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CannonPI teaser video
There is a new video up on youtube that is the beginning of many more videos.  You should check it out and look for for more coming soon. Also, see if you recognize any of the people in this, feel free to post here who you think they are. Read More...
Insides of Azure
Want to get more details about Windows Azure ?  There is a really helpful video done by Channel 9 that talks about this upcoming product and how it works. I think this gives great details about the architecture and also how you will use this and Read More...
Posted 14 November 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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Windows Azure and you
So I have started to look at the new Windows Azure that we just announced, you can download the framework from here .  You can also read more about it at Azure Services Platform Developer Center . As I started looking at this, the main sample I was Read More...
Posted 11 November 08 06:00 by Tom | 4 Comments   
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IntelliSense for jQuery
As for reported here , we now have an official IntelliSense documentation file that will allow you to get rich intellisense for jQuery from inside of Visual Studio. When you go to download jQuery, you will see a Documentation link.  Or you can download Read More...
Posted 30 October 08 11:28 by Tom | 4 Comments   
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Strange callstacks
How many times have you been troubleshooting a dump or application, you look at the callstack and you see something that just doesn’t quite look right.  Chances are the problem is that you don’t have correct symbols. For example, if you see something Read More...
Posted 29 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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XPerf: A CPU Sampler
Seema just had a great about using XPerf to troubleshoot CPU issues when using Silverlight.  This can also be used in the same way to troubleshoot ASP.NET or IIS. What can XPerf tell you?  Seema answers that question, it can find out: Is my Read More...
ASP.NET Tip: When to use which Session Server
There are 3 different ways you can store session in an ASP.NET application: InProc (default mode) State Server SQL Server InProc means we store the data in the same process (in memory) on the web server, in the worker process.  This has some distinct Read More...
Posted 03 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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ASP.NET Tip: Letting Microsoft know about your problems/requests
Not sure if everyone knows of the various options that there are for communicating with Microsoft so I wanted to let you know about some of them here. Bugs or problems You can log these on the various forums that we have, the forums are found here .  Read More...
Event Log message after installing .NET update – part 2
If you try to install a .NET update, MS07-040 for example, you may see an event log like: Event Type: Error Event Source: LoadPerf Event Category: None Event ID: 3009 · Installing the performance counter strings for .NETFramework failed. The Error code Read More...
Posted 29 September 08 03:25 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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The PDC this year…
Not sure how many people are planning on attending the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) this year, but it is going to be a fantastic conference. We announced some huge announcements on the PDC web site.  http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ We have Read More...
Event Log message after installing .NET update
If you try to install a .NET update, MS08-052 for example, you may see an event log that looks like: Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0 Event ID: 1018 · Failed while registering ASP.NET (version 2.0.50727.0) in IIS. Error code: 0x80070003 This message Read More...
Posted 26 September 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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ASP.NET Tip: How to avoid creating a GC Hole
There are only a few things that can make a .NET process crash.  The most common one is an Unhandled Exception getting raised.  Another way that is can happen is by creating a GC Hole. What is a GC Hole So first a little background on what I Read More...
Posted 25 September 08 06:00 by Tom | 5 Comments   
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POP QUIZ: What’s wrong with this code – part 3
Imagine you are a developer and your boss comes to you complaining that your piece of code has been deemed to be taking up too much memory and causing problems for the application.  You take a look at your code and you see the following, assume that Read More...
High Memory part 6 – Fragmentation revisited
I have talked about a bunch of commands used to troubleshoot a managed memory problem in the past and given some situations of using them like: High memory, CPU, or other performance problems with .NET High Memory continued - Datatables High Memory part Read More...
How does maxconnection work for a System.Net.HttpWebRequest using a proxy?
When using a WebRequest, one important thing to keep in mind is how many connections are allowed to be made to the same server.  The maxConnection setting will affect how many connections you can concurrently have to a given server.  When you Read More...
Posted 16 September 08 06:00 by Tom | 6 Comments   
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