August 2009 - Posts

Photos from Death Valley by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

A small set of photos from a trip to Death Valley National Park ... drove up there right after MIX '09 in Las Vegas. [ Full post continued here... ] Read More...
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Great thread on IIS 7, WebDAV 7.5, Shared Hosting Config w/UNC folder location by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Here is a good thread about WebDAV, FTP 7.5, Shared configuration.. I try to track gems like this in my UNC tag. http://forums.iis.net/p/1160381/1915103.aspx Here is more information on Shared Configuration http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/95/managing-shared...
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Lessons learned from Windows Live ID's foray into Open ID by Live Services

Yesterday the WLID guys shared some interesting stuff they learned from their OpenID CTP. CTPs are often used to get feedback from developers, validate ideas, and/or correct the course of an effort. Sometimes they are even used to prove the feature/service...

Dynamic IP Restriction And Plesk by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

There has been several reports of Dynamic IP Restriction not working when Plesk is installed. The issue observed is the worker process fails to load dynamiciprestrictions module while startup, and thus fails, and errors out. The eventlog entry correponding...
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Amazon Kindle vs. Amazon Kindle DX - The Final Word by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

I'm absolutely thrilled with my Amazon Kindle. I read it every night and have probably bought a dozen books with it, several newspapers and I read many dozen PDFs. I own the standard-sized Amazon Kindle 2 - it's the little one in the picture on...
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The Id Element: Jorgen Thelin on the Microsoft Federation Gateway (MFG) by Vibro.NET

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Multi-Targeting Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) by ScottGu's Blog

This is the third in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post discusses VS 2010’s enhanced multi-targeting support – which allows you to use and target multiple versions of .NET.  We did significant...

BouncingPlane Behavior for Silverlight by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

Time for a brief but fun post... some time back Tim Heuer posted the Silverlight 3 bouncing plane gratuitous demo . Click an element, and the nearest corner would bounce backwards and forwards as it comes back to rest. Tim had the code to setup the storyboards...
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Cleaning Up the Disabled State of a Silverlight Control using Expression Blend by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

Silverlight provides the ultimate in flexibility when it comes to styling controls.  If you don’t like how something looks you can tweak the template in a tool like Expression Blend quickly and easily and get something completely different. ...
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Deploying Applications on Windows Azure by Extemporaneous Mumblings

There has been a bit of interest in an application called ' myTODO ' that we built for the World Partner Conference (WPC) event back in July.  It is a simple, yet useful application.  The application allows you to create and share lists...
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Starter Project Templates (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) by ScottGu's Blog

This is the second in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post is about another small, but I think nice, change coming with VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4 when you create new ASP.NET Web projects – which is the...
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LINQ to Bing, Silverlight and .NET RIA Services by Nikhil Kothari's Weblog

In my last post, I described BLinq, or LINQ to Bing , an API that allows you use LINQ to access the Bing search results (ok, so perhaps BLinq was not the best of names, given prior art on that name ... but anyway). I also alluded to .NET RIA Services...
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ASP.NET MVC - Is WebForms the VisiCalc of Web Development? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

If you’re an “old geek” like me, you remember a number of software products that “changed the world”. VisiCalc was THE spreadsheet of the day !  It might have done 2% of what Excel 2010 does, but when it was released it was an AMAZING innovation...
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Books: “Programming Windows Identity Foundation”, P&P claims guide & others by Vibro.NET

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Clean Web.Config Files (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) by ScottGu's Blog

This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post is about an admittedly small, but I still think kind of nice, change coming with ASP.NET 4.0: clean, simple, web.config files.  You’ll...
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