Congratulations 2009 Microsoft MVP!
Wishing all a Happy New Year 2009! Today I have received a congratulation mail from Microsoft telling me that I have been nominated another year the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in ASP.NET Development. I’m very happy about this mail and my fourth year being a MVP. Dear Mi......
AppCmd Migrate Config and Remove HttpModules
In some of my Web projects I’m using the <remove name=”…”/> tag in web.config section system.web/httpModules. When you’re using the appcmd migrate config command not all removed httpModule configurations are copied to the new section below system.webServer. Before: <system.web>
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Encrypt your AJAX traffic using Microsoft Silverlight and Ajax.NET Professional
Some of you maybe remember that I had added some security related features in Ajax.NET Professional. It is possible to put an AJAX token or to simple encrypt the data that gets over the lines. With Silverlight we get the System.Security.Cryptography namespace on the client – before it was not very ......
Really Cool Internet Explorer 6 – But how will it perform on 400 MHz?
I have downloaded the new emulator images and I’m really impressed that the IE6 render engine really fits in such a small device. I have created some screenshots below. All Web sites look very similar to the desktop version of Internet Explorer. Most AJAX enabled pages are working, on some Web sit......
DNS, Zigbee, XBee, Web, SMTP and POP classes in my MSchwarz Toolkit for .NET Micro Framework
As I wrote already some days ago I'm currently working on a library that will offer networking features that I'm missing in .NET Micro Framework. All features are first implemented in desktop .NET Framework 3.0 and then modified to fit the smaller .NET Micro Framework. The Zigbee/XBee C# implementa......
AppCmd Migrate and HTTP Error 500.22
Yesterday I tried to migrate an Web Application from IIS 6 to IIS 7 integrated managed pipeline mode. After copying the files to the new folder I opened a Web browser and got following error message: HTTP Error 500.22 - Internal Server Error An ASP.NET setting has been detected that does not......
Xtopia 2008 – Ask-The-Expert (ATE)
I will attend the Xtopia 2008 and be available as an Ask-The-Expert (ATE) for questions concerning ASP.NET and Silverlight. Of course, feel free to ask me anything about the .NET Micro Framework 3 that has been released some days ago....
Internet Explorer 8 - Evaluators' Guide and IE8 Demo Site
I found a nice document at Microsoft Download showing all the new features in Internet Explorer 8 which is currently in beta: Speed and Efficiency. Internet Explorer 8 is faster to start up, creates new tabs in a snap, and loads and runs Web sites much more quickly (especially sites based on Ja......
Internet Explorer 8 - Evaluators' Guide and IE8 Demo Site
I found a nice document at Microsoft Download showing all the new features in Internet Explorer 8 which is currently in beta: Speed and Efficiency. Internet Explorer 8 is faster to start up, creates new tabs in a snap, and loads and runs Web sites much more quickly (especially sites based on Ja......
ASP.NET Memory Issues
Tess Ferrandez who is an escalation engineer in product support services (PSS) at Microsoft was helping a colleague out with an OOM (OutOfMemory) situation he was dealing with. The problem was that their applications memory usage would grow over time until they finally ended up with an out of mem......
ASP.NET Memory Issues
Tess Ferrandez who is an escalation engineer in product support services (PSS) at Microsoft was helping a colleague out with an OOM (OutOfMemory) situation he was dealing with. The problem was that their applications memory usage would grow over time until they finally ended up with an out of mem......
Internet Explorer 6 running on Windows Mobile - Do I have to wait for WM7?
Microsoft has canceled the Deepfish research project lab. I was not sure if I would love the Deepfish browser as there was a big lack of missing features like AJAX, JavaScript, Flash/Silverlight. Yesterday I read in the news that Microsoft will port their Internet Explorer 6 render engine to Window......
Internet Explorer 6 running on Windows Mobile - Do I have to wait for WM7?
Microsoft has canceled the Deepfish research project lab. I was not sure if I would love the Deepfish browser as there was a big lack of missing features like AJAX, JavaScript, Flash/Silverlight. Yesterday I read in the news that Microsoft will port their Internet Explorer 6 render engine to Window......
TODO: Internet Explorer 8
I will collect some of my thoughts about the current beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8 I have noticed during IE8 community roundtable last week: Address Bar and Searching Since months I’m using a great Firefox feature that I still miss in Internet Explorer 8 (beta 2): the searchable address bar. With......
TODO: Internet Explorer 8
I will collect some of my thoughts about the current beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8 I have noticed during IE8 community roundtable last week: Address Bar and Searching Since months I’m using a great Firefox feature that I still miss in Internet Explorer 8 (beta 2): the searchable address bar. With......
