July 2011 - Posts

How do I listen to songs from my laptop on my Windows Phone 7? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I have about 6 GB of audio collection saved under folder ("Songs") on my machine. I never felt it practical to sync my entire collection, however, every now and then I would miss listening to a song I hadn't synced yet ... so I had to find...
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IIS 6: Setting up SSL - Appendix B: Obtaining a Root Certificate from Windows Server 2003 Certificate Services by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

In this second appendix for my blog series about using SSL with IIS 6, I'm going to discuss obtaining the root certificate from Windows Server 2003 Certificate Services. By way of explanation, obtaining a root certificate is one of the most important...
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Web Farm Framework 2.1 – Servicing Release by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today IIS team has published a servicing release of Web Farm Framework 2 . This release contains fixes for the bugs reported in version 2.0 that was published in January this year. The following bugs have been fixed in this release: If a server was excluded...
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Fujitsu Announces the Global Availability of New Line of Middleware Products to Support Windows Azure by Windows Azure

Fujitsu announced the global availability of a new line of middleware products to support the Windows Azure Platform, which comes on the heels of their announcement of the Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform service, powered by Windows Azure . The middleware...
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How to escape {curly brackets} in URL Rewrite rule by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

There is no escaping character in an URL Rewrite expression, but here is how you include curly bracket within an URL Rewrite expression. For opening { curly bracket you will always require to use the UrlDecode function to generate the { character from...
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IIS Shared Config–Staggered Install-Week 30 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can find this week’s video here . This week's lesson covers how to perform staggered installs when IIS Shared Configuration is enabled. This is week 30 of a 52 week series for the web pro. IIS Shared Configuration, used for webfarms, requires...
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Real World Windows Azure: Interview with David Holecek, Digital Strategy Manager at Volvo Car Corporation by Windows Azure

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to David Holecek, Digital Strategy Manager at Volvo Car Corporation about using Windows Azure to host the company’s interactive, online game that has a tie-in to the Twilight movie franchise...
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IIS 6: Setting up SSL - Appendix A: Installing Windows Server 2003 Certificate Services by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I needed to take a short break from my blog series about using SSL with IIS 6 in order to work on some other projects, but I wanted to finish the series by giving you a few appendices that give you some additional details that you might want to know if...
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Entity Framework Code First Migrations: Alpha - NuGet Package of the Week #10 by Scott Hanselman

Hot on the heels of my RFC blog post on product versioning , the Entity Framework team has released Entity Framework 4.1 Code First Migrations: August 2011 CTP . Cool. And it's July, too! Or my preferred product name, " Migrating Magic Unicorns...
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Now Available: The June CTP of Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus REST API from Java, PHP by Windows Azure

Good news for all PHP and Java developers: today we are publishing some Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus samples just for you. Since the AppFabric Service Bus REST API can be used from almost all programming languages and operating systems, it makes...
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How to connect to a Wireless WIFI Network from the Command line in Windows 7 by Scott Hanselman

For the humorless amongst you who didn't find these Updated for 2011 - McDonald's WiFi Guide with updates for Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7 to be HIGH-LARIOUS, the question was asked, " well, sir, how do you connect to a Wireless WIFI Network...
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Request for Comments: Issues with .NET and Microsoft Product Versioning by Scott Hanselman

NOTE: I have had this blog post sitting in my drafts for a few months now. I've gotten close to posting it, held back, then gotten close to posting again. Today I noticed that Microsoft published a patch/update to Entity Framework 4.1 (Code First...
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Microsoft at OSCON 2011: We have become more open, let’s work together! by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Gianugo Rabelino, Microsoft’s Senior Director for Open Source Communities, just finished delivering his keynote at OSCON in Portland . As Gianugo is now wandering around the OSCON session and expo floor, I thought it would we useful to give you a quick...

Just Announced: Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS Now Supports Access Control Service, Includes Cloud Ready Packages by Windows Azure

Wade Wegner just announced in his blog post, “Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS Now Supports the Access Control Service” the release of an update to the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS . This new version of the toolkit includes three key components...
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How to write or burn a CD (CD-R) that includes CD-Text with ImgBurn by Scott Hanselman

One of the greatest, coolest, but sadly least known and least often used tech things about CDs is "CD-Text." What is it? From Wikipedia: CD-Text is an extension of the Red Book Compact Disc specifications standard for audio CDs. It allows for...
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