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Visual Studio 2010 and Dot Net Framework 4.0 This is continuation of my series on Dot Net Framework 4.0, Dublin, Visual Studio 2010… On 29th Sep 2008 Microsoft announced release of Visual Studio 2010 and the Framework 4.0, the main aim behind release of these products is to target new trends such as cloud computing , SOA, application life cycle management etc. The Visual Studio Team System 2010 is code named as “ Rosaria ”, complete details about the product is not yet released by the Microsoft, we can expect lots of new information about Visual Studio 2010 and Dot Net Framework 4.0 in coming days. One of the cool features of Visual Studio 2010 is the support for cloud development with Windows Azur tool for Visual Studio 2010. Windows Azur is the new cloud service, Windows Azur allows developer with on demand compute and storage to host web application on the internet through Microsoft data center. (I will explain Windows Azur in my forthcoming blog). There are lots of changes compare...

Microsoft is releasing Dot Net Framework once in a a year or so, look at following history of Dot Net Framework.. Version Version Number Release Date 1.0 1.0.3705.0 2002-01-05 1.1 1.1.4322.573 2003-04-01 2.0 2.0.50727.42 2005-11-07 3.0 3.0.4506.30 2006-11-06 3.5 3.5.21022.8 2007-11-09 and now its turn of Dot Net Framework 4.0 Why Dot Net Framework 4.0?? More and more companies are adopting Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), (I am not going to explain SOA in this post, and it’s such an overloaded term and requires special dedication to explain) Service Orientation mainly takes use of WS-* standards to achieve service orientation. Managing new requirements, developing those requirements is become more complex. To overcome these difficulties Microsoft has enhanced .Net Framework and Windows Server, new version of Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF); Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a part of .Net Framework 4.0 for Windows Server. These enhanced capabilities codenamed as "Dub...

I am writing this blog after long time, this time I have decided to write something on IIS 6.0. Most of us are having very little knowledge on IIS 6.0 configuration and we know very little about the capabilities of IIS 6.0. Being a technical guy, the person who is involved in application development should know in and out of all the configuations which will help us to develope scalable application. I mean to say that, whether person is a Sr Manager or a trainee developer he should know all these tricks. Following are some of the tricks which we can use to scale up IIS 6.0 1. Recycle Recycle IIS processes on certain interval , though IIS does it on every 29 hours. Right click on 'Application Pool' , click on 'Properties' . Follwing window will get displayed. Even you can specify timing when IIS should recycle worker process or on number of requests. 2. Grow Web Garden This is one of the way to increase application pool performance. Web garder helps in a scenariao when wo...