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Free IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 RTW

Ward Ralston — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:39:04 GMT

Ward Ralston writes, "...URL Rewriter makes Web addresses simple for customers to remember and search engines to find.,,There are now several new scenarios available...URL Rewriter permits Web administrators to easily replace the URLs generated by a Web application in the response HTML with..." more

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:39:04 GMT

Understanding the TCP Sequence of Steps for Socket Closing

Jane Lewis — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:27:13 GMT

Jane Lewis writes, "...So what do the “State” actually mean. And what is the significance of Close_Wait...As the TCP conversation is a ports and sockets sequence, to understand how to troubleshoot it and carry out root cause analysis...the explanation for a close_wait situation is..." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:27:13 GMT

Strengthening Your Domain: Encapsulated Collections

Jimmy Bogard — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:00:55 GMT

Jimmy Bogard writes, "...When I create an Order, the domain model takes care of the relationship between Customer and Order without any additional manipulation. If I publicly expose a collection class, I’m opening the doors for confusion and future bugs as I’ve now allowed my system to tinker with the implementation details of the relationship. It’s my belief..." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:00:55 GMT

Code to Easily Rotate the Axis Labels of a Silverlight/WPF Toolkit Chart

David Anson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:32:52 GMT

David Anson writes, "The typical scenario here is that someone has a chart and it's working well, but their axis labels are very long and end up overlapping - even after the default axis behavior of putting them in alternating rows to prevent such a problem kicks in...here's the complete code for the sample..." more

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:32:52 GMT

WPF Silverlight Quick Tip: INotifyPropertyChanged for Indexer

Pete Brown — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:28:39 GMT

Pete Brown writes, "...WPF and Silverlight allow you to bind to property indexers by string key or numeric index...The binding system is looking for a property named "Item[]". In your own setter, the notify would look something like this...The case of "Item[]" is important; if you change the case, the binding system won't recognize it." more

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:28:39 GMT

Code Sample Binding to a Dictionary in WPF and Silverlight

Pete Brown — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:30:38 GMT

Pete Brown writes, "...To bind to an element by a string key, you need to include the key inside brackets, just as you would in C# code. You omit any quotes, though...Here's a quick example that shows binding to the dictionary, using a simple code-behind approach..." more

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:30:38 GMT

How to Validate Open XML Documents Using the Open XML SDK 2.0

Eric White — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:55:32 GMT

Eric White writes, "...I wrote a small program to crawl a directory tree and programmatically alter or transform each document in every directory, and then validate. This allowed me to run the code on thousands of documents, making sure that the code would not create invalid documents. The use of the validator is simple:..." more

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:55:32 GMT

Why You Need Two Access Keys for Azure Storage

Jennifer Marsman — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:59:04 GMT

Jennifer Marsman writes, "...So why do we have two access keys? It’s for rolling key changes. If you want to change the key (which is probably a good idea to do every once in a while in case it gets leaked somehow), you would have some downtime if there was only one key available. The scenario would be..." more

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:59:04 GMT

I Owe $282.06 for Azure Usage Charges on an MSDN Subscription

Ken Cox — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:52:10 GMT

Ken Cox writes, "...I’ve been using my complimentary Microsoft MVP MSDN Premium subscription...I left up those trivial deployments and used 2,979 compute hours...Lesson learned: Windows Azure is expensive and..." more

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:52:10 GMT

IE 6 Resistance Continues in Moving to Version 8

Harry Waldron — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:44:20 GMT

Harry Waldron writes, "Companies and individuals will truly enhance their web security by moving from IE6 to the latest version of Internet Explorer. As noted in the article, many users are unaware of the benefits, as some IE6 security exposures will never be addressed and are a conduit for spyware attacks. Small companies may lack..." more

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:44:20 GMT

Troubleshooting TCP Offloading With Four Steps

PSS SQL Engineers — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:10:01 GMT

PSS SQL Engineers writes, "I have spent probably hundreds of hours on cases involving TCP Offloading and I know most of the signs... have to admit I got burned by it the other day and spent several more hours working an issue than I should have...my standard steps for capturing network traces to include NIC level TCP Offload settings!...my first four steps..." more

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:10:01 GMT

Free Web Application Toolkits

Katrien DeGraeve — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:05:28 GMT

Katrien DeGraeve writes, "...Web Application Toolkits are a set of ready to use kits with samples and controls that help ASP.NET developers quickly work out common web scenarios...Really well worth a look! This is the collection of toolkits available today..." more

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:05:28 GMT

Finding the Remote Client Address

Nicholas Allen — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:28:53 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "...You can access the client address through any mechanism for looking at the message properties attached to the message...You can decide what to do about a missing client address depending on how you're planning to use it. What you shouldn't use it for is making security decisions. It's possible in some cases for a malicious client to" more

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:28:53 GMT

Building an Embodied Social Proxy

Scott Hanselman — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:37:47 GMT

Scott Hanselman writes, "...the idea is that you want a physical stand-in for yourself. Sure, people can call me and contact me in any of a dozen ways...I'm in the address list, I'm on chat...I've done all this and more to integrate with headquarters. However, out of sight, out of mind is really true. People subconsciously or not like to associate something physical with you. So..." more

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:37:47 GMT

Troubleshooting TFS Proxy Server Unexpected Shutdowns

Adam Buenz — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:30:13 GMT

Adam Buenz writes, "...Recently, a strange issue was occurring with my clients geo-environment where the proxy servers would start shutting down repetitively. The exact error you may run into is...If you get this error, the TfsNameUrl appsetting is not configured in the web.config file for the proxy server. Locate the:..." more

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:30:13 GMT

Parsing and Summarizing the Windows Azure Platform

JD Meier — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:14:56 GMT

JD Meier writes, "...You can use the Windows Azure Platform from your applications running in the cloud and from on-premises applications. For example, you might access data in the cloud from an on-premises app, or you might access local user accounts from an app in the cloud...." more

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:14:56 GMT

Visual Model of Cloud Computing Concepts

JD Meier — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:21:40 GMT

JD Meier writes, "...Aside from providing a simple lens for looking at cloud computing, this model also helps us find important or interesting intersections across various cloud efforts in the industry. For example, this can help us connect the dots to NIST’s cloud computing work. We can find useful intersections at a model level, without" more

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:21:40 GMT

Resolving Add TCP/IP printer Access Denied Error

Vitalie Ciobanu — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:20:51 GMT

Vitalie Ciobanu writes, "...The problem was that I tried to install the printer while I was logged on with a user that had domain admin privileges, but not the default domain Administrator account. When I logged in with..." more

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:20:51 GMT

Asure Platform Discussed at the Architectural Level

Philippe Destoop — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:47:31 GMT

Philippe Destoop writes, "...The article provides a great overview of the different cloud types available before diving into the Windows Azure platform. The latter gets presented from a conceptual, logical and technical view covering several architecture aspects such as security, deployment, scalability etc. A very interesting read..." more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:47:31 GMT

Additional Steps Required Using ForeFront TMG to Get Active FTP Working

Adam Buenz — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:09:45 GMT

Adam Buenz writes, "...there are some additional steps required when using ForeFront TMG in order to get Active FTP working, which in ISA 2006 was accomplished by merely unchecking the read-only checkbox on the rule and configuring Windows Firewall. In TMG the process requires..." more

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:09:45 GMT