ScottGu's Blog
Scott Guthrie lives in Seattle and builds a few products for Microsoft
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Introducing the Microsoft Web Farm Framework
Last month we released a beta of the Microsoft Web Farm Framework. The Microsoft Web Farm Framework is a free product we are shipping that enables you to easily provision and mange a farm of web servers. It enables you to automate the installation and configuration of platform components across the server farm, and enables you to automatically synchronize and deploy ASP.NET applications across them. It also supports integration with load balancers - and enables you to automate updates across your servers so that your site/application is never down or unavailable to customers (it can automatically pull servers one-at-a-time out of the load balancer rotation, update them, and then inject them back into rotation).
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Los Angeles Web Camp
A few months ago I blogged about some Web Camp events that Microsoft is sponsoring around the world. These events provide a great way to learn about ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Visual Studio 2010. The events are free and the feedback from people attending them has been great. We are working to setup many more web camps around the world in the months ahead.
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August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on.
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Patch for VS 2010 Find and Replace Dialog Growing
One of the top reported Microsoft Connect issues with VS 2010 has been an issue with the Find and Replace dialog – which grows 16px each time you use it (which is pretty annoying).
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Search and Navigation Tips/Tricks with Visual Studio
This is the twenty-seventh in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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Debugging Tips with Visual Studio 2010
This is the twenty-sixth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.
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“Unplugged” online chat with me this Wednesday
I just got back from my trip to India and the UK last week – and will be returning to more regular blogging shortly.
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Some nice code editor features provided by the VS 2010 Power Tool Extensions
I’ve blogged in the past about the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions – a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some nice additional functionality.
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Using EF “Code First” with an Existing Database
Last month I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option. EF “code-first” enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data. It enables you to:
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London “Guathon” Event with Me on August 13th
The (awesome) UK developer community is holding an all day event with me in London on August 13th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the event is here.