Habib Heydarian's Blog @ Microsoft : Announcements

RUNTIME turns 100,000!

habibh — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:53:55 GMT

Today represents a huge personal milestone. My car reached a 100,000 miles! There is nothing unique or special about my car except the license plate and the Visual Studio logo on the hood. Most of my friends refer to the car as RUNTIME (for obvious reasons).

I purchased it when I first joined Microsoft from my first manager and have had it since then. It's a great little utility truck.

Habib Heydarian.

How to install IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 using the Command Line

habibh — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:09:00 GMT

On Windows Vista, to install IIS 7.0 from the command line, you can use a tool called the Windows Package Manager (Pkgmgr.exe). For example, the command line for installing IIS 7. 0 on Windows Vista might look something like the following depending on how many IIS features you want to install:

start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;IIS-HttpRedirect;

This has changed in Windows 7. In Windows 7, the Package Manager is deprecated and replaced with the Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM.exe) tool. To install IIS 7.5 on Windows 7, you use DISM.exe to target the running operating system (using the /Online switch) and use the /Enable-Feature option to enable individual IIS features. Below is the command line for installing all of IIS 7.5 features on Windows 7. NOTE: I have put each feature on a separate line to make it easier to read. In practice, the entire command line needs to be on a single line.

START /WAIT DISM /Online /Enable-Feature
/FeatureName:IIS-ApplicationDevelopment
/FeatureName:IIS-ASP
/FeatureName:IIS-ASPNET
/FeatureName:IIS-BasicAuthentication
/FeatureName:IIS-CGI
/FeatureName:IIS-ClientCertificateMappingAuthentication
/FeatureName:IIS-CommonHttpFeatures
/FeatureName:IIS-CustomLogging
/FeatureName:IIS-DefaultDocument
/FeatureName:IIS-DigestAuthentication
/FeatureName:IIS-DirectoryBrowsing
/FeatureName:IIS-FTPExtensibility
/FeatureName:IIS-FTPServer
/FeatureName:IIS-FTPSvc
/FeatureName:IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics
/FeatureName:IIS-HostableWebCore
/FeatureName:IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic
/FeatureName:IIS-HttpCompressionStatic
/FeatureName:IIS-HttpErrors
/FeatureName:IIS-HttpLogging
/FeatureName:IIS-HttpRedirect
/FeatureName:IIS-HttpTracing
/FeatureName:IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility
/FeatureName:IIS-IISCertificateMappingAuthentication
/FeatureName:IIS-IPSecurity
/FeatureName:IIS-ISAPIExtensions
/FeatureName:IIS-ISAPIFilter
/FeatureName:IIS-LegacyScripts
/FeatureName:IIS-LegacySnapIn
/FeatureName:IIS-LoggingLibraries
/FeatureName:IIS-ManagementConsole
/FeatureName:IIS-ManagementScriptingTools
/FeatureName:IIS-ManagementService
/FeatureName:IIS-Metabase
/FeatureName:IIS-NetFxExtensibility
/FeatureName:IIS-ODBCLogging
/FeatureName:IIS-Performance
/FeatureName:IIS-RequestFiltering
/FeatureName:IIS-RequestMonitor
/FeatureName:IIS-Security
/FeatureName:IIS-ServerSideIncludes
/FeatureName:IIS-StaticContent
/FeatureName:IIS-URLAuthorization
/FeatureName:IIS-WebDAV
/FeatureName:IIS-WebServer
/FeatureName:IIS-WebServerManagementTools
/FeatureName:IIS-WebServerRole
/FeatureName:IIS-WindowsAuthentication
/FeatureName:IIS-WMICompatibility
/FeatureName:WAS-ConfigurationAPI
/FeatureName:WAS-NetFxEnvironment
/FeatureName:WAS-ProcessModel
/FeatureName:WAS-WindowsActivationService

Habib Heydarian.

Getting Windows Mobile Device Center to work on Windows Server 2008 R2

habibh — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:52:00 GMT

When you try to install Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 (drvupdate-amd64.exe) on Windows Server 2008 R2, you'll probably end up with the following cryptic error message which isn't very helpful:

Windows Mobile Device Center Driver Update
------------------------------------------

The update could not be installed because at least one
Windows component required by Windows Mobile Device Center
is missing

[OK]

The root cause of this problem is that on Windows Server 2008 R2, the Desktop Experience server feature is disabled by default and Windows Mobile Device Center requires the Desktop Experience feature in order to work.

To enable Desktop Experience, start Server Manager and select the Features node from the left hand side of the Server Manager. In the Features pane click the "Add Features" link which will display the Select Features dialog, shown below. On the Select Features dialog, check the "Desktop Experience" node and click the [Install] button. After installing the feature, you'll be asked to restart your computer.

Habib Heydarian.

Just released: Patch to make NetCFSvcUtil.exe work on Windows 7 (and other operating systems)

habibh — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:31:00 GMT

In an earlier blog post, I mentioned that NetCFSvcUtil.exe (available as part of Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5) is broken on the following operating systems:

Window 7 RTM
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Vista SP2
Windows Server 2008 SP2

Specifically, when you try to run NetCFSvcUtil.exe on these operating systems, you might see the following error message:

Error: An error occurred in the tool.

