As I mentioned before I will intermittently post a number of links I find interesting on the topics I am working on. Windows Azure Web Sites. Would you like to publish your Web Site from Dropbox? Well now you can as discussed at https://www.dropbox.com...

I recently came across this presentation and I think it highlights that it’s possible to stay up to date on the fast moving world that is Web Development and Design. https://speakerdeck.com/chriscoyier/how-to-stay-up-to-date-on-web-technology There are...

Hello, I’ve recently solved this issue on my machine and thought I would share this with everyone. Visual Studio 2012 is configured to use IIS Express by default and on my laptop I noticed that I started to see this error. So I looked at how best to resolve...

I thought I’d put together a list of the interesting Windows 8 Sessions at Build so you can use it for your self-study. Most of the sessions are 1 hour in length. If you want to see all of the Windows 8 Sessions then this link will help you. http://channel9...

I shared this with the rest of my team today. We all support IIS and Asp.Net and I thought that these sessions from Build are very interesting. Session Name URL Running Time BUILD 2012 Day 2 Keynote http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/1-002 1 hour...

As the Asp.Net Source is now Open Source I like being able to view what has changed and what has been checked in. Here are the steps I used to do this. (With help from http://haacked.com/archive/2012/05/30/using-github-for-windows-with-non-github-repositories...

Hello, I’ve missed a couple of weeks as I had a dearth of good links to share with you. I don’t have a lot this week either but there are some interesting ones out there. Meet the new Windows Azure There was a live keynote about this last night and I...

Hello, as I mentioned a while ago I was trying to use Friday to put the links that I found most useful during the preceding week. I’ve since discovered that this might be considered a type of content curation which is a new phrase to me but one that is...

I recently worked with a customer who was migrating their site from Asp.Net Web Forms to Asp.Net MVC 3. They saw some differences in page execution time and came to us asking for more information. In this case the MVC code was slower than the equivalent...

As they say on Star Wars day “May the 4th be with you” . Here are the interesting links I have read this week with some comments Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 2011 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2012/04/26/10297848.aspx Looking forward...

Thanks to Charles Teague for providing some of the technical detail for this article. We’ll cover what the MSCS_CatalogScratch does in Commerce Server and how to maintain it either via VBScript or SQL Server Maintenance plans.   1) What’s the Catalog...

I’ve recently read this article and it really resonated with me as I have spent the best part of the last 17 years working in a cube farm. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all Here...

Last week I was on an Asp.Net MVC and HTML 5 training course. Sometimes I find it really useful to take a step back (out of the debugger) and look at how people are developing modern Web applications on the Microsoft Web Platform today. I’ve compiled...

I’ve come across this in a number of posts from my colleagues in  DPE. Last night and I went to http://www.cuttherope.ie and played this game in the browser. From an engineering point of view the interesting content is at http://www.cuttherope.ie...

I wrote an article for the MSDN UK Flash newsletter which is now published here. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukmsdn/archive/2011/05/05/msdn-flash-feature-article-iis-7-and-web-application-management-overview.aspx   Have a read and let me know what you...

I’ve seen this issue a number of times on customer systems so I thought I would blog about it.   When restoring existing Commerce Server 2009 or 2007  resource databases onto a new SQL Server you may see errors when connecting to the site. These...

I’ve not posted for a while as I’ve been working on customer issues and away on some business trips. So I thought I would start posting again by posting the Commerce Server 2009 documentation in HTML Help format. As you know the Commerce Server 2007...

Hi, Every now and then instead of an in-depth post I might post some links which I’ve shared with my team during the week or that has been sent to me. So here goes. 1) Robert McMurrary has a very good post on using the FTP 7.5 Extensibility to Dynamically...

I worked on an issue recently with a customer that was very interesting. They were using Silverlight 2.0 and this issue does not reproduce in Silverlight 3. They were using the DatePicker Control for their project and noticed that the Watermark “enter...

As Commerce Server 2009 is now out and available I thought it would be a nice idea to do a post on “Where Can I learn more about Commerce Server 2009?”. The first place to keep in your list would be the documentation that is available here. Commerce Server...

Just as note to myself here are the Silverlight Version numbers. Release Version Release Date 1.0 RTW 1.0.20816 September 4th 2007 1.0 GDR 1.0.2115.0 November 20th 2007 1.0 GDR 1.0.30109.00 January 15th 2008 1.0 GDR 1.0.30401.00 April 4th 2008 1.0 GDR...

Hello, Commerce Server 2009 is now available for MSDN Subscribers. This is discussed further at this post . There are a number of resources also detailed at the link above and these include the following. Readme and Installation Guide. The Default Site...

After my extended break I’ve been catching up on my blog reading and I’ve come across some interesting posts which I’d like to share with you. Commerce Posts. Ryan Donovan has completed an interesting series on the Architecture behind Commerce 2007. He...

I’ve been working with this a lot recently and thought I’d share some of what I found with you. You'll see that I'll refer a lot to Robert McMurray's post as he is the Program Manager for this feature in the IIS product team. First of all you can download...

This is a follow on from my last post on the Microsoft Web Platform Installer . If you haven’t read that post then go ahead and read it and I’ll wait here. Welcome back! Once again I am using my Hyper-V Windows 2008 64 Bit image. Then I go to http://www...