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IIS 7.0 Beta3 Ships with a Go-Live License
This week we shipped IIS 7.0 Beta 3 as part of the Windows "Longhorn" Server release. IIS 7.0 is the biggest release of IIS in the history of the product, and brings with it major improvements to the Microsoft web-server stack. This article and this blog post list just a few of the major improvements it delivers.
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Javascript Intellisense in Visual Studio "Orcas"
In February I did a blog post called My "First Look at Orcas" Presentation. It provided a good summary of some of the cool web development features coming with Visual Studio "Orcas". If you haven't had a chance to read it, I recommend checking it out here.
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Public Hotfix Patch for VS "Index was outside the bounds of the array" Publish Website Issue
Two weeks ago I posted about the availability of a public hotfix patch for some ASP.NET 2.0 compilation issues. You can read about this patch in my post here.
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New "Orcas" Language Feature: Query Syntax
Last month I started a series of posts covering some of the new VB and C# language features that are coming as part of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" release. Here are pointers to the first three posts in my series:
- Automatic Properties, Object Initializer and Collection Initializers
- Extension Methods
- Lambda Expressions
Today's blog post covers another fundamental new language feature: Query Syntax.
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Update of SQL Server Database Publishing Toolkit for Web Hosting
A few months ago I posted about the new SQL Server Database Publishing Hosting Toolkit built and published by the SQL Server team. You can read about what it offers and how to use it in these previous two blog posts of mine:
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Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0
A ton of great articles and tutorials on working with data in ASP.NET 2.0 applications has been published recently. This post highlights a few of them:
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Public Hotfix Patch Available for ASP.NET Compilation Issues
Over the last year we've found and fixed a few ASP.NET 2.0 compilation bugs that people have reported running into.
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New "Orcas" Language Feature: Lambda Expressions
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Tip/Trick: Enabling SSL on IIS 7.0 Using Self-Signed Certificates
SSL enables browsers to communicate with a web-server over a secure channel that prevents eavesdropping, tampering and message forgery. You should always use SSL for login pages where users are entering usernames/passwords, as well as for all other sensitive pages on sites (for example: account pages that show financial or personal information).
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JSON Hijacking and How ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Avoids these Attacks
Recently some reports have been issued by security researchers describing ways hackers can use the JSON wire format used by most popular AJAX frameworks to try and exploit cross domain scripts within browsers. Specifically, these attacks use HTTP GET requests invoked via an HTML <script src=""> include element to circumvent the "same origin policy" enforced by browsers (which limits JavaScript objects like XmlHttpRequest to only calling URLs on the same domain that the page was loaded from), and then look for ways to exploit the JSON payload content.
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Expression Products Added to MSDN
Last December Microsoft announced the new Expression Studio products. These products enable designers to build awesome user experiences, and are designed to help facilitate great designer/developer workflow collaboration on projects.
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IIS 7.0
IIS 7.0 is one of the products that my team is shipping later this year that I'm most excited about. It is the most significant release of our web-server that we've done since IIS 1.0, and introduces a huge number of improvements for both administrators and developers.