Tom Christian's Blog

CannonPI teaser video

2009-05-07T17:58:01Z

There is a new video up on youtube that is the beginning of many more videos. You should check it out and look for for more coming soon. Also, see if you recognize any of the people in this, feel free to post here who you think they are. Read More......(read more)

Where do you go to find answers?

2008-12-19T03:25:07Z

There are more and more sites coming online that allow you to ask questions. So which site(s) do you use? Traditional These sites are more of the old way of finding out answers, you don’t really interact, just find your answer on the existing documentation Read More......(read more)

What do you need to troubleshoot Azure?

2008-11-19T11:00:00Z

Looking to the future with cloud computing, it is going to become increasingly important to have good information about what is happening with your site in order to properly maintain it. Keeping development type of issues aside, what types of things do Read More......(read more)

Insides of Azure

2008-11-14T11:00:00Z

Want to get more details about Windows Azure ? There is a really helpful video done by Channel 9 that talks about this upcoming product and how it works. I think this gives great details about the architecture and also how you will use this and Read More......(read more)

Windows Azure and you

2008-11-11T11:00:00Z

So I have started to look at the new Windows Azure that we just announced, you can download the framework from here . You can also read more about it at Azure Services Platform Developer Center . As I started looking at this, the main sample I was Read More......(read more)

IntelliSense for jQuery

2008-10-30T15:28:00Z

As for reported here , we now have an official IntelliSense documentation file that will allow you to get rich intellisense for jQuery from inside of Visual Studio. When you go to download jQuery, you will see a Documentation link. Or you can download Read More......(read more)

Strange callstacks

2008-10-29T10:00:00Z

How many times have you been troubleshooting a dump or application, you look at the callstack and you see something that just doesn’t quite look right. Chances are the problem is that you don’t have correct symbols. For example, if you see something Read More......(read more)

Web Site Stops Responding for 15-25 seconds

2008-10-28T10:00:00Z

There are a number of reasons that a web site could have a delay (hang) that could cause problems. I am going to talk about a common one that we see which is the CRL. What we have seen in the past is the Crypto API’s are trying to update the Certificate Read More......(read more)

XPerf: A CPU Sampler

2008-10-10T10:00:00Z

Seema just had a great about using XPerf to troubleshoot CPU issues when using Silverlight. This can also be used in the same way to troubleshoot ASP.NET or IIS. What can XPerf tell you? Seema answers that question, it can find out: Is my Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET Tip: When to use which Session Server

2008-10-03T10:00:00Z

There are 3 different ways you can store session in an ASP.NET application: InProc (default mode) State Server SQL Server InProc means we store the data in the same process (in memory) on the web server, in the worker process. This has some distinct Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET Tip: Letting Microsoft know about your problems/requests

2008-09-30T10:00:00Z

Not sure if everyone knows of the various options that there are for communicating with Microsoft so I wanted to let you know about some of them here. Bugs or problems You can log these on the various forums that we have, the forums are found here . Read More......(read more)

Event Log message after installing .NET update – part 2

2008-09-29T19:25:00Z

If you try to install a .NET update, MS07-040 for example, you may see an event log like: Event Type: Error Event Source: LoadPerf Event Category: None Event ID: 3009 · Installing the performance counter strings for .NETFramework failed. The Error code Read More......(read more)

The PDC this year…

2008-09-29T10:00:00Z

Not sure how many people are planning on attending the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) this year, but it is going to be a fantastic conference. We announced some huge announcements on the PDC web site. http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ We have Read More......(read more)

Event Log message after installing .NET update

2008-09-26T10:00:00Z

If you try to install a .NET update, MS08-052 for example, you may see an event log that looks like: Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0 Event ID: 1018 · Failed while registering ASP.NET (version 2.0.50727.0) in IIS. Error code: 0x80070003 This message Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET Tip: How to avoid creating a GC Hole

2008-09-25T10:00:00Z

There are only a few things that can make a .NET process crash. The most common one is an Unhandled Exception getting raised. Another way that is can happen is by creating a GC Hole. What is a GC Hole So first a little background on what I Read More......(read more)