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Archives / 2007
  • Sudoku and Tetris Game for Windows Mobile

    During my last two business trips (to Barcelona for TechEd and Mexico for ReMix) I was way too bored on the plane and since I recently got my Motorola Q9 (which is a sweet Windows Mobile Phone) decided to write myself a Tetris game and to port my Sudoku game to Windows Mobile as a way to do my "first steps" in the .NET Compact Framework.

  • See you at TechEd Developers 2007 in Barcelona!

    Today I'm flying to Barcelona to attend TechEd Developer 2007. I will be talking about IIS 7 Extensibility and showing some of the cool stuff we have been doing for the last couple of years, including Configuration Extensibility, building Managed Read More...

  • Using LINQ with Microsoft.Web.Administration

    With the upcoming release of .NET 3.5 and LINQ I thought it would be interesting to show some of the cool things you can do with IIS 7 and LINQ. Everything that I will do can be done with C# 2.0 code but it would take me several lines of code to write them but thanks to LINQ you can do them in about a line or two.

  • Extending the IIS Manager Home page

    IIS Manager provides a lot of extensibility points for developers, one of them is the new Home page or Control Panel. The new Home page allows end users to group their features based on different types of categories, including Area (IIS, ASP.NET and Management) and Category (Application Development, Security, Server Features, etc).

  • Free Sudoku Game for Windows

    A couple of years ago a friend of mine introduced me to a game called Sudoku, and immediately I loved it. As any good game its rules are very simple, basically you have to lay out the numbers from 1 to 9 horizontally in a row without repeating them, while at the same time you have to layout the same 1 to 9 numbers vertically in a column, and also within a group (a 3x3 square).

  • IIS Reports for IIS Manager 7

    I have just uploaded a new application that extends IIS Manager 7 for Windows Vista and Windows Longhorn Server that adds a new Reports option that gives you a few reports of the server and site activity. Its features include:

  • Recent Tasks in IIS Manager 7

    Talking to a good friend of mine (Daniel) about random geeky stuff, suddenly he showed me one of the features he considered very useful from the Windows Vista Control Panel. Basically they have a "Recent Tasks" at the bottom where they keep track of all the features you have used sorted by most recently used. He then suggested that we should do something similar inside IIS Manager 7 for those of us that have "task-amnesia" or are just to busy to search for it in the Control Panel.