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Monday, January 16, 2012

Windows Azure

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 1/16/2012 6:35:57 AM

As some of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the last 6 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to run the teams that build ASP.NET, core pieces of .NET and VS, and a bunch of other products too). I’m pretty excited about where we are going with Windows Azure – it is going to enable a number of great new scenarios for developers.  Over the next few months I’m going to be blogging a lot more about it – and I’ll cover both wha ...

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Thursday, Dec 29th

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 12/29/2011 4:59:54 AM

A few minutes ago Microsoft released an advance notification security bulletin announcing that we are releasing an out-of-band security update to address an ASP.NET Security Vulnerability. Dec 29th Update: the security update (MS11-100) has now shipped and is available to install via Windows Update, the Windows Server Update Service and as a download from the Microsoft Download Center. The security update we are releasing resolves a publicly disclosed Denial of Service issue present in all ...

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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday (Dec 13th)

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 12/7/2011 10:29:39 PM

As some of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the last 6 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to work on ASP.NET, .NET, VS and a bunch of other products). Next Tuesday, Dec 13th we’ll be holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers.  It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides.  You can attend the event either by watching it streamed LIVE online, or by attending in p ...

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Friday, December 02, 2011

New CSS Editor Improvements in Visual Studio (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 12/2/2011 9:06:43 PM

This is the seventh in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5. The next release of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities.  With ASP.NET 4.5 you'll see a bunch of really nice runtime and tooling improvements with both Web Forms and MVC - as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post covers some of the improvements we are adding to the next release of Visual Studio to make working with CSS and CSS3 even b ...

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Monday, November 28, 2011

New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 11/28/2011 4:58:52 AM

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5. The next release of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities.  With ASP.NET 4.5 you'll see a bunch of really nice improvements with both Web Forms and MVC - as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post covers some of the work we are doing to add built-in support for bundling and minification into ASP.NET - which makes it easy to improve the perf ...

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Monday, October 31, 2011

Web Forms Model Binding Part 3: Updating and Validation (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 10/31/2011 12:28:00 AM

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5.The next releases of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities.  With ASP.NET 4.5 you'll see a bunch of really nice improvements with both Web Forms and MVC - as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon.Today's post is the third of three posts in the series that talk about the new Model Binding support coming to Web Forms.  Model Binding is an extension of ...

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Web Forms Model Binding Part 2: Filtering Data (ASP.NET vNext Series)

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 9/12/2011 9:18:00 PM

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET vNext.The next releases of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities.  With ASP.NET vNext you'll see a bunch of really nice improvements with both Web Forms and MVC - as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon.Today's post is the second of three posts that talk about the new Model Binding support coming to Web Forms.  Model Binding is an extension of the exis ...

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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Web Forms Model Binding Part 1: Selecting Data (ASP.NET vNext Series)

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 9/6/2011 4:58:18 AM

This is the third in a series of blog posts I’m doing on ASP.NET vNext. The next releases of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities.  With ASP.NET vNext you’ll see a bunch of really exciting improvements with both Web Forms and MVC – as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post is the first of three posts I’ll do over the next week that talk about the new Model Binding support coming to Web Forms.  Model Bi ...

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Friday, September 02, 2011

Strongly Typed Data Controls (ASP.NET vNext Series)

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 9/2/2011 4:29:38 AM

This is the second in a series of blog posts I’m doing on ASP.NET vNext. The vNext releases of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities.  With ASP.NET vNext you’ll see a bunch of really exciting improvements with both Web Forms and MVC – as well as in the core ASP.NET base foundation that both are built upon. Today’s post is the first of a few posts I’ll do that talk about some of the improvements coming to Web Forms.  Today’s post covers the new s ...

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Thursday, September 01, 2011

HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event Handler Generation (ASP.NET vNext Series)

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 9/1/2011 6:01:02 AM

This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on ASP.NET vNext.  The next release of Visual Studio includes a bunch of great code editing features (which I’ll blog about more in the future).  Today’s post covers some small, but nice, productivity improvements coming to the HTML Editor which will make it easy to quickly accomplish common tasks.  In particular, Visual Studio will now support the ability to activate the “smart tasks” features of ASP.NET Server Controls, a ...

