Dichotomy

My evening? Installing Xubuntu Linux on (yet another) older ThinkPad while looking over the Microsoft “ramp up” stuff on ASP to ASP.Net. I like to keep in touch with both worlds…



Server 2008 Changing with SP2

From the Server Core blog:

[Optional Features:]

Subset of .NET Framework 2.0
Subset of .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5 – WCF, WF, and LINQ
Windows PowerShell
ASP.NET and additional IIS support – the only IIS feature not available in Server Core is the management GUI

[...]

Now to wait to learn what “subset” will mean.

As a reminder, Server “Core” is the flavor

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More Microsoft Stuff

Microsoft sure has been busy lately, huh? Continuing on from the announcements earlier this week (Web Platform Installer and the PC Advisor preview) a few more new releases caught my eye today. I haven’t had a chance to try them yet, but figured I should at least share the wealth.

Web Application Installer – this one

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FrontPage Server Extensions = PITA

Thursday, one of the developers stopped by to tell me that he needed FrontPage Server extensions added to our dev server.

Now, I know he’s been working on some ASP.NET stuff so was forced to ask, “Why in the world do you need those?”

Turns out he was attempting to work with a pile of projects as

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More on the ASP.NET quest

Not much to talk about the geek front. I’ve been pretty consumed by my efforts to get a handle on ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2005 (and, to a lesser extent, Web Developer 2005 Express which is, as mentioned, free). I have Visual Studio on one machine and the Web Developer thingy on another.

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