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How the Specialize Configuration Pass is Used

Alexander Wechsler writes "...It is used in combination with the generalize pass, taking the reference image created by this one as basement for its own configuration tailored with the help of Active Directory or other additional information provided in the answer file. One is able to configure..."

BIG Tip on ASP.NET MVC 2 and Windows Azure

Steven Smith writes "...If you upgrade an Azure web instance to use ASP.NET MVC 2, make sure you mark the System.Web.Mvc reference as Copy Local = true. Otherwise..."

MIX Day 2 Keynote - Put the Phone Down and Listen

Andrew Brust writes "...the crown jewel in today’s keynote were the numerous announcements around the Open Data Protocol (OData). OData is nothing more than the protocol side of “Astoria”...When Microsoft plays the data card, and plays it well, watch out, because data programmability is the company’s heritage...Today upped the ante even more..."

Microsoft Did Not Drop the Call on WP7 it is More Than Promising

Ciprian Jichici writes "...First, the user experience. This one is truly amazing...seen some demos of Silverlight-based applications...Second, access to native phone functions...these functions are going to be fully accessible from our apps...Third, developer tools...Fourth, gaming. Windows Phone 7 supports XNA. Same programming, same code, same tools. We’ve seen a true 3D game demoed on it...Fifth and final, ecosystem. I was glad to see..."

Will Ease-of-Development Propel the WP7

Andrew Brust writes "...WP7 has the potential to make mobile developers want to switch over, and to convince enterprise developers to get into the phone scene. Will this propel the new phone platform to new heights, and restore Microsoft’s competiveness in the mobile arena? I hope so. I think so. And if Microsoft uses developers to build themselves a victory, that would be..."

Code Bubbles: Disruption Comes to the IDE

Andrew Brust writes "... Code Bubbles is an IDE for Java development. Why didn’t Microsoft come up with something like this for .NET devs? Between the existing features in Visual Studio 2010, its WPF code editor, and the fact that OneNote’s UI bears some affinity to Code Bubbles’, it’s interesting that Microsoft still has not thought outside of its own “box” to get us something like this...ASP.NET site...is taking votes on this very issue...vote!"

Silverlight Discovery xap Caching in IIS

Ken Spencer writes "...I was having a problem where my SL app was not updating. Looked at the IIS settings and finally stumbled on Output Caching. To see if this would work, i added a rule for..."

How the Dynamic Management View (DMV) Works

Paul Randal writes "...There's no progress reporting from the DMV (or DBCC SHOWCONTIG) but if you look at the reads column in sys.dm_exec_sessions you can see how far through the operation it is. This method works best for DETAILED scans, where [you] can compare that number against the in_row_data_page_count for..."