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

HTML5 Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 5/10/2011 2:54:45 AM

Last week I blogged about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update, and then followed it up with a detailed post that covered using the EF Code First and the new Data Scaffolding features in it. Today’s blog post is a continuation of this series and covers some of the new HTML5 improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update release. Project Template Support for HTML5 Semantic Markup The ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update adds support for you to optionally use HTML5 semantic markup when creating ...

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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 5/4/2011 4:46:10 AM

Three weeks ago we held our MIX 2011 conference in Las Vegas.  MIX is one of my favorite events of the year, and the conference always has a ton of great content and announcements.  All of the keynotes and breakout sessions from the event can be watched online for free here.  I’ll be doing a few posts in the upcoming weeks that also cover some highlights from it. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update One of the announcements I made in my Day 1 keynote was the release of an ASP.NET M ...

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Monday, April 18, 2011

My Annual Arizona .NET Speaking Event this Friday

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 4/18/2011 6:02:00 AM

This Friday, April 22nd, I’ll be holding my 8th Annual “Day of .NET” event in Arizona.  Organized by my friend Scott Cate, this all-day event is free and contains a ton of great content and presentations on recent technologies in the .NET world.  It is hosted in a great facility and is a lot of fun. This year I’ll be presenting together with Mark Russinovich, and we’ll be covering ASP.NET + Azure + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7.  It will be great! You can learn more about ...

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Visual Studio 2010 SP1

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 3/15/2011 7:14:33 PM

Last week we shipped Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and the Visual Studio Express Tools.  In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, SP1 includes a number of feature enhancements.  This includes improved local help support, IntelliTrace support for 64-bit applications and SharePoint, built-in Silverlight 4 Tooling support in the box, unit testing support when targeting .NET 3.5, a new performance wizard for Silverlight, IIS Express and SQL CE Tooling support for web ...

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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Free Video Training: ASP.NET MVC 3 Features

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 3/10/2011 7:44:28 AM

A few weeks ago I blogged about a great ASP.NET MVC 3 video training course from Pluralsight that was made available for free for 48 hours for people to watch.  The feedback from the people that had a chance to watch it was really fantastic.  We also received feedback from people who really wanted to watch it – but unfortunately weren’t able to within the 48 hour window. The good news is that we’ve worked with Pluralsight to make the course available for free again until March 18th.&# ...

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Monday, March 07, 2011

March 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, EF, .NET

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 3/7/2011 4:53:26 AM

Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year. [I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] ASP.NET 35 ASP.NET and VS 2010 What’s New Videos: 35 free videos from Joe Stagner that highlight some of the new features that came in ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010. Filling in PDF Forms with ASP.NET and iTextS ...

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

36 Hour Free Offer: jQuery Fundamentals Training

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 2/23/2011 6:19:46 PM

Pluralsight (a great .NET training company) is offering the opportunity to watch their jQuery Fundamentals course for free for the next 36 hours. The course is presented by the most excellent Dan Wahlin and contains 5 hours of great end to end content.  Pluralsight will be offering this jQuery Fundamentals course for free until Thursday evening (9pm PST). Pluralsight has about 100 other great training courses available similar to this one.  They recently launched a new su ...

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ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 2/23/2011 3:10:39 AM

Earlier this month the ASP.NET MVC developer community held the 2nd annual mvcConf event.  This was a free, online conference focused on ASP.NET MVC – with more than 27 talks that covered a wide variety of ASP.NET MVC topics.  Almost all of the talks were presented by developers within the community, and the quality and topic diversity of the talks was fantastic. Below are links to free recordings of the talks that you can watch (and optionally download): Scott Guthrie Ke ...

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Monday, February 14, 2011

NuGet 1.1 Released

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 2/14/2011 8:12:55 AM

This past weekend the ASP.NET team released NuGet 1.1.  Phil Haack recently blogged a bunch of details on the enhancements it brings, as well as how to update to it if you already have NuGet 1.0 installed.  It is definitely a nice update (my favorite improvement is that it no longer blocks the UI when downloading packages). Read Phil’s blog post about the NuGet 1.1 update and how it install it here.  NuGet is Not just for Web Projects NuGet is not just for ASP.NET pro ...

