Microsoft has released ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM for Visual Studio 2008 SP1.

Note Because Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 RC share a component of ASP.NET MVC 2, installing the ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM release on a computer where Visual Studio 2010 RC is also installed is not supported.

New Features in ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM

The following features are new since the RC release of ASP.NET MVC 2.

Templated Helpers Allow You to Specify Extra View Data

ASP.NET MVC 2 now includes new overloads of the EditorFor and DisplayFor methods. These overl...

If you are upgrading from windows xp to windows 7 there is a change in the way you install Internet Information Services. On windows xp you would install IIS from add/remove windows components. This is different in Windows 7; it is very similar how it is done on Vista.

Go to Control Panel and click on Programs, on the following screen click on Turn Windows features on or off (see image below)

After that, select Internet Information Services and click ok

Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the WebDAV extension for IIS handles HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a specially crafted anonymous HTTP request to gain access to a location that typically requires authentication.

Here is what such an attack looks like (from http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8704)

The attacker sends a HTTP GET requ...

So yesterday I got a new machine at work. I decided to only install SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 on this box. First I installed Visual Studio 2008, after that I installed Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and then I installed SQL Server 2008. I still remember when I tried to install SQL Server 2008 RTM on my older machine with Visual Studio 2008 and it wouldn’t do it because you needed SP1 for the framework first, this got released 2 days later or so.

So then I noticed that IIS was not installed on this box, of course you need the CD/DVD to add components to the Oper...

Let’s say you get 1000 hits per second on your website’s home page, you want user to feel that the site is as real time as possible without overloading your database. These hits on your site display some data from the database and are mostly reads; for every 10 reads there is one write.

Yes you can cache it for 1 minute and the database won’t be hit that much. By doing this it will look like your site doesn’t update so often. Now what will happen if you do a 1 second cache? You will eliminate most of the reads and your site will still look like it is updatin...