March 2011 - Posts

Hanselminutes Podcast 258 - Inside Entity Framework 4.1 CodeFirst with Jeff Derstadt and Tim Laverty by Scott Hanselman

This week Scott sits down with the Lead Dev and Lead PM for Entity Framework 4.1 (Magic Unicorn Edition!) to talk about the improvements from the first version. What's improved and changed? What do they think about NHibernate or just doing SQL on...
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Open Source + Southern Hospitality by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I spent the entire week last week enjoying some good weather and southern hospitality in the Carolinas. On Tuesday Mar 15 I had the pleasure of being invited to present at the Charlotte Enterprise Developers Guild organized by Bill Jones (special thanks...

Application Request Routing and Proxy Chain by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

It is pretty common to run ARR as a proxy behind another proxy in a corporate environment and I've been asked how ARR can be configured in such an environment. This practice is also known as "proxy chaining" where one proxy is "chained"...
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Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Jonathan Boutelle, cofounder and CTO of Slideshare by Windows Azure

Jonathan Boutelle is cofounder and CTO of Slideshare, a site for the online social sharing of slideshows. A software engineer by training, his interests lie at the intersection of technology, business, and customer experience. He studied computer science...
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March 2011 IIS Community Newsletter is published by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I'm excited to announce our March 2011 IIS Community Newsletter is published Here is the link to the March 2011 edition - http://www.iisnewsletter.com/archive/march2011.html Sign-up for IIS Community Newsletter http://www.iisnewsletter.com Cheers...
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Why is Application Request Routing Version 2.5 available only via Web Platform Installer? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Within hours of Application Request Routing Version 2.5 release (see announcement here ), I've been asked why ARRv2.5 is available only via WebPI. Well, a simple response would be that WebPI is the way to consume web technology applications and components...
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Enabling dynamic compression (gzip, deflate) for WCF Data Feeds, OData and other custom services in IIS7 by Scott Hanselman

I'm working on a thing that uses an HttpWebRequest to talk to a backend WCF Data Service and it'd be ideal if the traffic was using HTTP Compression (gzip, deflate, etc). On the client side, it's easy to just add code like this request.AutomaticDecompression...
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How to authenticate ONLY the encoder streams but not the clients for live smooth streaming? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

This question was asked quite a few times from our customers and on the media forum. The scenario is that I, as an site administrator, want to authenticate encoder streams that are pushing in for live smooth streaming. However, I don’t really want all...
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DevConnections Orlando Code and Slides by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions at DevConnections Orlando. I say it every conference, but it really is a lot of fun to talk with people and hear about what they’re working on. The download below contains the code for my “Getting Started with...
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Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric blog posts series – Part 5: Scale-out Application Infrastructure by Windows Azure AppFabric Team Blog

In the previous posts in this series we covered the challenges that Windows Azure AppFabric is trying to solve , and started discussing the Middleware Services in the post regarding Service Bus and Access Control , the post regarding Caching , and the...

CONTENT UPDATE: Delivering High-Bandwidth Content with the Windows Azure CDN by Windows Azure

The MSDN library content about how to use the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) has been revised, reorganized, and expanded to cover the new features available in the Windows Azure Platform Management Portal. In Delivering High-Bandwidth Content...
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The “NoSQL” Gene in SQL Azure Federations- Cihan Biyikoglu by SQL Azure Team Blog

Cihan Biyikoglu has written an interesting article about NoSQL qualities extending into SQL Azure. "It is great to see people catching onto the idea of federations. Recently, there has been a number of great articles and a new whitepaper that refer...

Java Access to SQL Azure via the JDBC Driver for SQL Server by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I’ve written a couple of posts ( here and here ) about Java and the JDBC Driver for SQL Server with the promise of eventually writing about how to get a Java application running on the Windows Azure platform. In this post, I’ll deliver on...
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Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 2.5 has been released. by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 2.5 has been released. Overview: Application Request Routing v2.5 improves the performance and the scalability of ARR in its disk caching scenarios . In addition to fully incorporating the enhancements...
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Modifying the default code generation/scaffolding templates in ASP.NET MVC by Scott Hanselman

One of the things people like the most about my ASP.NE MVC 2 Ninja Black Belt Tips video , besides the Bill Cosby sweater, is the tip where I show how to modify the default CodeTemplates that are used in Code Generation in ASP.NET MVC (either version...
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