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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Special 48-Hour Offer: Free ASP.NET MVC 3 Video Training

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 2/9/2011 6:47:37 AM

The Virtual ASP.NET MVC Conference (MVCConf) happened earlier today.  Several thousand developers attended the event online, and had the opportunity to watch 27 great talks presented by the community. All of the live presentations were recorded, and videos of them will be posted shortly so that everyone can watch them (for free).  I’ll do a blog post with links to them once they are available. Special Pluralsight Training Available for Next 48 Hours In my MVCConf keynote t ...

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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Feb 2nd Links: Visual Studio, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, Windows Phone

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 2/3/2011 7:15:11 AM

Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year. [I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] Community News MVCConf Conference Next Tuesday: Attend the free, online ASP.NET MVC Conference being organized by the community next Tuesday.  Here is a list of some of the talks you can watch live. Visual St ...

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me Monday

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 1/23/2011 7:31:31 PM

Update: You can download an audio version of the below talk here. Tomorrow (Monday Jan 24th) I’m doing another online LIDNUG session.  The talk will be from 3:00pm to 4:30pm (Pacific Time).  I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun.  Attendees can ask any questions they want to me, and listen to me answer them live via LiveMeeting.  We usually end up having some really good discussions on a wide variety of topics.  Any topic is fair game: techn ...

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Microsoft Web Farm Framework 2.0

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 1/21/2011 5:47:58 AM

The IIS team recently published the Microsoft Web Farm Framework 2.0 release to the web.  You can learn more about it and download the final V2 release of it here. What is the Web Farm Framework? The Microsoft Web Farm Framework is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product 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 automat ...

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Running an ASP.NET MVC 3 app on a web server that doesn’t have ASP.NET MVC 3 installed

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 1/19/2011 6:33:22 AM

Last week we released several new web products – including ASP.NET MVC 3.  We’ve had a bunch of great feedback and a ton of downloads since then. One question a few people have asked me recently is: “My web hosting provider doesn’t yet support ASP.NET MVC 3 - any idea when they will install it?” The good news is that you don’t need to wait for them to install anything on their web-servers.  As long as your web hosting provider supports .NET 4, then you can build and deploy ASP ...

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 1/13/2011 6:11:00 PM

I’m excited to announce the release today of several products: ASP.NET MVC 3 NuGet IIS Express 7.5 SQL Server Compact Edition 4 Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0 Orchard 1.0 WebMatrix 1.0 The above products are all free. They build upon the .NET 4 and VS 2010 release, and add a ton of additional value to ASP.NET (both Web Forms and MVC) and the Microsoft Web Server stack. ASP.NET MVC 3 Today we are shipping the final release of ASP. ...

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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

VS 2010 SP1 (Beta) and IIS Express

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 1/4/2011 6:56:48 AM

Last month we released the VS 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta.  You can learn more about the VS 2010 SP1 Beta from Jason Zander’s two blog posts about it, and from Scott Hanselman’s blog post that covers some of the new capabilities enabled with it.  You can download and install the VS 2010 SP1 Beta here. IIS Express Earlier this summer I blogged about IIS Express.  IIS Express is a free version of IIS 7.5 that is optimized for developer scenarios.  We think it co ...

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Saturday, January 01, 2011

Links to my “Best of 2010” Posts

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 1/1/2011 6:01:39 AM

I hope everyone is having a Happy New Years! 2010 has been a busy blogging year for me (this is the 100th blog post I’ve done in 2010).  Several people this week suggested I put together a summary post listing/organizing my favorite posts from the year.  Below is a quick listing of some of my favorite posts organized by topic area: VS 2010 and .NET 4 Below is a series of posts I wrote (some in late 2009) about the VS 2010 and .NET 4 (including ASP.NET 4 and WPF 4) relea ...

