BillS IIS Blog

IIS Media Services 3.0 has been released and is now available as a free download for Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2!  Chris Knowlton has a comprehensive post on the release and all the details, here is a quick summary:

I am looking for a super-star designer, to work full time @ Microsoft and report directly to me. This position will oversee the design architecture and visual branding of some of the most important visual assets of the Microsoft Web Platform. I am looking for an experienced, senior designer who can work in a dynamic team environment and do it all, from prototyping new looks and experiences to managing design-related contractor or vendor resources as well as someone who doesn’t mind rolling up their sleeves when necessary to implement the nitty-gritty details in HTML and CSS for large traffic sites. 

Just ran into this and thought I’d share.  If you are trying to connect to a "user instance" of SQL Server from your Web application running on Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 and you’re getting a message that looks like this:

Today we’re launching a number of really cool things for Web developers.

Microsoft’s strategy with open source has evolved over the past several years as we strive to make Windows the platform of choice for customers.  My team has participated in that process first hand, we’ve worked hard with the PHP community to ensure PHP runs great on Windows, integrated PHP installation into the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, and engaged some of the most popular PHP applications like WordPress, Drupal, and SugarCRM to ensure customers have a great experience running these applications on Windows and IIS.  We’ve also worked closely with the jQuery project to make it a natural part of building applications with ASP.NET. 

Today is a BIG day for the Microsoft Web Platform and a BIG day for the WEB.  I’m down in Las Vegas at MIX and I just got off stage from the keynote where I demo’d just one of the many exciting and cool new things that make the Microsoft Web Platform better than ever.  For example:

Back in May of 2007 I posted a tips for Classic ASP developers post which has since received more than 50 comments and 85,000 views.  Robert McMurray just posted a set of fabulous tutorials for Classic ASP developers.  If you’re out there and having issues with Classic ASP and IIS7 and need some help, you’re not alone!  Read these articles to get help:

The Application Request Router (ARR) has reached final release and is now available as a free, fully-supported download for IIS7!  ARR enables Web server administrators and hosting providers and to increase Web application reliability and scalability through rule-based routing and load balancing of HTTP server requests. With ARR, administrators can optimize resource utilization for application servers to reduce management costs for Web farms and shared hosting environments.  Read more about the key scenarios and features of ARR on the IIS.net/extension site.