FYI: SharePoint 2010 become 64-bit only.
Posted by Chandana | Filed under Community, News, SharePoint, Windows
This is not totally hot news. But I guess community isn’t much aware about this. So, If you are a SharePoint lover and If you are planning to buy notebook/PC in coming months, please make sure to buy x64-bit compatible hardware as SharePoint 2010 become 64-bit only. It’s all about improving the performance and flexibility. Here are the quick info about SharePoint Server 2010 preliminary system requirements:
- SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only
- SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2
- SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005
Tags: SharePoint 2010, Windows, Windows 2008, x64
How to Install Azure SDK and Azure Tools on Windows 7 RC?
Posted by Chandana | Filed under .NET, Azure, C#, MS SQL Server, Microsoft, Visual Studio, Windows, Windows 7
Few months ago, I posted about “How to setup Windows Azure development environment on Windows 2008” and today I am going to show you “How to setup Windows Azure development environment on Windows 7 RC”. When comparing with Windows 2008 setup, now we have minimum steps to configure Windows Azure development environment on Windows 7 RC.
Here are the quick steps:
- IIS 7.0 (with ASP.NET, WCF HTTP Activation and optionally CGI) * Please follow ” To enable IIS 7.0 with ASP.NET and WCF HTTP Activation on Windows Vista”.
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 or Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition with SP1.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition with Service Pack 1.
- Hot fix: Native Debugging Improvements (not required for Visual Studio 2010).
- Install Windows Azure Software Development Kit (May 2009 CTP).
- Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (May 2009 CTP).
If you face any issue while installing, please share with me. I am really happy to help you.
Tags: Azure, SQL Server, Windows 2008, Windows 7
Our Valued Sponsors for June 2009 User Group Meeting.
Posted by Chandana | Filed under CDNUG, Community, News
Below are listed the companies that are sponsoring the group by providing giveaways. Thank you to all those helping to make our group happen!
Tags: CDNUG, Community, Sponsors, User Group
Windows Azure Presentation @ Sri Lanka .NET User Group Meeting
Posted by Chandana | Filed under Azure, CDNUG, Community, MVP, Microsoft, Windows
Here are the hosted slides of my presentation (Sri Lanka .NET User Group monthly meeting). Actually, I really wanted to talk more about Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure platform. But due to limited time, even I was not in a position to demonstrate and explain about Azure application staging and deployment part. Anyway, I may be able to take few minutes in coming month User Group session to explain those points.
BTW: Gayani did the nice session on LINQ to SQL. You better visit her blog to catch more info about the session.
Tags: Azure, CDNUG, Community, Microsoft, Sri Lanka .NET Froum, Windows
Windows Azure Geo-location Live
Posted by Chandana | Filed under Azure, Microsoft, News, Windows
Now you have the option to put the Azure service in an Affinity Group and select the Region for that Affinity Group. You will get this feature while you are creating Hosted Service or Storage Service project. How about compute in one location and storage in another location? Anyway, Currently Microsoft supports Geo-Locations in USA while Amazon is providing the services in Europe too.
If you don’t have the Microsoft Azure CTP account, now is the high time to have it : http://dev.windowsazure.com
Tags: Azure, Microsoft, News, Windows
Steps to setup Windows Azure development environment on Windows 2008
Posted by Chandana | Filed under .NET, Azure, IIS, Microsoft, Visual Studio, Windows
Here, I am going to show you “How to configure Windows Azure development environment on Windows 2008″. To understand easily, I decided to show it step by step. Installation may ask you to restart the machine after 6 and 8 steps.
FYI: If you don’t have Windows Azure account, then you better register and apply it early. Due to hot demand it may takes few days to activate your account.
- Install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
- Install IIS7 with ASP.NET/CGI.
- Install Visual Studio 2008 with SP1.
- SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (or above).
- Enable WCF HTTP activation via Service Manager.
- Install Hotfix: Improve Visual Studio Stability.
- Install KB967631: Update for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Debugger.
- Install Hotfix: Support for FastCGI on the Development Fabric.
- Install Windows Azure Software Development Kit (March 2009 CTP).
- Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP.
- Getting Windows Azure Account/Token.
- Create an application: https://lx.azure.microsoft.com
- Open Visual Studio 2008: New –> Project –> Cloud Services –> Web Cloud Service
- Write Hello World code in the Default.aspx
- Publishing Service Project / Deploying /Uploading to the Windows Azure clouds.
- Hit RUN
PS: Invitation codes no longer needed to sign up for .NET Services and SQL Services.
Tags: Azure, Microsoft, TIP, Visual Studio, Windows
Next Wave of Microsoft Office Products
Posted by Chandana | Filed under Community, Microsoft, News, SharePoint
Yesterday (15/04/2009) Microsoft announced the new version of Microsoft Office related products list and brand names too. Here is the quick list:
- Exchange 2010 - Available in the second half of 2009.
- Office 2010 / SharePoint Server 2010 (No official name for WSS yet) / Visio 2010 / Project 2010 - Technical Preview Available in the third quarter of 2009 and will release to manufacturing in the first half of 2010.
You can read Microsoft official announcement here.
Tags: Announcement, Microsoft, News
I have received the MVP Award Kit !
Posted by Chandana | Filed under Community, MVP, Microsoft, News, Personal
Tags: Microsoft, MVP, Personal
Happy Sinhala and Hindu New Year !
Posted by Chandana | Filed under News, Personal
Tags: Personal
applicationHost.config - Configuration file is not well-formed XML
Posted by Chandana | Filed under IIS, TIP, Windows
This is totally IIS configuration related issue as applicationHost.config marked as corrupted. You may get this error due to various reasons like OneCare or Forefront is running on the same machine, unmanaged restoration, erroneous editing of applicationHost.config, etc. Here I am going to show you quick recovery method without going any deep. Technically we are going to restore the applicationHost.config file form IIS generated backups by using AppCmd.exe command line tool.
- Go to the Command Propmet.
- Change the path to > %windir%\system32\inetsrv\
- Find the current backup list > %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe list backup
- Select the latest backup by sequence number
- Restore the backup > %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe restore backup <backup name>
If you want to enjoy more technical details about this issue or its related technical resources, this is the best article : http://tinyurl.com/5edqb7