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

ASP.NET MVC 3: Layouts and Sections with Razor

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 12/30/2010 8:27:35 AM

This is another in a series of posts I’m doing that cover some of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 features: Introducing Razor (July 2nd) New @model keyword in Razor (Oct 19th) Layouts with Razor (Oct 22nd) Server-Side Comments with Razor (Nov 12th) Razor’s @: and <text> syntax (Dec 15th) Implicit and Explicit code nuggets with Razor (Dec 16th) Layouts and Sections with Razor (Today) In today’s post I’m going to go into more details about how Layo ...

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Update on ASP.NET MVC 3 RC2 (and a workaround for a bug in it)

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 12/15/2010 12:53:55 AM

Last week we published the RC2 build of ASP.NET MVC 3.  I blogged a bunch of details about it here. One of the reasons we publish release candidates is to help find those last “hard to find” bugs. So far we haven’t seen many issues reported with the RC2 release (which is good) - although we have seen a few reports of a metadata caching bug that manifests itself in at least two scenarios: Nullable parameters in action methods have problems: When you have a controller action met ...

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Announcing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Release Candidate 2)

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 12/11/2010 7:47:09 AM

Earlier today the ASP.NET team shipped the final release candidate (RC2) for ASP.NET MVC 3.  You can download and install it here. Almost there… Today’s RC2 release is the near-final release of ASP.NET MVC 3, and is a true “release candidate” in that we are hoping to not make any more code changes with it.  We are publishing it today so that people can do final testing with it, let us know if they find any last minute “showstoppers”, and start updating their apps to use it. ...

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Monday, December 06, 2010

Dec 5th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, Visual Studio

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 12/6/2010 12:31:49 AM

Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series for another on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] ASP.NET ASP.NET Code Samples Collection: J.D. Meier has a great post that provides a detailed round-up of ASP.NET code samples and tutorials from a wide variety of sources.  Lots of useful pointers. ...

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Thursday, December 02, 2010

Announcing Silverlight 5

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 12/2/2010 6:22:00 PM

Today at the Silverlight FireStarter event we unveiled the next release of Silverlight.  Silverlight 5 adds significant new features and capabilities, and enables developers to create premium media experiences and deliver rich applications across browsers, desktops and devices.  In my keynote this morning we demonstrated a number of them, and highlighted both the developer productivity Silverlight 5 provides and the great new user experiences it enables.  You can watch my keynote ...

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Monday, November 22, 2010

Upcoming Web Camps

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 11/22/2010 7:08:01 AM

Earlier this year I blogged about some Web Camp events that Microsoft is sponsoring around the world.  These training events provide a great way to learn about a variety of technologies including ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2010, Web Matrix, Silverlight, and IE9.  The events are free and the feedback from people attending them has been great. A bunch of additional Web Camp events are coming up in the months ahead.  You can find our more about the events and register to attend ...

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Saturday, November 13, 2010

ASP.NET MVC 3: Server-Side Comments with Razor

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 11/13/2010 1:33:50 AM

Earlier this week we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate.  It supports “go live” deployments, and includes a bunch of great improvements/enhancements on top of the features we enabled earlier with the ASP.NET MVC 3 beta and first preview releases. This is another in a series of “mini-posts” I’m doing that talk about a few of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta/RC features in more detail: New @model keyword in Razor (Oct 19th) Layouts with Razor (Oct 22nd) Server-Sid ...

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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Announcing the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 11/9/2010 3:53:57 PM

This morning the ASP.NET team shipped the ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (release candidate). You can download it here. ASP.NET MVC 3 is a pretty sweet release, and adds a ton of new functionality and refinements.  It is also backwards compatible with ASP.NET MVC V1 and V2 – which makes it easy to upgrade existing apps (read the release notes for the exact steps to do so).  You can learn more about some of the great capabilities in ASP.NET MVC 3 from previous blog posts I’ve done about it: ...

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Friday, November 05, 2010

Silverlight Questions

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 11/5/2010 3:06:39 AM

Over the last week there has been a lot of confusion/concern about Silverlight that occurred from an interview given at the PDC conference last week.  A few days ago Bob Muglia (President of our Server and Tools Division) posted a blog post on the Silverlight Team blog that helped clarify what he said in the interview that caused the controversy.  You can read his post here. Three of the things that he explicitly said in the interview (and which were reported in the article - but ...

