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August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:23:36 GMT

Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share...(read more)

How to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically with PowerShell and possibly poke yourself in the eye

Scott Hanselman — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:53:47 GMT

I've heard and seen lots of complaints about how it's hard to set the default browser that Visual Studio launches when you launch a debug session for a website. Step 0 - Adequate Folks spend time hunting around the Tools|Options dialog in Visual...(read more)

Hanselminutes Podcast 227 - Inside Expression SuperPreview with developer Mike Calvo

Scott Hanselman — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:15:33 GMT

Scott talks to Mike Calvo, a Microsoft Lead Developer based out of Minnesota (!) about Expression SuperPreview. SuperPreview helps developers and designers with cross-browser CSS and HTML issues. How'd they build it and with what? What's inside...(read more)

The Weekly Source Code 56 - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM Interop

Scott Hanselman — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:07:55 GMT

Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit . It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the...(read more)

How to Post Code To Your Blog and other Religious Arguments

Scott Hanselman — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:28:41 GMT

If you've got a programming blog, chances are you'll want to post some code snippets. Posting code sounds easy but it's surprisingly tricky if you consider all the ways that people will be reading your blog. There's a number of ways. Here's...(read more)

Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta released!

The Official Microsoft IIS Site — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:09:04 GMT

Last week my team released a super powerful update to our Web Farm Framework project aimed at dramatically simplifying the complexity of managing a Web farm (many computers running one or more Web sites). Web Farm Framework 2.0 (WFF) allows users...(read more)

Using EF “Code First” with an Existing Database

ScottGu's Blog — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:09:12 GMT

Last month I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. EF “code-first” enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to: Work with data without ever having to...(read more)

London “Guathon” Event with Me on August 13th

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:33:13 GMT

The (awesome) UK developer community is holding an all day event with me in London on August 13th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the event is here . Content...(read more)

The Weekly Source Code 55 - NotABlog: A Local XML-RPC MetaWebLog Endpoint That Lies To Windows Live Writer

Scott Hanselman — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:15:03 GMT

My team has to write a lot. We write some blog posts, sure, but we also write a lot of tutorials for various sites. Right now the http://www.asp.net site runs on Umbraco , but MSDN runs on custom internal what-not, and there's other sites as well...(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)

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)

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)

ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 Released – Channel 9 Video and Hanselminutes Podcast 224, Oh My!

Scott Hanselman — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:51:58 GMT

Phil and friends released ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 today. I snuck into the office of Phil Haack and Morgan the Canadian Intern to talk about the release of ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and some of the cool "futures" stuff that Morgan (and our fleet...(read more)

Introducing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Preview 1)

ScottGu's Blog — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:06:23 GMT

This morning we posted the “Preview 1” release of ASP.NET MVC 3. You can download it here . We’ve used an iterative development approach from the very beginning of the ASP.NET MVC project, and deliver regular preview drops throughout the development...(read more)

Entity Framework 4 “Code-First” - Custom Database Schema Mapping

ScottGu's Blog — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:09:00 GMT

Last week I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. The EF “code-first” option enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to: Develop without ever having...(read more)