Guidance Explorer: enabling discovery, composition and consumption

submitted by wisemx 6 hours, 46 minutes ago

blogs.msdn.com — Several of our MVPs just recently “discovered” the Guidance Explorer project run by our very on patterns & practices team even though it’s been released for some time now. Since this was a surprise to many of them, I figured it’d be good mention it more broadly in case others might find it useful. As you hopefully know by now, the p&p team is all about providing guidance to architects and developers interested in learning more about how to apply Microsoft’s technologies to common application development scenarios. They produce a ton of content and often times customers want to customize the organization of that guidance to make it easier to access and navigate. read more...

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Things to know for hosting your ASP.NET MVC app

weblogs.asp.net — When you are planning to host your asp.net MVC application under IIS7 integrated mode environment. There are few easy tweaks that can make your application or starter kit work right out of the box but also can save a lot of your time finding things out. You might see a Http 404 page if default document is not configured properly. The one way of getting this around by using the following .. read more...

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Mapping a different file extension for ASPX Pages in IIS 7.0

submitted by wisemx 1 day, 23 hours ago

blogs.iis.net — So just by adding a new handler (ASPNETLikeHandler above) to the System.WebServer/Handlers will cause IIS to see this extension and correctly execute the page. Note that we use the preCondition attribute to tell IIS that this handler should only be used when we are running in an Integrated Pipeline Application Pool. read more...

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How to Customize Expression Media Silverlight Galleries

submitted by wisemx 3 days, 1 hour ago

blogs.msdn.com — Expression Media 2 includes support for publishing your catalogs as Silverlight galleries. Felix Andrew, who is the architect for Expression Media, recently wrote a nice article on how to customize one of the samples that is shipped with Expression Blend 2. Felix and I shot an 11 minute video earlier this week where he walks us through the process and shows the end result as well as all the steps in between. read more...

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Using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET 1.4

submitted by razorant 3 days, 6 hours ago

nyveldt.com — Now that the latest version of BlogEngine.NET is out, it is easier than ever to get your blog running with VistaDB Express. I’ve been using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET for a little while now and just love it.... read more...

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RSS Reporter free for 4th - free 5 license pack for first 1000 users

coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com — xSQL Software is giving away, to the first 1000 people, a 5 license pack for their RSS Reporter product. That’s free free, no credit card or anything required read more...

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Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

lovethedot.blogspot.com — Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better. read more...

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How to Generate an RSS Feed with Argotic

dimecasts.net — A short screencasts walking you through how to generate an RSS Feed with Argotic RSS framework. read more...

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