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Brian Delahunty

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• IIS Database Manager

  Posted: 08 Jun 2009 at 17:55 by bdela

  Back in March we released the RC of IIS Database Manager – a tool which allows you to manage databases remotely through the IIS remote management infrastructure. The tool will automatically pick up database connection strings from your web.config file and make them available to you in the UI – you can also create ad-hoc connections too. Over the next few days I’ll be posting overview of how to use some of the features of Database Manager and going into details of how it works where appropriate.

• Search Engine Optimization using IIS SEO Toolkit

  Posted: 05 Jun 2009 at 07:13 by bdela

  A few days ago we released the beta of IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit. The toolkit provides you with a number of features which can help you ensure that your site follows best practices with regards to how search engines crawl and parse your site as well as providing features for generating robots.txt files and sitemaps.

• new IIS Manager for remote administration

  Posted: 03 Jun 2009 at 18:56 by bdela

  It’s a bit strange that my “back-to-blogging” post is about a new version of Remote Manager considering that my last post, way back in March 2008 was a Remote Manager post as well (I have a good reason for not blogging since then which you’ll see at the end of this post :-) What’s different? The new version has some internal changes but the major new feature is the ability to remotely manage IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2 machines as well as Windows Server 2008 machines.

• Remote Administration: RTM of Remote Manager for Windows XP, 2k3 and Vista

  Posted: 10 Mar 2008 at 21:22 by bdela

  A few months back I posted[^] about the RC0 release of IIS Manager for Windows XP, 2k3 and Windows Vista. We've now released the RTM version which works with Windows 2008 (and we've removed the previous installs from www.iis.net). Both Bob and Carlos have posted about this and both have some good in

• IIS 7 configuration: Extending existing Configuration

  Posted: 10 Mar 2008 at 07:58 by bdela

  In my last post[^] I gave a quick overview of how to extend configuration. More specifically I covered extending configuration by adding new sections to configuration. One thing I also mentioned was that you can extending existing configuration sections too - that's what this post is about. Extendin

• IIS 7 Configuration: Basic Configuration Extensibility

  Posted: 06 Mar 2008 at 05:59 by bdela

  In IIS 7 we introduced a completely new configuration system which is used by the IIS runtime and all our administration tools. The configuration system is based on distributed XML files that contain the configuration for IIS, ASP.NET and other components; flexibility in the configuration system als

• Remote Administration: Managing IIS 7 (RCO) from Windows XP, 2k3 and Vista

  Posted: 09 Oct 2007 at 01:00 by bdela

  September 24th saw the release of Windows Server 2008 RC0 and along with that comes the latest release of IIS 7.0. One of the great new features of IIS 7 is the  remote administration support built into InetMgr (the administration UI). The admin UI provides server administrators

• Open for business...

  Posted: 18 Jul 2007 at 23:51 by bdela

  Well, I've finally gotten around to this. Since joining Microsoft and the IIS team I've been wanting to get this blog up and running but this small thing called "work" kept getting in the way. Today I've decided that enough is enough - time to get off my Irish ass and take 30 minutes to setup the bl

• TechEd 2007

  Posted: 02 Jun 2007 at 11:01 by Brian Delahunty

  Is anybody that's still listening to this blog going to TechEd in Orlando this year? If so, leave a comment here or drop me an email. I'm in Orlando at the moment (staying in Disney World Port Orleans resort - nice!) and would love to meet up - beer!!!! And if you're bored you could also come watch

• Post? What Post? When?

  Posted: 21 Mar 2007 at 06:32 by Brian Delahunty

  I haven't been blogging here in a while - partly because I've been busy getting life going over here and partly because I've been really, really, really busy in work. Work these days is in Microsoft - I'm a PM (Program Manager) on the IIS team and I own IIS Configuration and the IIS UI. I'll be blog

• 15.4" Dell Laptop Screen WANTED!

  Posted: 04 Sep 2006 at 15:06 by Brian Delahunty

  Bit of a long shot here but I'll give it a try anyway. The 15.4 inch WSXGA+ screen on my Dell Inspiron 8600 has been "on the blink" for quite some time... in fact, the thing is more or less unusable. So, I was wondering if anybody knows someone selling a laptop with a 15.4inch screen compatible with

• Photosynth - very very cool

  Posted: 30 Jul 2006 at 13:55 by brian@briandela.com

  Was just reading some blogs and came across Photosynth - it's a new technology from labs.live.com. Just watch or download the video about Photosynth here - very cool stuff! There is also a brilliant video about Photosynth up on Channel9 - "PhotoSynth: What. How. Why." Photosynth takes a large colle

• Garbage Collection in Action

  Posted: 27 Jul 2006 at 11:20 by brian@briandela.com

  An C# app I wrote that does a lot of in memory data manipulation and database work gives a good graphical view of GC in action. Image from process properties view using ProcessExplorer

• Joining Microsoft

  Posted: 20 Jul 2006 at 17:21 by brian@briandela.com

  On August 18th I'll be finishing up in the TSSG (a telecommunications research group based in Waterford Institute of Technology, where I have worked since my student placement in 3rd year of college) and moving on to another challenge. That challenge will start in September when I relocate the Seat

• Unit testing download code and AspNetDevelopmentServer

  Posted: 22 Jun 2006 at 16:30 by brian@briandela.com

  I just started writing some utility classes to handle the downloading of files - nothing major, just simple wrappers around HttpWebRequest, FileWebRequest, etc.. As we use test first development here (most of the time) I started writing the unit tests and the situation got me thinking about how to

• Come work in the Sunny South East!

  Posted: 16 May 2006 at 18:51 by Brian Delahunty

  We are currently hiring for the project that I am working on and are looking for enthusiastic and talented software developers. You'll get to work on a very interesting and innovative project in the commercialisation group of the Telecommunication Software & Systems Group research group in

• Develop Xbox 360 games in .NET

  Posted: 25 Mar 2006 at 01:20 by Brian Delahunty

  You no longer need to get a development version of the Xbox 360 to develop games and other apps for it... simply use C# or VB.NET... very very cool. Check out some more info here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikezintel/archive/2006/03/23/559511.aspx IrishBlogsWiFiWeb 2.0WindowsIrelandGrandCanyonMIX06Inter

• MIX06 and my Laptop

  Posted: 22 Mar 2006 at 19:33 by Brian Delahunty

  I brought my laptop to MIX06 with the intention of blogging as much as possible. I've been to 9 sessions and 3 keynotes so far... I've two more sessions left. Unfortunately my laptop has had other plans. My Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop screen is broken... it decides to work sometimes and the rest of th

• Bill Gates keynote at MIX06

  Posted: 21 Mar 2006 at 01:26 by Brian Delahunty

  Bill Gates mentioned a lot of items in his keynote at MIX06 today but there were no major announcements - he did mention “WPF/e”, which is a version of Windows Presentation Foundation for multiple devices and platforms. There is another keynote tomorrow from Joe Belfiore so perhaps

• MIX06 EMEA Preconference

  Posted: 20 Mar 2006 at 20:12 by Brian Delahunty

  I arrived in Las Vegas on Saturday night and, after a bit of site-seeing, promptly hit the bed as I was attending the EMEA MIX 06 Preconference event. It was definitely worth getting in those few extra hours of sleep. We got presentations from some of the WPF speakers and from the “Atlas@ team