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Is IIS7 on Vista not serving static content?

If you add IIS7 and ASP.NET on Vista, many of the common HTTP modules are not installed by default – including the one for static content. The problem is that it doesn’t return a 404 or other error, but rather zero-byte files. If you’re seeing empty files returned for CSS, images and JScript files, this...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-02-2008
We are looking to hire good developers

Notches is hiring developers . We’re looking to bring on developers to be part of the core engineering team. We want people that can contribute to the product in a myriad of ways beyond coding. We want people who can ask the tough questions and challenge us. We want people who are not afraid to take...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-12-2008
The Enterprise, The iPhone, and the Role of Silverlight

With its recent announcement to support ActiveSync on the iPhone , Apple is clearly going after the enterprise user. The problem, as Colin puts it, is that the decisions that consumers make decisions on a radically different set of criteria than organizations . Lack of Exchange support was surely holding...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-27-2008
Congrats to Faisal on his new role on the ADO.NET team

My good buddy Faisal has moved from MSBuild to ADO.NET . Specifically, he's the Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and the Object Service for Entity Framework. He says you'll hear a lot more from him on these things, but of course if past history is any indication his blogging will be short lived...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-05-2007
Microsoft Silverlight

A lot of people are very excited about Silverlight , the technology that was formerly known as WPF/E. Jesse says it will give Flash a real run for its money because of a better video story (emphasis in original). Unlike Flash, Silverlight (the new name) will support DRM, it supports the industry standard...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-25-2007
OpenID gaining momentum

On the heels of Microsoft's announcement that it will support OpenID in CardSpace , AOL has become the latest major player to support OpenID . "Every AOL/AIM user now has at least one OpenID URI". This is big news. We made the decision to use OpenID as the sole authentication mechanism on a product we...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-17-2007
SQL Server installation problems on Vista? (Failed to compile the Managed Object Format)

I've been having issues installing SQL Server 2005 tools (i.e., Management Studio) on Vista. I know it works because I was able to get it installed on my tablet also running Vista - I just couldn't get it on my desktop. I thought it might be related to SQLEXPRESS installed as part of the VS.NET 2005...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-22-2007
SubSonic

We've been using SubSonic lately, which I first bookmarked from Scott's post . Essentially, the project is an implementation of the ActiveRecords pattern from Ruby on Rails in .NET. Or as the authors describe it, , "a toolset that helps a website build itself". I'm using it on a project I'm working on...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-22-2007
Managing Exceptions in Framework Code

One of the long-running debates here has been the use of exceptions for managing workflow. This was especially fierce while we were working on the Javascript framework, but it has died down a little in the strongly-typed .NET world. The two major questions are: ... when should should you return false...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-04-2006

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