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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
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
An Introduction to OpenID

OpenID, which describes itself as "an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity", has been gaining momentum and getting press in the Identity 2.0 space. The fundamental idea of OpenID is that a URI is necessarily unique and thus a good way to identify users. If you say you...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-15-2007
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
If you can read a file, you can copy it

Raymond reminds us that there is no "Copy" access mask because copying is not a fundamental file operation . Copying a file is just reading it into memory and then writing it out. Once the bytes come off the disk, the file system has no control any more over what the user does with them. Something to...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-09-2007
JSON and XML

Back at the PDC, I mentioned that Microsoft chose JSON over XML in Atlas, its AJAX framework. The debate has reared its head again recently, prompted largely by Tim Bray's post . Tim says that JSON is great for its single intended purpose, "to put structs on the wire." Dare, who used to work on the XML...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-05-2007
The Prevalence and Danger of SQL Injection

Michael Sutton looks at the prevalence of SQL injection vulnerabilities ( via Bruce Schneier ). He tested 708 different servers and found verbose SQL errors on 80 of them (11.3%) - numbers that are not, as Michael says, surprising but are certainly sobering. Michael acknowledges that his method is imperfect...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-12-2006

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