Jul 1, 2009, 11:37PM It’s possible to do a lot of work with ASP.NET and not know anything about IIS, particularly if you work with a large team where IT specialists keep the riff-raff away from production web applications. [#]

Jul 1, 2009, 8:41PM All of the talks at this year's Norwegian Developer's Conference were recorded, which is always a treat.I did four talks as well as a live .NET Rocks show. It was a crazy week. I also recorded a half-dozen great podcasts. [#]

Jul 1, 2009, 11:16PM My one-hundred-and-sixty-eighth podcast is up. In this one, I chat with Aaron Bockover of Novell about the Banshee Project - a cross-platform Media Player. It's a Mono Application that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. [#]

Jul 1, 2009, 9:15PM I have never run into this problem before, but I just realized that in WCF applications when I provide a certificate reference with FindBySubjectName - it can fail if you have two similarly named (not identical) certificates. [#]

Jul 2, 2009, 12:00PM “Once upon a time, Microsoft started a Windows Azure developing contest named new CloudApp();. While it first was only available for US candidates, the contest was opened for international submissions too. [#]

Jun 27, 2009, 12:10AM The second D3 release is now up at: d3-0.0026.zip  It’s the fruit of my labors pretty much full-time this week because it has been “App Week” on the EF team this week.  What a great time!  My kids got out of school for summer... [#]

Jun 30, 2009, 1:51PM Passing parameters into a workflow is similar in WF4 as it was in WF3.In both case a Dictionary<string, object> is passed in when creating the workflow instance object. Alternatively when using the WF4 WorkflowInvoker you can pass it into the... [#]

Jun 29, 2009, 9:03PM Welcome to the fifty-first edition of Community Convergence. In this post I’m simply going to highlight some of the great blogging activity produced by our team in recent weeks. Eric Lippert has been wonderfully productive. [#]