference Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 introduces a new XML-based configuration system for storing your IIS settings that replaces the metabase that was used in IIS 6.0 and...(read more)

Announcing The Microsoft Web Platform Installer

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:23:34 GMT

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and 7.0, SQL Server 2008 Express, .NET Framework 3...(read more)

Release Candidate of IIS PowerShell Snap-in

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:33:45 GMT

Now available for download: Release Candidate of IIS PowerShell Snap-in The Release Candidate of the IIS PowerShell Snap-in now available. A lot of work was done between Tech Preview 2 and now. The team focused mainly on augmenting the PowerShell Provider...(read more)