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Windows 7 Virtual PC – Mounting ISO

In previous version, Virtual PC allowed to capture an ISO image directly from the CD menu. In Windows 7 Virtual PC, the CD menu is gone.  Instead, you need to open the Settings dialog box, then click on the DVD Drive item. var...

Announcing the RTW release of Application Request Routing V2 for ...

Today we did the official release for ARR Version 2 for IIS7 and it is now fully supported by Microsoft Support . Overview: Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) for IIS 7.0 is a proxy-based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to application...

Win $10,000 for writing an application with fewer lines of code

In the first code challenge of its kind, Visual WebGui is offering a $10,000 and giving away prizes valued at thousands of dollars in their call to developers to be the first to submit a Webmail application written by another framework with fewer lines...

Increase Web Application Scalability and Reliability with ARR 2.0...

Today, Microsoft announced the final release of IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0 RTW . Customers - such as hosting providers, Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers, and IT Professionals are changing the way they do business as a result of ARR...

ASP.NET 4 / VS 2010 “Quick Hit” Videos

Now that the “Dev 2010” wave of products is in beta and we’re getting closer5 and closer to release, I‘ve started publishing “Quick Hit” videos on the new features. These are not really tutorials (Not like the How-Do-I videos) but rather just “quick”...

Desert Code Camp – November 2009 Lessons Learned

My first Code Camp is done and I wanted to jot down some of the lessons I learned. Bring EXTRA equipment! You will never now what people will want or need. Here’s a list of items that are good to have. Adapters DVI to VGA (those MACs) HDMI to VGA...

Arabic SharePoint Resources and Screencasts

Some cool guys (all working in ITWorx I guess, one of the biggest Egyptian Software houses) have created a new website: http://www.sharepoint4arabs.com The website, as the name implies, is dedicated for ARABIC resources related to SharePoint. It...

Web Asset Enhancements in Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC

In the recent release, there has been few enhancements in the Web Asset Management. One of the new thing that we introduced which was actually requested by the community is Shared Web Asset. In this post, I will show you, how to use it in your ASP.NET...

VM Prep Tool for Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010

Microsoft has released the first version of the Virtual Machine Preparation Tool for Visual Studio Team Lab management 2010. What a mouthfull! Try saying that three times in a row.. Well, the tool function is to prepare existing VMs to be compatible with...

Adding Editors and Owners to BlogEngine.NET blogs in Sueetie

This new Sueetie Wiki page shows Gummy Bear administrators how to add editors and owners to Sueetie Community Site BlogEngine.NET blogs. Still at a formative phase of Sueetie evolution, creating blogs and their users remains a manual process. That will...

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