Error: Error in the application.

The good news is that the Windows Mobile Developer team released a patch today that fixes this problem. You can download the new version of NetCFSvcUtil from here.

Habib Heydarian.

PDC 2009: Developing Quality Software using Visual Studio Team System 2010

habibh — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:11:00 GMT

Software quality is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. At PDC 2009 this year, there is full day workshop on how to use Visual Studio Team System 2010 to develop high quality software. I'm really excited about this workshop since it covers a lot of the features that my team works on including the debugger, profiler, code analysis, Historical Debugger, code coverage, etc.

By the way, if you are heading down to PDC09, feel free to drop by the Visual Studio Team System booth for a chat. Who knows, I might also be giving a talk or two on the new developer features in Team System 2010.

Habib Heydarian.

New VSTS "Pep Talk" Videos

habibh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:05:18 GMT

Today, our marketing team released a set of very funny VSTS "pep talk" videos. Here is one of them.

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/teamsystem/default.mspx?pt_id=690_2

Thanks,

HabibH.

Where to Download "The Goods" for PDC 2008

habibh — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:11:00 GMT

At last week’s PDC conference, the attendees were given a 160 GB USB External HDD that contains a slew of content which includes a number of SDKs, whitepapers, etc. This content is collectively known as "The Goods". The great news is that most of this content is available for download. Below, I have listed what is included in "The Goods" and where you can download it.

.NET Micro Framework SDK v3.0

.NET Micro Framework SDK for embedded development, includes device emulator.

Microsoft .NET Micro Framework SDK Version 3.0

.NET Services SDK

The .NET Services SDK includes APIs, libraries, samples, and documentation for building applications with the three .NET Services: the Access Control Service, the Service Bus and the Workflow Service.

Azure Services Training Kit

Azure Services Training Kit includes hands-on labs, presentations, and samples to help you understand how to utilize Azure Services. Please note: The content in this kit requires you to have registered developer accounts for the Azure Services.

Azure Services Training Kit - PDC Preview

Microsoft Blueprints

Microsoft Blueprints are collections of process and resources to help you produce a specific type of deliverable such as a library, framework or application; you can think them as task-specific SDKs which will be provided by Microsoft as well as you can build your own.

Microsoft Blueprints

Highly Productive Computing: Developing for the Windows HPC Server 2008 Platform

Whitepaper on developer technologies for the Windows HPC Server 2008 platform.

Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio and the Live Framework SDK

The Live Framework SDK provides developers with documentation, samples, tools and APIs needed to build rich, connected, data-sharing applications using Live Services. The Live Framework Tools extend Visual Studio 2008 to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of Mesh Applications that utilize the Live Framework.

Windows Live Framework

Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1: Pre-Beta

The Windows SDK contains documentation, samples, headers, libraries, and tools designed to help you develop Windows applications.

OEM Ready Tools

Software Qualification Tools for the OEM Ready Program.

OEM Ready Program Tools and Documentation

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Express Edition

Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Express Edition is a freely available .NET-based programming environment for building robotics applications. The Express Edition is fully functional version but has a feature set that better targets the non-professional developer and hobbyist.

Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for developing Silverlight 2 applications.

Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Taking Parallelism Mainstream
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 leads the first wave of developer tools to simplify the mainstream transition to parallel software development.

Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

The Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4.0 CTP Virtual PC Image

Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition with Service Pack 1

An easy-to-use environment for dynamic Web application development.

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition with Service Pack 1

WCF and WF 4.0, “Oslo”, & “Dublin” PDC08 Virtual Machine

Applications and supporting materials that demonstrate the innovations in WCF and WF 4.0, “Oslo” modeling platform and the Windows Application Server enhancements codenamed “Dublin”.

Microsoft WCF LOB Adapters SDK 2.0

WCF LOB Adapter SDK 2.0 (ASDK V2) is the WCF-service model based framework for writing WCF-based adapters for line-of-business (LOB) systems like SAP. The BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.5, which is built on top of WCF LOB Adapter SDK 2.0, constitutes the SAP adapter to create SAP services which in turn can be consumed by .NET applications.

WCF REST Starter Kit Community Technology Preview

WCF REST Starter Kit provides features and guidance to enable quickly developing RESTful Services using WCF.

WCF REST Starter Kit

Windows 7 Ultimate ISO

Burn your own Windows 7 Ultimate DVD using these 32bit & 64bit ISO files.

Windows 7 Whitepapers

These collection of whitepapers will help you get started developing on Windows 7.

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio and the Windows Azure SDK

Windows Azure SDK provides developers APIs, tools, documentation and samples needed to develop applications for internet scale on Windows Azure. Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable services on Windows Azure.

Windows Azure Software Development Kit (October 2008 CTP)

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio October 2008 CTP

Windows Media Center Software Development Kit

Documentation, tools and sample code for developing Windows Media Center applications and services.

Windows Server 2008 R2 ISO

Pre-Beta release of Windows Server 2008 R2 for testing purposes only.

SharePoint Developer Introductory Hands on Labs on a Virtual Machine

A set of hands on labs for .NET developer that provide an introduction to SharePoint Development.

Habib Heydarian.