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Microsoft Web Farm Framework 2.0

Editor — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:47:58 +0000

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 automatically synchronize and deploy ASP.NET applications across them. It 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…(read more)

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

Editor — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:11:00 +0000

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.NET MVC 3. You can download and install ASP.NET MVC 3 here . The ASP.NET MVC 3 source code (released under an OSI-compliant open source license) can also optionally be downloaded here . ASP.NET MVC 3 is a significant update that brings with it a bunch of great features. Some of the improvements…(read more)

VS 2010 SP1 (Beta) and IIS Express

Editor — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:56:48 +0000

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 combines the ease of use of the ASP.NET Web Server (aka Cassini) currently built-into VS today with the full power of IIS. Specifically: It’s lightweight and easy to install (less than 5Mb download and a quick install) It does not require an administrator account…(read more)

Web Deploy: IIS6 to IIS7 Migrations + Link Extensions

Editor — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:14:00 +0000

Recently I was having a conversation with one of Web Deploy (MSDeploy) users and an interesting scenario came up. He essentially wanted to move his site from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7 and wanted to consider Web Deploy to do this. In addition he actually was fine with just xCopy-ing the site’s content from IIS6 server to IIS7 server as it was almost 6GB+ in size and trying to create a zip package for it was not most the optimal way of using resources, nevertheless creating a zip package using Web Deploy for just the IIS configuration is what was certainly desirable due to ease of portability & use. I thought this would be a good opportunity to write a quick note to share with you that migration from IIS 6 to IIS 7 was one of the original…(read more)

Automating Deployment with Microsoft Web Deploy

Editor — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:40:12 +0000

This is the twenty-eighth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. This blog post continues a series of posts I’m doing that cover the new improvements we made around web deployment. In my first post in the deployment series I provided an overview of the new VS 2010 Web Deployment features. In today’s post I’m going to be discussing Microsoft Web Deploy – which is a free server technology that enables a comprehensive publishing and deployment mechanism. Web Deploy enables you to not only publish files – but also provision database schema/data, run database change scripts, set security ACLs, and more. All of these deployment steps can be automated using Visual Studio. This post will provide a step…(read more)

Introducing the Microsoft Web Farm Framework

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:12:55 +0000

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). The Microsoft Web…(read more)

August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Editor — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:23:36 +0000

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 ] .NET/WPF/EF 5 Little C#/.NET Wonders that Make Code Better : Nice blog post from James that highlights 5 nice language/framework tips you can take advantage of within your apps. I’m betting a lot of people didn’t know about the StopWatch class. WPF Ribbon Control Released : The WPF team recently released the final V1 release of the WPF Ribbon control. This makes it easy to build ribbon-based applications. Also read this WPF team blog post…(read more)

Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta released!

Editor — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:09:04 +0000

Last week my team released a super powerful update to our Web Farm Framework project aimed at dramatically simplifying the complexity of managing a Web farm (many computers running one or more Web sites). Web Farm Framework 2.0 (WFF) allows users to not only setup groups of servers and define routing rules using the built-in routing and load balancing support in ARR , but extends the management support to include many new powerful experiences, including: Automatic platform setup and provisioning of new nodes WFF integrates with Web Platform Installer and will automatically install all the required components to mirror the master node Application replication and synchronization across the Web server farm WFF integrates with Web Deploy and…(read more)

Introducing IIS Express

Editor — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:02:00 +0000

Developers today build and test ASP.NET sites and applications using one of two web-servers: The ASP.NET Development Server that comes built-into Visual Studio The IIS Web Server that comes built-into Windows Both of the above options have their pros and cons, and many ASP.NET developers have told us: “I wish I could have the ease of use of the ASP.NET Development Server, but still have all the power and features of IIS”. Today I’m happy to announce a new, free option that we are enabling – IIS Express – that combines the best characteristics of both, and which will make it easier to build and run ASP.NET sites and applications. IIS Express will work with VS 2010 and Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, will run on Windows XP and higher…(read more)

Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension

Editor — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:55:39 +0000

Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any publically facing web-site. A large % of traffic to sites now comes directly from search engines, and improving your site’s search relevancy will lead to more users visiting your site from search engine queries. This can directly or indirectly increase the money you make through your site. This blog post covers how you can use the free Microsoft URL Rewrite Extension to fix a bunch of common SEO problems that your site might have. It takes less than 15 minutes (and no code changes) to apply 4 simple URL Rewrite rules to your site, and in doing so cause search engines to drive more visitors and traffic to your site. The techniques below work equally well with both ASP…(read more)