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June 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:02 PM

SDK Sample: Programmatically change the runtime version of an application pool in IIS 7

I  have posted a new sample on IIS.NET demonstrating how to programmatically change the managed runtime version of an application pool in IIS 7.0.  I have posted code in VB.NET and C#.  Enjoy.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:49 PM

Communication breakdown: internal spam affects productivity

When I interviewed with Microsoft, I was asked, "What is one thing we can count on you to do at Microsoft?"  My reply was brief: "You can count on me to complain."  My interviewer suddenly took on the puzzled look that an interviewee would
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 10:11 PM

Security: There's incompetence, and there's major incompetence

It's one type of incompetence to keep the personal identifiers and financial data of customers on your laptop and then lose it -- twice;  It's an entirely different type of incompetence that allows government data to be compromised through a
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:01 PM

ADO.NET 2.0 Boot Camp

Sahil Malik, a prolific speaker, Microsoft MVP and author of "Professional ADO.NET 2.0" is holding a one-day ADO.NET boot camp in Charlotte next month.  If you are in the area, I think this class will definitely give you your money's worth. 
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Saturday, June 17, 2006 1:15 AM

Workaround: Adding a script map in IIS 5.1

I was contacted by a customer who commented that he could not add a Script Map to IIS 5.1.  After selecting his executable for the script map and adding his extension, the "OK" button was still disabled -- preventing him from committing the script
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Friday, June 16, 2006 8:08 AM

ASP.NET 1.1, IIS 6.0 and 64-bit Windows

A few days ago, one of the many distribution lists I belong to was presented with the following requests:  I’m trying to create a Web Service in Visual Studio .NET 2003 and am getting an error “Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 3:29 PM

Bill Gates affect on my mood

Being a new employee at Microsoft leaves me at a bit of a disadvantage in weeks like this.  First, we hear that our "chief blogging officer", Robert Scoble is leaving the company.  Today, it’s been announced that BillG will be stepping back
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Sunday, June 11, 2006 9:36 PM

Work-life balance; Robert Scoble; Weekends @ Microsoft

Since coming to Microsoft, I have heard a LOT about our policy on "work-life balance".   If you aren't familiar with what work-life balance is, a simple search on the web should satisfy your curiosity.  Essentially, we believe
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:40 PM

Improving Code Performance

Recently, an old co-worker contacted me to ask me a question about code performance. Specifically, he was emitting IL from his code and had some questions about some of the opcode usage he witnessed when viewing the IL of some compiled assemblies. 
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