Internet Explorer 8 and Maximum Concurrent Connections
As defined in 1999 (RFC 2616) “clients that use persistent connections should limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy. A proxy SHOULD use up to 2*N connections ......
Internet Explorer 8 Address Bar like Windows Vista
Yesterday I brought up the question if there could be a change to the address bar of the next version of Internet Explorer. Since I’m using Windows Vista I’m very happy with the new view of the path in explorer.exe. It is very easy to navigate to parent folders by simple clicking on the part of the......
Ajax.NET and IIS 7 Integrated Mode
As there are some questions on how to run Ajax.NET on IIS 7 (i.e. Windows Vista) in integrated mode instead of classic mode here are two things you have to check: First check that the IIS_ISSRS group has access to your Web site folder. If you are using the default folder for Web sites with Visu......
Silverlight Roadmap Questions
I came across a great post about updated Silverlight 2 roadmap. Silverlight is about 7 month old kid but it is already making such a big buzz. One of my colleague Rahul did excellent job in terms of putting up a FAQ regarding the roadmap. When exactly will Silverlight support all the codec......
ASP.NET MVC Source Code at Codeplex
Today Microsoft published the source code of ASP.NET MVC Framework at Codeplex: We’re delighted to give you an early preview of the first release of the ASP.NET MVC source code on to Codeplex. You will be able to find this project at http://www.codeplex.net/aspnet and it represents the fi......
Breaking Changes in Silverlight 2
There is an MSDN article that focuses on changes that might cause your older Silverlight-based applications to now fail or behave differently not on new features/enhancements for this release: Important! Migrating Older Code to the Newer Release Update Silverlight.js ......
Wake-on-LAN from a .NET Micro Framework Device
Well, I love the easy development of embedded devices with the .NET Micro Framework. As the device I'm currently using is really small I tried to build a small Web site on it to start my private servers at home using Wake-on-LAN. You'll find a lot of helper methods samples on the Internet but I cou......
Wrong DateTime on .NET Micro Framework Devices
Since embeddedworld2008 in Nuremberg I'm playing in my free time with the .NET Micro Framework and the Digi Connect ME network device. I've created a small Web server and ported the Ajax.NET Professional library to the really cool and small .NET framework. When I reset such a device the current da......
My own small .NET Micro Framework Web Server
While developing my small Ajax.NET M! library for creating Web applications that run on the .NET Micro Framework I have started to write my own Web server. Some years ago I wrote a simple SMTP/POP server and using some code from there was a great help. The first version will only return static HTML......
Ajax.NET M! - The .NET Micro Framework AJAX Library
The embeddedworld2008 is over and I had some time to play around with Microsoft .NET Micro Framework devices. I can remember that I had a look on it during the first available betas on Microsoft Connect, but then stopped watching it because of the missing TCP/IP stack. The now available version 2.5......
Silverlight Web Site Updated
You may have noticed that the Silverlight web site at Microsoft.com has been updated. Well, I looks nicer than before, I like it. The system requirements are available here. For those of you that are trying to watch the virtual launch event (Heroes Happen Here) of Visual Studio 2008, SQL Serve......
[de] Visual Studio 2008 Launch in Frankfurt
Während meines Einsatz als Ask the export (ATE) auf dem Microsoft Stand in Frankfurt zum Launch von Visual Studio 2008, Windows 2008 Server als auch SQL Server 2008 sind ein paar Bugs aufgetaucht, die ich heute mal auf Microsoft Connect eingetragen habe. Hier sind die einzelnen Feedbacks: ......
LINQ to JSON
James has published a first beta of LINQ to JSON support in his Json.NET library. It looks very similar to my LINQ support in an internal build of Ajax.NET Professional which never has been released. List<Post> posts = GetPosts();
JObject rss =
new JObject(
new JProperty......
How to... use Class Libraries with ASP.NET AJAX like AjaxPro
Using Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) you are able to put you AJAX methods wherever you want, if inside the Page class itself, any .NET class in the same project or as a reference class library. To generate the AJAX client-side JavaScript proxies the AjaxPro library checks for all public methods in......
How to... move from AjaxPro to ASP.NET AJAX PageMethods
In one of my last posts I blogged about the future of Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) and that I'm not able to do further development on that project. A lot of my readers feeling sad about this but I had to concentrate more on new technologies that will revolutionize web application developme......
Everywhere Microsoft Silverlight
To prepare my laptop for the next weeks I reinstalled my last image to get rid of all the beta software I tried the last months. Oh, I have to install Silverlight to be able to develop and show some demos. While visiting some web sites from Microsoft I got a small popup showing me that I can get a ......
Future of Ajax.NET Professional
I'm happy to see that Ajax.NET Professional is used about 13.3% when using .NET related web applications. Starting with my first post Using a HttpHandler and Attributes to call C# methods in JavaScript in February 2005 the AJAX hype started around the world. Two months later I renamed the project t......
