July 2009 Entries
Remember that blog I wrote about installing VS 2010 in a Virtual Machine? Well, as I type this I’m doing a fresh install of VS 10 in my Windows 7 RC machine (not a VM). I just can’t take it anymore. Visual Studio 10 Beta 1 is painfully slow running on my Quad Core 8 GB Computer as a Virtual Machine. I even have the virtual hard drive file running on a second drive. You know, when I read about people like Scott Hanselman and Joel Spolsky writing about how the speed of their hard drives (SSD) makes such...
Routing was born with the creation of the asp.net MVC Framework. During the beta testing of the MVC framework people started asking for this feature to be included in asp.net so it could be used with web forms as well. The asp.net team listened and included Routing with the release of .net 3.5 SP1. Thanks for the history, but what exactly is routing? Routing enables you to use URLs that do not map to a physical location on the server. For example in a normal page request for the default.aspx resource there has to be a physical file default.aspx...
On July 1st I was given the news that I will be part of the elite group of the 2009 MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) program. The program consists of about 5000 people around the globe and is given to people who contribute to the Microsoft development and IT community for speaking at events, writing articles, blogging, and participating in forums. I was awarded the Visual C# MVP and you can see my profile here. I would like to thank everyone who attends my sessions, read my blog, read my articles, and give me the opportunity to answer their...