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Announcing Windows Azure Media Services

April 16, 2012 in .NET, Articles, Community News, News, Reference

I'm excited to share news about a great new cloud capability we are announcing today – Windows Azure Media Services. Windows Azure Media Services Windows Azure Media Services is a cloud-based PaaS solution that enables you to efficiently build and deliver media solutions to customers. It offers a bunch of ready-to-use services that enable the fast ingestion, encoding, format-conversion, storage, content protection, and streaming (both live and on-demand) of video. It also integrates and exposes services provided by industry leading partners – enabling an incredibly deep media stack of functionality that you can leverage. You can use Windows Azure Media Services to deliver solutions to any device or client – including HTML5, Silverlight,…(read more)

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April 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and Visual Studio

April 15, 2012 in .NET, Articles, ASP.NET, MVC, News, Reference, Visual Studio

Here is the latest in my link-listing blog series: ASP.NET Easily overlooked features in VS 11 Express for Web : Good post by Scott Hanselman that highlights a bunch of easily overlooked improvements that are coming to VS 11 (and specifically the free express editions) for web development: unit testing, browser chooser/launcher, IIS Express, CSS Color Picker, Image Preview in Solution Explorer and more. Get Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms : Good 5-part tutorial that walks-through building an application using ASP.NET Web Forms and highlights some of the nice improvements coming with ASP.NET 4.5. What is New in Razor V2 and What Else is New in Razor V2 : Great posts by Andrew Nurse, a dev on the ASP.NET team, about some of the new improvements…(read more)

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“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (April 16th)

April 14, 2012 in .NET, Articles, ASP.NET, Community News, News, Reference, Talks

This coming Monday (April 16th) I’m doing another online LIDNUG session .  The talk will be from 10am to 11:30am (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 or question is fair game. You can learn more and register to attend the online event for free here . I’ll update this post with a download link to a recorded audio version of the talk after the event is over. Hope to get a chance to chat with some of you there! Scott P.S. In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick…(read more)

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The Big Glossary of Open Source JavaScript and Web Frameworks with Cool Names

April 13, 2012 in Articles, ASP.NET, News, Reference

It's getting to the point where there are so many cool open source projects that I can't keep up. When you add in the currently battle royale of JavaScript projects that are basically just hip sounding words with ".js" added to the end, it's a little overwhelming. Seriously, just pick a word out of the dictionary at random and that's the name of an up and coming JavaScript library. JavaScript MVC Frameworks and Libraries This is an area that is very interesting but also very not-yet-baked. In the DOM manipulation and CSS selector space, jQuery won. That fight is over. The next big question is client side MVC frameworks. It seems everyone wants to make the next "Rails" framework on JavaScript and while there…(read more)

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Using Forks with ASP.NET Web Stack Source on CodePlex

April 10, 2012 in Articles, ASP.NET, MVC, News, Reference

In the blog Getting Started With ASP.NET Web Stack Source on CodePlex we describe how to set up a read-only clone of the ASP.NET Web Stack source repository . This allows you to sync your tree to the latest changes as soon as they appear but you can’t update the code, fix bugs, or suggest changes. In short, it is read-only. This blog describes how to set up a fork to be able to contribute to the project. If you haven’t already, then now is a good time to check out the process for contributing to the ASP.NET Web Stack project . It describes in detail what you need to do in order to contribute with as little pain as possible. Why a Fork? A common way for open source projects to allow contributions is by using forks . A fork is not actually a Git…(read more)

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Windows Server 8 Cloud Backup Beta Released

April 10, 2012 in Articles, News, Reference

Gaurav Gupta, a senior program manager on Microsoft’s cloud backup team, announced details of the service in a recent post on Microsoft’s Windows Server Blog. In essence, the Microsoft Online Backup Service allows Windows Server 8 users to backup and recover their files and folders from the cloud. This essential functionality adds extra protection off-site to prevent data loss in the event that any unplanned disasters should occur. Built on Microsoft’s sturdy Windows Azure cloud platform, the Online Backup Service makes life easier for IT administrators seeking a solution to backup and recov…

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Getting Started With ASP.NET Web Stack Source on Codeplex

April 9, 2012 in Articles, ASP.NET, MVC, News, Reference

It’s been a little while since I blogged last but as you may have seen from ScottGu’s blog we have been busy getting ready for going open source. What this means is that the source for all our runtime components is now available on CodePlex for you to look at, use, and suggest changes to. This blog will give you some hints and tricks for getting started working with the source code. Note you still have the official installers which contain the usual MSI with NuGet packages. In fact, if you don’t intend to work directly with the source, I would go with the installer because it provides tooling support for Visual Studio (project templates, etc.) which are not available in the Codeplex repository . Before getting started, you should take a quick…(read more)

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Microsoft Access 2010: How to Format Forms

April 9, 2012 in Articles, News, Reference

For the purpose of this tutorial, we will be working on formatting a form that people can use to enter in a customer’s information. As is, the form is decent and usable, but what if you want to change its look around so that it has a custom look? What if you want to tweak its settings so that it better reflects your company or brand? That is exactly what we are about to do. The process is very simple and can even be a bit fun as you get creative with it. The reasoning behind formatting a form in Microsoft Access 2010 is rather logical. If someone is going to be using a form on a daily bas…

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Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms

April 9, 2012 in Articles, News, Reference

This new tutorial series will teach you the basics of building an ASP.NET Web Forms application using ASP.NET 4.5 Beta and Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web.

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Back to Basics: Dynamic Image Generation, ASP.NET Controllers, Routing, IHttpHandlers, and runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests

April 7, 2012 in Articles, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, News, Reference

Warning, this is long but full of info. Read it all. Often folks want to dynamically generate stuff with ASP.NET. The want to dynamically generate PDFs, GIFs, PNGs, CSVs, and lots more. It's easy to do this, but there's a few things to be aware of if you want to keep things as simple and scalable as possible. You need to think about the whole pipeline as any HTTP request comes in. The goal is to have just the minimum number of things run to do the job effectively and securely, but you also need to think about "who sees the URL and when."   This diagram isn't meant to be exhaustive, but rather give a general sense of when things happen. Modules can see any request if they are plugged into the pipeline. There are native…(read more)

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