Web and Cloud

Dealing with Images with Bad Metadata - Corrupted Color Profiles in WPF

Scott Hanselman — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:03:27 GMT

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...(read more)

Web Farm Framework 2.0 overview

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:00:28 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Scott Hanselman — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:17:50 GMT

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...(read more)

I Miss You SQL Server Agent: Part 1

SQL Azure Team Blog — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:37:06 GMT

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...(read more)

VS 2010 Web Deployment

ScottGu's Blog — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:36:56 GMT

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...(read more)

FTP Clients - Part 9: Expression Web 4

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:27:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Azure AppFabric LABS August Release, Breaking Changes Announcement and Scheduled Maintenance

Windows Azure platform AppFabric Team Blog — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:58:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Troubleshoot ASP.NET Errors Remotely–while Appearing Local

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:04:16 GMT

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...(read more)

Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Arzeda Corp.

Windows Azure — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Programmatically Changing the Firewall Settings

SQL Azure Team Blog — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:03:34 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 - First Impressions

Scott Hanselman — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:46:33 GMT

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...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts

ScottGu's Blog — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:51:51 GMT

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...(read more)

WebMatrix Publishing – Common errors and workarounds

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:01:51 GMT

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...(read more)

Serving external traffic with WebMatrix Beta

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:38:52 GMT

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...(read more)

Understanding the Procedure Cache on SQL Azure

SQL Azure Team Blog — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:00:51 GMT

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...(read more)