Microsoft Download Center using Silverlight 1.0
Some weeks ago Microsoft already published a preview version of the Microsoft Download Center. Now, there is a new URL for the preview version (which is now called beta): http://www.microsoft.com/beta/downloads/. Well, I run the Fiddler tool to calculate the download size of all files (JavaScr......
.NET AJAX Survey Results
Simone has finished the survey and published the results of the survey about the usage of AJAX among .NET web developers. The results are very interesting. The most used AJAX toolkit is ASP.NET AJAX with about 73.7% followed by the AJAX Control Toolkit which is used by almost half of the .NET devel......
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List (part 2)
I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing. Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. Here are some additional features currently missing and are maybe important for everyone. Socket ......
Ajax View: Remotely Monitoring Web 2.0 Applications
I'm using Ajax View more and more and find it very useful. The goal of the Ajax View project is to improve developer's visibility into and control over their web applications' behaviors on end-user's desktops. The Ajax View approach is to insert a server-side proxy (or web server plugin) in......
MVC Web Application and JSON
I like the MVC (Model View Controller) framework which is available as a public CTP, now. You can download the latest bits with the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP Preview. You will find further links at Scott Guthrie's posts tagged with MVC. While playing around I tried to create a simple Web page tha......
My Silverlight Weekend Summary
During the weekend I found several new examples about Silverlight. Because I'm running several Web sites that need any kind of diagrams I was happy to see these nice examples from Richard: JellyBar, JellyGraph and JellyPie. Tamir Khason writes about right-to-left support for Silverlight, well,......
VistaDB with Silverlight
Today I read on the VistaDB blog that their database engine will run on Silverlight. I'm not sure if I want to put a complete database engine in Silverlight applications. Do I have to put the database files into IsolatedStorage or will it be only in-memory? "OK, great you have this Silverligh......
Silverlight Tutorials
There are a couple of great tutorials on how to developer Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 or 1.1 Web applications: Mix 07 Silverlight Sessions Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 1 of 2) Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 2 of 2) Building Rich Web Experiences Using Silve......
How to create Silverlight Applications with Notepad
You may have read my post about how you can build Silverlight Web applications with Visual Studio .NET 2005 instead of using the next verison codename Orcas. Until this time I used always a Virtual PC which was sometimes a little bit slow. Today I was thinking about how I could do this with Notepad......
Silverlight with Visual Studio .NET 2005
Could Silverlight 1.1 assemblies be generated with Visual Studio .NET 2005? Well, if you read the GetStarted page of Silverlight you see only upcoming Visual Studio codename Orcas as development platform. Bryant asked this in the Silverlight forum and got a great answer from Scott Louvau. He replie......
Microsoft Silverlight
For all of you didn't noticed the name change of code name WPF/E, it is now Microsft Silverlight. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. Silverlight integrates with existing......
Download AjaxPro Beta with jQuery Support
I forgot to put the beta version online that will support jQuery and json.js from http://www.json.org. You can download the latest beta of the AjaxPro library at http://www.ajaxpro.info/download/jQueryAjaxPro.zip. The download currently includes only the .NET 2.0 library including a Visual Studio .......
AjaxPro and the jQuery JavaScript Provider
Because jQuery is a often used JavaScript framework I will have a provider available in the next release of Ajax.NET Professional that will render only the wrapper JavaScript files in the jQuery JavaScript code. The JavaScript output for jQuery MyAjaxClass_class = function() {};
MyAjaxClas......
Looking Forward to next AjaxPro Release
Some developers mentioned that it would be nice if Ajax.NET Professional could be more JSON compliant to use with some JavaScript frameworks that are not using the eval statement. And, if you have a look at json.org JSON message always have to be an object or array, not a string or boolean directly......
Trackbacks, Who Is Linking You and where you should pay attention
Today I opened the turkish version of Google and did a search for something I cannot remember. The thing was that I didn't hit enter, instead I clicked on the button Google'da Ara. What I noticed then was that the ' was not correct url encoded. Hm, nothing you have to care about. But af......
jQuery and Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro)
jQuery is a fast, concise JavaScript library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript, but it can be only used on the client-side JavaScript code. T......
Intel Software Network Videos using AjaxPro
I talked today with a Intel developer and he showed me where the are using Ajax.NET Professional JSON Library. The Intel Software Developer Network has it's own video library where you can see great videos on several technologies Intel is offering with it's processors. We talked about why t......
JSON Hijacking and How Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) Avoids these Attacks
There are a couple of web sites reporting about security issues that hackers can use to invoke AJAX methods or use the JSON output to get data from other web applications. Specificallly, these attacks use HTTP GET requests invoked via an HTML <script src=""> include element to circu......