23 Mar, 2009 by Robert Muehsig
Webdevelopment with Visual Studio is really easy – just hit F5 and you jump into the debugger. VS use (as default) the built-in "ASP.NET Development Server" called "Cassini". But there are some pitfalls if you use this server, because the behavior of the IIS and Cassini are sometimes a bit different and the dev server is much slower! The good news: With few clicks you can debug and deploy your application right on IIS7 (on Vista/Server 2008).
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18 Mar, 2009 by Robert Muehsig
Interfaces are an important feature for designing great software, but many programming newbies have a understanding problem – Why should I use "interfaces"? What is an "interface"?
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13 Mar, 2009 by Robert Muehsig
The Live Framework is the API for Live Mesh. Since the PDC last year you could register for the Live Framework key to download the SDK.
With the new update you have now public access to the SDK & Visual Studio Tools:
Update: You need an Live Framework Token to run an application :/
25 Feb, 2009 by Robert Muehsig
In my last blogpost I talked about different cloud computing providers, like Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
Today I want to describe Windows Azure more and show you how to use the Windows Azure CTP and how to publish a "Hello World" app in the "cloud".
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24 Feb, 2009 by Robert Muehsig
Cloud-Computing is a new nice buzzword after Web 2.0 and everything goes "in the cloud" – but what means "in the cloud"? Who are the big players and why should you care about it?
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24 Feb, 2009 by Robert Muehsig
Microsoft Press celebrates his 25th anniversary and offer you two books. These offers expire on February 25, 2009. If you want to download the books you have to register to the MS Press Book Connection Newsletter:
20 Feb, 2009 by Robert Muehsig
If you create a relationship between to SQL tables, you get many benefits. The most important benefit (for me) is the integrity of your data. Besides the database-world there is another huge benefit: The relationships are used by many O/R mappers to create a structured object model. You could create such realtionships via different dialogs in the SQL Management Studio / Visual Studio or just do a "Drag´n´Drop" from one table to another one.
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30 Jan, 2009 by Robert Muehsig
I started my programming career with PHP and MySQL and I used very often a webbased mysql admin panel called "PhpMyAdmin".
It has (of course) not all features of the SQL Management Studios, but if I only want to have a quick look at the database it is very cool – and you only need a simple browser.
You can create such an tool with ASP.NET Dynamic Data and Linq2Sql or the Entity Framework within minutes.
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27 Jan, 2009 by Robert Muehsig
The ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate was today published by Scott Gu. Scott wrote a great blogpost about the improvements in the RC in his blog.
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15 Jan, 2009 by Robert Muehsig
Last week was the public release of the Windows 7 Beta – you can download it here. In installed it on my ThinkPad R61 and take a look at it. Here are my first impressions. Is it better than Vista?
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