MSDN Flash: Volume 15, Number 6 - March 15, 2011
Editorial News and Notes from Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie
Get In the IIS Express Lanes with Visual Studio 2010 SP 1
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
Service Pack. The name doesn't usually generate a lot of excitement for most folks. Not surprising, since most service packs are mostly rollups of bug fixes and enhancements, based on customer feedback and instrumentation. And that's a good thing. Sometimes boring is fine.
But there is one exciting thing in Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 that I think is worth getting excited about, and that is the integration of IIS Express into Visual Studio 2010. For those of you who haven't heard of it, IIS Express was introduced with the new Microsoft WebMatrix, and it provides the benefits of the local web server built into Visual Studio since VS 2005 (no admin permissions needed, no need to install IIS and run as a service, etc.) while providing the full feature set of IIS 7.x.
Prior to IIS Express, if you wanted to test your web application with SSL, HTTP Compression, URL rewriting rules, or a host of other features, you had no choice but to set up an IIS server, since the built-in Visual Studio web server did not support these features.
Once you've installed Service Pack 1, you can take advantage of IIS Express from within Visual Studio 2010. Simply right-click a web project in Solution Explorer and select "Use IIS Express..." and you're done. Now, when you debug your application, IIS Express will be started for you automatically, and the full feature set will be available to you.
Upcoming Web Camps
Your humble DE and his fellow Web geeks, Rachel Appel and Chris Bowen have kicked off our next series of events, this time 1 and 2-day web camps. And we're coming to a town near you! For the 1-day camps, we'll be talking about ASP.NET MVC 3 from beginning to end. For the 2-day camps, we'll add a second day of hands-on labs. Here's where we'll be and when:
2-Day Web Camps
1-Day Web Camps
Come and catch us if you can, and tell your friends, too!
Code Camp Announcements
A couple upcoming code camps to be aware of:
So whether you're from the northern or southern part of Mid-Atlantic, we've got you covered.
Devhammer Live!
I'm doing a bunch of user group talks over the next few months, so if you'd like to see me present, check out the list below.
My next user group talk will be an introduction to Windows Phone 7 development at the Frederick Web Technologies Meetup on March 22.
I'll also be speaking about Microsoft WebMatrix, IIS Express, and the new Razor syntax at the Capital Area .NET User Group on April 26.
If you're interested in having me speak at your group, just drop me a line. I'm happy to give the above talk, or cover other web technologies you might be interested in.
Did I miss a code camp or other event? Let me know.
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To find out about and/or promote upcoming local developer and IT pro community events, check out Community Megaphone. And check out our podcast, too.
You can also find out about local and national developer and gadget stuff on my blog. You should also follow me on twitter.
Want to learn more about the speakers you'll see at user groups and code camps, and up-and-coming personalities in the developer community? Check out the Community Megaphone Podcast! You can find the podcast on the web, on Zune and iTunes, and you can follow us on Twitter, or become a fan on Facebook!
Interested in hosting a Code Camp or similar community event, and not sure where to start? Drop me a line and I can help you get started.
Want to share your information or make suggestions for future updates? You can contact me via my blog.
Until next time...
G. Andrew Duthie
Developer Evangelist, Mid-Atlantic States District
Andrew Duthie has been working with computers since the days of the Commodore PET, hacking game programs loaded from cassette tapes to say funny stuff, and has been writing and speaking about developer technologies for more than a decade. |
