Web and Cloud

Dealing with Images with Bad Metadata - Corrupted Color Profiles in WPF by Scott Hanselman

Creating a Twitter client is a really interesting exercise in application development because, amongst many reasons, it's taking input from effectively an infinite number of people and places. Never trust user input, right? Input to your application...

Filed under: WPF, Windows Client, Bugs

Web Farm Framework 2.0 overview by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

IIS team has recently released a Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta . The goal of the Web Farm Framework is to enable easy provisioning, deployment and managing of web farms. This blog post provides an example of what Web Farm Framework can do and how it can...

Filed under: Other, Web Farm

Microsoft "Daily Build" Nerd Dinner - August 4th in Seattle, Redmond by Scott Hanselman

Are you in King County/Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Washington and surrounding areas? Are you a huge nerd ? Perhaps a geek ? No? Maybe a dork , dweeb or wonk . Maybe you're in town for an SDR (Software Design Review) or VSLive ! Quite possibly you're...

Filed under: ASP.NET, IIS, NerdDinner

I Miss You SQL Server Agent: Part 1 by SQL Azure Team Blog

Currently, SQL Azure doesn’t support running SQL Server Agent in the cloud. If you need SQL Server Agent type functionality for SQL Azure, you can use a Windows Azure worker role and some custom code, I will show you how in this blog post series. “Secret...

VS 2010 Web Deployment by ScottGu's Blog

This is the twenty-fifth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post is the first of several posts I’ll be doing that cover some of the improvements we’ve made around web deployment. I’ll provide a high...

Filed under: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, .NET

FTP Clients - Part 9: Expression Web 4 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

For this installment in my series about FTP Clients I'm going to review the FTP features in Microsoft's Expression Web 4 (EW4). You can find out more about the Microsoft Expression series of products from the following URL: http://www.microsoft...

Filed under: FTP

Windows Azure AppFabric LABS August Release, Breaking Changes Announcement and Scheduled Maintenance by Windows Azure platform AppFabric Team Blog

The Windows Azure AppFabric LABS August release is expected to be released on August 5, 2010 (Thursday). Users will have NO access to the AppFabric LABS portal and services during the scheduled maintenance down time. When: START: August 5, 2010, 10am...

Troubleshoot ASP.NET Errors Remotely–while Appearing Local by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

For years I’ve wanted to be able to troubleshoot website remotely by seeing the detailed error report, while ensuring that other users on the web only see the friendly non-detailed error. This is now possible with URL Rewrite 2.0. Through a simple rule...

Filed under: ASP.NET, IIS7, IIS, URL Rewrite

Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Arzeda Corp. by Windows Azure

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Alexandre Zanghellini, Cofounder at Arzeda, and Yih-En Andrew Ban, Project Leader and Scientist at Arzeda, about using the Windows Azure platform to power the company's compute-heavy enzyme...

Programmatically Changing the Firewall Settings by SQL Azure Team Blog

SQL Azure has two types of access control: SQL Authentication logins and passwords and a server side firewall that restricts access by IP address. This blog post will discuss how to programmatically modify the firewall settings. For information about...

Windows Phone 7 - First Impressions by Scott Hanselman

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft in MSDN . I don't work for or with the Windows Phone 7 team in any capacity. I do know one guy over there, though. That said, I personally have an iPhone 3G (dead, the kids pay Monkey Island on it), a iPhone 3GS (the...

Filed under: WinPhone

Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts by ScottGu's Blog

Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters . These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice “cheat sheet” tables that can help you quickly lookup...

Filed under: Community News, Visual Studio, .NET

WebMatrix Publishing – Common errors and workarounds by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I have always felt that publishing a site so it works on your remote server is a little bit of a black art. Many stars have to align: Files and databases have to transfer Settings such as connection strings have to transform to remote values Remote server...

Serving external traffic with WebMatrix Beta by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You will notice in WebMatrix Beta that the default website as well as new ones you create are bound to localhost. In other words, they can service local traffic only. This default behavior makes a lot of sense since we want users to explicitly opt into...

Understanding the Procedure Cache on SQL Azure by SQL Azure Team Blog

Both SQL Server and SQL Azure have a procedure cache which is used to improve the performance of queries on the server. This blog post will talk about how the procedure cache works on SQL Azure. SQL Azure has a pool of memory that is used to store both...