Monday, September 28, 2009

Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines

Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines

Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 01:15 PM PDT

I had a great time at the the Belgium Visual Studio User's Group meeting.  The turn out was excellent.  Thanks especially to Gill Cleeren   and Pieter Gheysens for hosting it.  Gill asked me to talk about Framework Design Guidelines – I subject near and dear to my heart.   I decided to do a bit of a look back over the last 10 years of framework design (we started  what would later become the CLR about 10 years ago)..    It is really fun to look at what has changed and what has not.      Thanks to the great folks at Addison-Wesley i was able to give away a few copies of the book as well.     Afterwards, we got to talking about how this stuff is actually the easy part...(read more)

An early look at the new Project Rosetta tutorial site

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 11:22 AM PDT

One of the projects I'm working on this year is the revitalization of the Project Rosetta site. The goal of the site is to provide tutorials for designers and UI developers demonstrating how to use existing skills with new technologies. The first...( read more )...(read more)

Microsoft Web Application Toolkits

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 06:58 AM PDT

Web Application Toolkits are designed to enable Web Developers to simply extend their web application capabilities by providing them with a packaged set of running samples, templates and documentation. The goal for the Web Application Toolkits is to provide Web Developers with resources such as project templates, controls, and code samples along with simplified documentation all in a consistent packaged format that is easy to download and run in a very short period of time. One of the key criteria around the Web Application Toolkits is to enable Web Developers to get to an F5 (Run) experience very quickly to ensure that this is the right solution for their problem; How many times have you heard developers trying for hours to get a sample to...(read more)

Web Deployment Tool has gone RTW

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 06:06 AM PDT

After 2 years of development and lots of customer feedback, Microsoft is proud to announce that the Web Deployment Tool has gone  RTW version 1.0! You can now download the RTW version and use it in production, and it is fully supported by Microsoft Support. Install our 1.0 RTW release from http://www.iis.net/webdeploymenttool , available in x86 and x64. Version 1.0, includes the following components: Powerful APIs that allow you to deploy, sync and migrate web applications on IIS, and perform granular operations like changing IP bindings, site names and changing file structures on the fly. You can also create a new provider to sync a new type of resource. Command-line tool (msdeploy.exe) that allows you to perform all the same operations...(read more)

Dev10 Beta1, Deploy Web application with SQL Express mdf file to host’s SQL server

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 09:40 PM PDT

For many web applications developed using Visual Studio, developers uses SQL express with mdf database file under app_data folder.  If deploying data host requires SQL server, developers have to find ways to deploy the schema and data from mdf file to the host SQL server. Dev10 Beta1 provides an easy solution to publish the mdf file to the SQL Server host along with other application files.  Here's a walkthrough. 1. Create a new web application, create a SQL Server Database under app_data folder.  Add some tables to the database, drag a table to the default.aspx designer.  Ctrl-F5 to test it making sure it works. 2. Check the web.config file, note it has a connection string such as following: < connectionStrings > <...(read more)

Tip#96: Did you know…You could publish your SQL databases using the SQL Publishing Wizard?

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 04:05 PM PDT

You can use the SQL Publishing wizard in VS 2008/VWD 2008 to deploy a local database from your development machine to a hosting environment on a remote machine. This is how you will accomplish this: Step 1: Create a new web site by selecting menu File...(read more)
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