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April 2012 Update for Visual Studio 11 Beta

April 6, 2012 in Articles, News, Reference, Visual Studio

April 2012 Update for Visual Studio 11 Beta is available. For Visual Studio 11 Beta Ultimate, You can install it through Tools->Extension Manager: For Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web, you can download it directly and install: April 2012 Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta . Due to a known issue, it won't show the update in "Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web" extension manager, if other versions of Visual Studio 11 Beta is not installed on the machine. The update contains a fix for the razor editor issue . Please read release notes for details. Best regards Xinyang Qiu Web Platform and Tools Read More……(read more)

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Idera Announces SQL Compliance Manager 3.6

April 4, 2012 in Articles, News, Reference

Perhaps the main highlight of SQL compliance manager 3.6′s impressive set of features is its ability to actively track any activities of privileged users. When users of high administrative privileges access column groups in monitored tables, SQL compliance manager 3.6 issues alerts to security administrators, compliance officers, IT auditors, and the like in a proactive manner. Such functionality allows the product to provide an extra barrier against the possibility of insider threats to an organization’s data. Idera developed SQL compliance manager to supply its clients with real-time audit…

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Windows Telephone Scam Continues to Circulate

April 2, 2012 in Articles, News, Reference

Microsoft addressed the scam via a blog post during the middle of last year. Cyberthieves call homes in English-speaking countries after finding their phone numbers in telephone directories. The callers usually identify themselves as engineers from Windows Support or other legitimate-sounding organizations. They claim that your computer has been sending error messages and may have been compromised. To fix the problem, they offer a free security check. Despite being detected last year, this particular scam is still making the rounds. A recent article by news channel ABC 15 out of Arizona r…

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Overriding the Pager rendering in Orchard

March 31, 2012 in Articles, ASP.NET, News, Reference

The Pager shape that is used in Orchard to render pagination is one of those shapes that are built in code rather than in a Razor template. This can make it a little more confusing to override, but nothing is impossible. If we look at the Pager method in CoreShapes, here is what we see: [Shape] public IHtmlString Pager(dynamic Shape, dynamic Display) { Shape.Metadata.Alternates.Clear(); Shape.Metadata.Type = "Pager_Links" ; return Display(Shape); } .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff;…(read more)

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ZenGallery: a minimalist image gallery for Orchard

March 31, 2012 in Articles, ASP.NET, News, Reference

There are quite a few image gallery modules for Orchard but they were not invented here I wanted something a lot less sophisticated that would be as barebones and minimalist as possible out of the box, to make customization extremely easy. So I made this, in less than two days (during which I got distracted a lot). Nwazet.ZenGallery uses existing Orchard features as much as it can: Galleries are just a content part that can be added to any type The set of photos in a gallery is simply defined by a folder in Media Managing the images in a gallery is done using the standard media management from Orchard Ordering of photos is simply alphabetical order of the filenames (use 1_, 2_, etc. prefixes if you have to) The path to the gallery folder is…(read more)

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Microsoft Fights Back Against Zeus Malware Ring

March 28, 2012 in Articles, News, Reference

According to a press release from Microsoft, the software giant, along with its partners, solicited the help of the U.S. Marshals on March 23 to seize Zeus command-and-control servers in charge of delivering malware updates, issuing commands, and stealing data in Lombard, Illinois, and Scranton, Pennsylvania. The active servers were seized on the premises of the two hosting companies before their owners could attempt to destroy the evidence. Microsoft was allowed to overtake 800 domains used by the Zeus servers and two IP addresses used to advance the operation were also dismantled. Microso…

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ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) now all open source with contributions

March 28, 2012 in Articles, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, News, Reference

Happy Tuesday! It's indeed a happy day as I am (literally this moment) at a conference in Las Vegas and have just pressed Publish on this blog post to announce that we are open sourcing ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) all with contributions under the Apache 2.0 license. You can find the source on CodePlex . Be sure to read all the details on ScottGu's blog . Ya, I bolded, underlined and italicized that last part and yes, it was gratuitous. Fight me. ;) This is the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of folks in our organization. It's the very reason that I came to work at Microsoft. So, what’s happening here? While the source for ASP.NET MVC has had source available since its inception, and converted…(read more)

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ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source

March 28, 2012 in .NET, Articles, ASP.NET, Community News, MVC, News, Reference

Microsoft has made the source code of ASP.NET MVC available under an open source license since the first V1 release. We’ve also integrated a number of great open source technologies into the product, and now ship jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, jQuery Validation, Modernizr.js, NuGet, Knockout.js and JSON.NET as part of it. I’m very excited to announce today that we will also release the source code for ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages (aka Razor) under an open source license (Apache 2.0), and that we will increase the development transparency of all three projects by hosting their code repositories on CodePlex (using the new Git support announced last week ). Doing so will enable a more open development model where everyone in the community…(read more)

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ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source

March 27, 2012 in Articles, News, Reference

Scott Guthrie announces that the source for ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages (aka Razor) are released under an open source license (Apache 2.0), and that they will be accepting community contr…

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Idera SQL Doctor 3.0 and MS SQL Changes

March 26, 2012 in Articles, News, Reference

New features worth mentioning in SQL doctor 3.0 begin with a new server dashboard that not only gives a comprehensive overview of a SQL Server instance’s current health, but also several key details to help database administrators. Some of the details include recommendations on how to optimize server configuration, how to fix certain security issues, and how to get rid of performance bottlenecks. The latest version of SQL doctor also supplies users with key server information. The status of system parameters known to affect SQL Server performance, such as processes, disk partitions, cache, m…

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