Oxite: CMS Open Source ASP .NET & MVC based

Hello everyone…

“Webeando”…is a popular word in my country that means, surfing over the internet :P, in one of these days I found in the blog of my sensey “Edgar Sanchez” a CMS Open Source ASP .NET based.

Oxite is already rocks in internet in the site VisitMix, the site looks great, but the important things about Oxite are:

1. ASP .NET based, but with a little feature extra, it uses the architecture MVC over the page controllers of the ASP .NET forms.
2. Oxite is 100% open source.

Well is true that MVC is an architecture so flexible and scalable, but a little complex to learn and use, but now with Oxite we can test and learn MVC in order to implement it over test sites or production sites.

In a future post I describe the Microsoft ASP .NET – MVC proposal.

Paul

Developing OpenSource software with C#

Hello,

Since 2007 it is the policy of some countries to use OpenSource software within their ministries, coordination, or units that they want to call in each of their countries ...

The question is, can only develop software OpenSource with Java or PHP or any of those languages?

There is the an option for C# developers, Mono project, an OpenSource platform that allows you to run applications developed using C # environments in both Windows, Linux and Mac, which I think is an excellent choice for developing Web applications and desktop.

Now, if this option exists, it is feasible to use it to develop software with C # and OpenSource able to compete with companies that use Java or PHP?

Norton 360 3.0 Beta & Kaspersky Anti-virus 8.0 Beta…both for Windows 7

Well…

After a clean installation of Windows 7, the system is so stable and more faster than Vista. I’ve test 7 in the same machine that I used to work with Vista, and the resources, memory management and look & feel are better, more flexible and useful.

As the post says Norton & Kaspersky for 7, so these are the facts: I decided to test this suites for two aspects, performance and protection.

Norton 360 3.0 Beta in mi machine with these features: Core 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz; 2GB RAM; Windows 7 Ultimate for x86…Norton 360 totally crashes…

The system becomes unstable, slow, removable media presents mal function, video and sound crashed. So I proceed to update machine, drivers, review the checklist for Norton 360, remove some hardware that I think that maybe present problems, but anything function.

Conclusion Norton 360 is not the best choice for 7 right now…at least for my machine :P. Well the two products are in beta state for now, so when an RC or final version will become more stable.

Today I’ve installed Kaspersky Anti-virus 8.0 Beta for Windows 7, it looks well:

Really I don’t experience any problems….yet, the product is stable, a little annoying with user messages in the mode of learning, but besides that I really like the product.

The next week I’ll test AVG so wait for the post :P…

Paul

Anti-virus programs for Windows 7

As we know in these days, the security of any operating system as their own is not enough, specially with the number of threads that everyday appear in internet.

Is for that reason that Symantec, AVG & Kaspersky recently present versions of protection suites: Norton 360 3.0 Beta, AVG Internet Security 8.0 & Technical Preview Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Microsoft Windows 7.

Brandon LeBlanc, Windows communications manager on the Windows Client Communications Team, revealed that “Microsoft had been hard at work attempting to get security providers to offer anti-virus for Windows 7. No less than three companies have rushed to Microsoft's call, and are offering their products even if Windows 7 is still in Beta”.

The promise from Microsoft is that the list of security providers that support Windows 7 will grow. “We will add additional partners to the Windows 7 Security Provider page when they make Windows 7 versions publicly available,” LeBlanc said.

For download & test the versions listed above, you can download each one from this links:

1. Norton 360 3.0 Beta is available for download here.
2. AVG Antivirus Professional 8.0 is available for download here.
3. AVG Internet Security 8.0 is available for download here.
4. Technical Preview Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Microsoft Windows 7  is available for download here.

Actually I’m testing Norton 360 3.0 Beta in Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7000 in the next post I’ll describe my experience.

Paul…

Windows 7 is available for download!!!

Microsoft recently published a site called Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview Program. In this site you can download the Windows 7 Beta (x86 or x64) directly.

Microsoft says that the beta will be available only for 2'500.000 downloads, so if you're so interested probably the site is block for download. On the other hand you can download it using a torrent; the torrent is the same build that Microsoft unleashed; Windows 7 Build 7000.

The MSDN Subscribers already have the iso image for download, among other related things.

This beta will be expired on August 1 of 2009.

See ya...

Paul...

You may be unable to manage IIS by using Server Manager if two threads access IIS at the same time

As the title says, you maybe unable to manage IIS, consider the following scenario, when you have a process that has more than one thread running, additionally, the process uses the Internet Information Services (IIS) and Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) provider to access IIS. and the two threads access IIS at the same time.

When this problem occurs, you must restart IIS, or the process that uses the IIS ADSI provider. This problem is likely to occur for the SharePoint Timer service (OWSTimer.exe) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. When this problem occurs you may experience the following symptoms:

The IIS options tree is empty, and when you try to connect to the local server you receive the error shows in the image and this so beautiful stack:

Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchAdminSharedWebServiceInstance (42a6deab-10d6-4579-bdc3-10c1beefb6ca).

Reason: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

Techinal Support Details:

System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

In this url you can find more info about it and a hot fix to solve the problem.

This issue affects to IIS 6.0 and 7.0 as described in the KB article in the link.

Hope it helps…

Greetings…

Paúl…

SharePoint Server 2007 over Windows Server 2003 x64

OK, these are the facts...

As we know the 64 bits applications actually are like a rising force...more and more applications are taking the new environment.

Windows is not the exception, 64 bits versions support both 32 and 64 bits applications, but in some cases with some restrictions. Internet Information Server (IIS) supports both modes for ASP .NET applications, however IIS 6.0 does not support running both modes at the same time on a 64-bit version of Windows. ASP.NET 1.1 runs only in 32-bit mode. ASP.NET 2.0 runs in 32-bit mode or in 64-bit mode. Therefore, if you want to run ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 at the same time, you must run IIS in 32-bit mode.

In a x64 Sharepoint installation that I recently was put into production, I has a so hard problem, after an installation of an ISAPI filter for PHP over IIS causes the problem, because this ISAPI filter runs over 32 bits.

Sharepoint sites, and Central Administration shows the message Service Unavailable and nothings work, after review all the sites, configuration and SO configuration, the IIS running in 32 bits mode in a 64 bits system. IS for that reason that the IIS crashes.

There are two ways to solve this problem:

1. Uninstalling the ISAPI filter, SharePoint Server 2007 and all sites, Framework 2.0 and finally IIS, then reinstall everything; is a long way and so hard in administrative effort, or...
2. Uninstall the ISAPI filter, set the 64 bits mode of IIS using this command: cscript %SYSTEMDRIVE%\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 0; search for and ISAPI filter of 64 bits, and then run Sharepoint sites. These should be enough for the normal operation of IIS if anything else occurred we can discussed it in the blog.

These solutions are probed to work in most cases, SharePoint and Windows Server and their support for both modes, needs more careful and a little more planing for deployment, specially like my case, when can coexist with other technologies.

Greetings...

Paul

Windows 7: Beta 1 is ready and available over the Internet

Microsoft actually plans to delivered the first beta version of Windows 7 in the middle of January/2009 after the Steven Balmer's presentation on CES 2009. This beta will be available to all public in general. Paul Thurrott's page, describe in screen shots the installation process of Windows 7, Thurrott indicated that, the look of the new SO, is so similar as Vista, but with new enhancements and optimizations that gives to the SO more stability.

If you know how to use torrents, you can download the beta version of Windows 7 for 32 bits, if you're interested.

Happy New Year 2009

Paul