by community-syndication | Nov 12, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I am on the road next week presenting on web development enhancements in Visual Studio 2008 (which RTM’s this month!).
Are you doing web development with .NET? Come and see why upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 is a no brainer
With the release of Visual Studio 2008 looming come and join Nigel as he delivers a demo driven talk that shows off many of the new improvements for ASP.NET with .NET 3.5 and VS 2008. Highlights include VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support, Web Designer and CSS Support, Nested Master Page Support, JavaScript Intellisense and Debugging and many more Code Editing Improvements. If you are doing web development with .NET today come and see why upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 is a no brainer.
There are still a few places left in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch so register now if you haven’t already!
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Also if I have time I might take the new Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio: CTP for a spin.
by community-syndication | Nov 12, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Anyone that has customised SharePoint master pages has no doubt come across the problem where system pages won’t use your nice new master page, but rather use the application.master page instead.
The problem with customising the application.master page is that it will affect all sites on your web server farm, rather than just a specific site.
One way to fix this problem is to write an HttpModule that will intercept the calls to these system pages and replace the application.master page with your sites custom master page.
This article explains how to do it:
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dwise/archive/2007/01/08/one-master-to-rule-them-all-two-actually.aspx
by community-syndication | Nov 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Had a great time at the Memphis Day of .NET hanging around with a bunch of folks like Alan and Michael,
and getting to meet Charles Petzold.
Here’s a picture of a bunch of us after the day of classes:
by community-syndication | Nov 10, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Sergey was the dev manager of Windows Home Server and one of three people, for whom I decided to leave BizTalk Server and join Windows Home Server team. He is a remarkable person and a friend of mine. Some time ago he left Microsoft for Google, but he is still a remarkable man and a friend of mine! And not far ago he started his own blog!
Here is where he introduces himself: http://softwareandthings.blogspot.com/2007/11/about-myself.html
And here he talks about his experience with Windows Home Server development and his thoughts about comparing Microsoft and Google: http://softwareandthings.blogspot.com/2007/11/intergroup-cooperation.html
I highly recommend his blog and himself. Of course, personally. As Sergey writes in his own blogs:
**This is my personal blog. The views expressed on these pages are mine alone and not those of my employer.**
by community-syndication | Nov 10, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
While researching a problem with AWE allocating memory in SQL Server (see my previous post Using Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) with SQL Server), I found myself deep-diving into the Windows memory management model. I’d like to share my findings here to help those tasked with setting up a SQL Server instance (either for BizTalk or […]
by community-syndication | Nov 9, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
If you’ve worked with XML technologies for any reasonable amount of time, you’re aware of the considerations when dealing with “special” characters. This recently came up at work, so I thought I’d share a few quick thoughts.
One of the developers was doing an HTTP post of XML content to a .NET web service. […]
by community-syndication | Nov 9, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Last week we also announced a CTP release of the Microsoft Managed Services Engine to CodePlex. This is a very powerful set of infrastructure and tools built on WCF for supporting versioning, abstraction, management, routing and runtime policy enforcement of services in a heterogeneous environment. You definitely want to check this out if you are into the provisioning, management, and versioning of enterprise services.
-Kris
by community-syndication | Nov 9, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
If you were in either of the two standing room only ESB Guidance sessions at last week conference you heard us mention it would be released shortly. I’m pleased to say that Patterns & Practices has just released the ESB Guidance to MSDN! The MSDN site is the entry point for ESB Guidance bits, docs, and community. This is the culmination of a ton of great work that wouldn’t have been possible without the close collaboration between Microsoft and our community. Thanks to all of you that tested previous versions and provided feedback!
-Kris
by community-syndication | Nov 8, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I remember a few versions ago when Adobe Acrobat Reader was around 6MB – even then
I thought he’s a little on the large size.
Then the last few versions weighing in at 20-32MB, and the installation process involved
side stepping Toolbars, Gorillas, caching, ‘community’ accelerators – the works. Painful!!
All for the occasional PDF read.
Nelson – a friend of my put me onto FoxIt! (I’m loving the name already). Around 3.5MB
later and I’m rocking with PDF reading. Simple and it doesn’t hijack my machine looking
for new versions *every* time you start up.
Check it out here!
by community-syndication | Nov 8, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Thank you to all the folks in Little Rock for having
me, the code
from my talk can be found here.