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Friday, October 15, 2010

Patch for VS 2010 “Scrolling Context Menu”

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 10/15/2010 5:14:00 AM

One of the top reported Microsoft Connect issues with VS 2010 has been an issue where context menus scroll even when there is sufficient screen real estate to show the menu in its entirely (with no scrolling required). The VS and WPF teams issued public hotfixes today that you can download to fix this issue. You can learn more and download them here. You can review my previous posts about other public VS 2010 hotfixes that are available below: VS 2010 Find and Replace Dialog Gro ...

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Friday, October 01, 2010

ASP.NET Security Fix Now on Windows Update

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 10/1/2010 6:30:27 AM

Earlier this week I blogged about the availability of a patch on the Microsoft Download Center to fix the recent ASP.NET Security Vulnerability. Today we also made it possible to update systems through Windows Update (WU) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).  This enables administrators to more easily streamline patch installs, and enables you to take advantage of the WU/WSUS infrastructure to detect which patches you should install based on what versions of .NET are on your sys ...

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

ASP.NET Security Update Now Available

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 9/28/2010 7:59:10 PM

This morning Microsoft released a security update that addresses the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability that I’ve blogged about this past week.  We recommend installing it as soon as possible on your web-servers. Common Questions/Answers Below are some answers to a few common questions people have asked: Do the updates require me to change any code? No. The update should not require any code or configuration change to your existing ASP.NET applications. Will I still need to ...

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Monday, September 27, 2010

ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Tuesday, Sept 28th

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 9/27/2010 10:02:16 PM

Update: You can now download the security update here. An hour ago Microsoft released an advance notification security bulletin announcing that we are releasing an out-of-band security update to address the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability that I’ve blogged about this past week.  The security update is fully tested, and is scheduled for release tomorrow - Tuesday September 28th – at approximately 10:00 AM PDT.  The advance notice bulletin is intended to ensure administrators know it is ...

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Friday, September 24, 2010

Update on ASP.NET Vulnerability

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 9/24/2010 11:13:25 PM

Earlier this week I posted about an ASP.NET Vulnerability, and followed this up with another blog post that covers some Frequently Asked Questions about it. We are actively working on releasing a security update that fix the issues, and our teams have been working around the clock to develop and test a fix that is ready for broad distribution across all Windows platforms via Windows Update.  I’ll post details about this once it is available. Important Update: You can now down ...

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Frequently Asked Questions about the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 9/21/2010 3:41:34 AM

Two days ago I published an important blog post about a security vulnerability in ASP.NET.  In it I discussed a workaround that we recommend customers use to help prevent attackers from using the vulnerability against your applications. Below are answers to some common questions people have asked since then about the vulnerability. Important Update: You can now download the official security patch update here.  Please install it ASAP on your servers – it is the only way t ...

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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Important: ASP.NET Security Vulnerability

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 9/18/2010 11:23:22 AM

A few hours ago we released a Microsoft Security Advisory about a security vulnerability in ASP.NET.  This vulnerability exists in all versions of ASP.NET. This vulnerability was publically disclosed late Friday at a security conference.  We recommend that all customers immediately apply a workaround (described below) to prevent attackers from using this vulnerability against your ASP.NET applications. Important Update: You can now download the official security patch upd ...

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Silverlight PivotViewer Now Available

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 6/30/2010 3:58:30 AM

Three months ago at MIX we announced and first demoed the Silverlight PivotViewer control. The Silverlight PivotViewer control enables you to visualize thousands of objects at once, and sort and browse data in a way that helps you see trends and quickly find what you’re looking for. It’s ability to compare information, and navigate it in a way that feels natural and fast, is really unrivaled in the market today.  PivotViewer is one of those technologies that’s way better experienced ...

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Friday, May 21, 2010

May 20th Links: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, .NET 4, VS 2010, Silverlight

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 5/21/2010 5:51:23 AM

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. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] ASP.NET MVC How to Localize an ASP.NET MVC Application: Michael Ceranski has a good blog post that describes how to localize ASP.NET MVC 2 applications. ASP.N ...

