Tom Christian's Blog : Microsoft

CannonPI teaser video

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:58:01 GMT

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?

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:25:07 GMT

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)

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

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

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)

Important blogs to visit regularly

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

While I like to think of my blog as a “must read”, I wanted to give out a list of some of the blogs that I think are really important to keep up with, either by visiting the blog or by subscribing to the RSS feed. Microsoft Update WSUS WSUS issues Security...(read more)

Microsoft Optimization for your IT

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

I haven’t seen a whole lot of information coming out about how Microsoft can help you optimize your IT infrastructure so I thought I could mention it. You can read more about the whole program at http://www.microsoft.com/optimization/default.mspx There...(read more)

Improving Time-Critical Code written in C

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:00:33 GMT

Writing web pages is very similar to writing any other type of code. You have to understand how it is going to be used and where you need to really make things run as quickly as possible. There are a number of tips on this blog already that deal...(read more)

IE8 Beta 2 Update

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT

So I have now been able to install Beta 2 on my machine and I just wanted to give my thoughts on it so far. Installation This was a little bit of a problem for me and the Beta 2 package didn’t uninstall Beta 1 automatically for me on my Vista x64 machine...(read more)

IE8 Beta 2 is now out

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:57:33 GMT

In case you haven't seen already, as announced here , IE8 Beta 2 can now be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 . Why is this important? Well, Beta 1 was for developers to see the new browser and test their sites with. This beta is...(read more)

Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT

So I wanted to post a little bit about my adventure with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 . I have a virtual machine that has Visual Studio 2008 installed on it. But it only has about 2 GB of free hard drive space on it. So when I went to install...(read more)

Update for viewstate issues

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT

So a while ago I posted about how to fix the Validation of viewstate MAC failed error . There is some really exciting news that is coming with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. One of the improvements...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT

The next service pack is finally available. If you are using .NET 3.5, or want to use any of the new features that we have been talking about being added in this service pack, I’d strongly recommend you upgrade to this. You can download it...(read more)

Do you think about supportability?

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT

So I wanted to get a read on how people design their web sites. My thinking is that there isn’t much time spent in planning for supportability. There are a lot of other concerns that take priority, What is more important – Design or Content...(read more)

Windows Internal Beta Exam 70-660

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:04:02 GMT

I wanted to pass along some really exciting news if you haven’t heard about it yet, we are getting ready to release a new certification that targets developers and IT professionals who need to know about the internals of Windows for their job. You...(read more)

BLOG CHAT: SQL Injection

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:16:06 GMT

So finally all the details have been worked out. We are going to have this chat on Friday July 18th. At 2:00 PM EST. That is 11:00 AM PST. Shortly I will have a link where you can add a reminder to your calendar about this chat. ...(read more)

SQL Injection – some tools to help

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Joe Stagner posted about some great tools that you can use to help with SQL Injection. This is the topic of our blog chat coming up, I haven’t set a firm date as I am trying to get as many folks to attend as I can from the Microsoft side. Check...(read more)