Scott Hanselman's Weblog

I bought an HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server last Christmas, and haven't thought much about it since. It sits on the shelf and is pretty. Actually, that's not totally true, I did upgrade it to Power Pack 1 recently, but that was a 10 minute thing. For the most part, it's a conversation piece on a shelf in my new(ish) home office. Now, the story. I sold my wife's laptop to Shawn recently as she...

There's been some confusion about the size of the .NET Framework. The .NET Framework is not really a 200+ meg download. Which installer do I use? Here's the whole thing in a nutshell for Developers, ISVs, and Administrators. Offline Installer - One single file that can be run offline and can install the .NET Framework any system it's run on. It's complete, all platforms, installable...

There's a treasure trove of interesting stuff over at http://www.codeplex.com/as pnet. It's a bunch of potential future stuff that the ASP.NET team is working on. That's where you can get builds of ASP.NET MVC, Dynamic Data Futures, and new AJAX stuff. Two days ago a new CodePlex release snuck up on the site. It's a potential new feature, so it could go nowhere, or we could make T-shirts and sing...

Last October I posted a Macro-quasi-hack to Disable Reply To All and Forward in Outlook within your own company network. The technique uses a macro to flip a metadata bit in a message. Of course the only REAL way truly to disable Reply to All and Forward is to use IRM (Intellectual Rights Management) in Outlook 2003/7. However, this technique was useful to a lot of people as it is super simple...

In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-second in a infinite number of posts of "The Weekly Source Code." UPDATE: The BlogSvc.NET code has been refactored considerably, so consider checking out the Recent CheckIns to see what's changed.. BlogSvc.NET - The AtomPub Server for WCF and .NET Much respect to people who not only...

My one-hundred-and-twenty-six th podcast is up. I got to talk to John Resig the creator of jQuery. We talk about about how he developed jQuery, how it performs, and where he thinks it's headed. John Resig's Blog jQuery jQuery UI John Resig on Twitter Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show Torrent: Download via µtorrent ACTION: Please vote for us on Podcast...

Folks were hassling me in the comments for not posting the picosecond that .NET 3.5 SP1 came out (or, as I like to call it, .NET 3.6 - although the bosses really don't like that). First, the obvious stuff. Should I fear this release? I wouldn't. The SP1 Framework is full of goodness. The VS Installer is slow (it was for me) but I just shut everything down, ran it, and was patient. It's...