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 and WCF RIA Services Released

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 5/18/2010 6:09:33 AM

The final release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and WCF RIA Services is now available for download.  Download and Install If you already have Visual Studio 2010 installed (or the free Visual Web Developer 2010 Express), then you can install both the Silverlight 4 Tooling Support as well as WCF RIA Services support by downloading and running this setup package (note: please make sure to uninstall the preview release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 if you ...

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Friday, April 23, 2010

Silverlight 4 Training Kit

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 4/23/2010 1:25:16 AM

We recently released a new free Silverlight 4 Training Kit that walks you through building business applications with Silverlight 4.  You can browse the training kit online or alternatively download an entire offline version of the training kit.  The training material is structured on teaching how to use the new Silverlight 4 features to build an end to end business application. The training kit includes 8 modules, 25 videos, and several hands on labs. Below is a breakdown and l ...

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Friday, April 16, 2010

Silverlight 4 Released

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 4/16/2010 6:58:56 AM

The final release of Silverlight 4 is now available. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] What is in the Silverlight 4 Release Silverlight 4 contains a ton of new features and capabilities.  In particular we focused on three scenarios with this release: Further enhancing media support Building great business applications Enabling out of the browser experiences On ...

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

March 21st Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 3/21/2010 10:57:36 PM

Here is the latest in my link-listing series. If you haven’t already, check out this month’s "Find a Hoster” page on the www.asp.net website to learn about great (and very inexpensive) ASP.NET hosting offers.  [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] ASP.NET URL Routing in ASP.NET 4: Scott Mitchell has a nice article that talks about the new URL routing features coming to W ...

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Friday, March 19, 2010

Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 3/19/2010 6:18:36 AM

On Monday I had the opportunity to present the MIX 2010 Day 1 Keynote in Las Vegas (you can watch a video of it here).  In the keynote I announced the release of the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (we’ll ship the final release of it next month) and the VS 2010 RC tools for Silverlight 4.  I also had the chance to talk for the first time about how Silverlight and XNA can now be used to build Windows Phone 7 applications. During my talk I did two quick Windows Phone 7 coding demos ...

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Silverlight 4 demos from my PDC Keynote now available

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 12/17/2009 5:56:57 AM

[In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] Last month I gave a Silverlight 4 keynote at the PDC conference.  You can watch my keynote online here (my part of the keynote starts at the 53:30 mark in the video). I showed off a number of fun demos during the keynote that highlighted some of new features coming in Silverlight 4.  Today we posted the samples online (with code) so that you can downloa ...

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Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Multi-Monitor Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series)

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 9/1/2009 5:37:59 AM

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers one of the general IDE improvements that I know a lot of people are already eagerly looking forward to with VS 2010 – multiple-monitor support. Using Multiple Monitors VS 2008 hosts all documents/files/designers within a single top-level window – which unfortunately means that you can’t partition the IDE across multiple monitors. VS 2010 addresses this by now allo ...

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Friday, July 31, 2009

ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 7/31/2009 7:53:06 AM

The ASP.NET team just released the first public preview of ASP.NET MVC Version 2.  You can download it here. Today’s preview works with .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008, and can be installed side-by-side on the same machine as ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (meaning they don’t conflict and your existing ASP.NET MVC 1.0 projects will not be impacted if you install it).  If you have both ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and ASP.NET MVC 2.0 installed you’ll see two ASP.NET MVC project templates within Visual Studio 2008’s ...

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Silverlight 3 Released

by ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on 7/10/2009 4:35:31 PM

Today we officially shipped the final release of Silverlight 3. Silverlight 3 Features Silverlight 3 is a major update and delivers a ton of new features and capabilities.  Some of the new Silverlight 3 runtime capabilities include: HD Media Silverlight 3 now supports hardware graphics acceleration – enabling both video and graphics compositing to be offloaded onto a GPU.  This can dramatically lower CPU usage on a computer, and enables HD video to be played on older low ...

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