I explained the internals of this tool here - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/WebInfo.aspx

You can also download this tool from this page.

A direct download link is here also.

Below dotnet code will get you some server information about a website it is hosted. Note that sever can mock or disable data it is provided.

  WebClient wc = new WebClient();
            string site = @"http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/";
            wc.Headers.Add("user-agent", 
		"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)");
 
            Stream data = wc.OpenRead(site);
 
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
 
            for (int i = 0; i < wc.ResponseHeaders.Count;i++ )
            {
                sb.Append((i + 1).ToString() + ". " + wc.ResponseHeaders.AllKeys[i] 
		+ " = " + wc.ResponseHeaders[i] + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine);
            }
 
            textBox1.Text = sb.ToString();

It will give you output something like this:

1. Transfer-Encoding = chunked

2. Connection = keep-alive

3. Content-Type = text/html

4. Date = Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:01:12 GMT

5. Set-Cookie = baae2eccb5afb3a4498920bf2be6d145=7b74e4dbb0363da1fca55289debdd8a0; expires=Mon, 30-Aug-2010 23:01:11 GMT; path=/,mosvisitor=1

6. Server = nginx/0.7.65

7. X-Powered-By = PHP/5.2.6

8. Expires = Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT

9. Last-Modified = Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:01:12 GMT

10. Cache-Control = no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate,post-check=0, pre-check=0

11. Pragma = no-cache

WCF DataServices enables the creation and consumption of OData services for the web (formerly known as ADO.NET Data Services). Windows Server AppFabric provides tools for managing and monitoring your web services and workflows.

The AppFabric WCF Data Service template brings these two products together providing the following features:

• Monitor the queries to your service across multiple servers with AppFabric Monitoring
• Properly report errors to Windows Server AppFabric (WCF Data Service errors are not recognized by AppFabric otherwise)
• Eliminate the .svc extension from the URI by using routing
• Provide a simple HTML page for invoking the service with or without the .svc extension

Source: msdn

Download link here.

The Microsoft Security Compliance Manager provides centralized security baseline management features, a baseline portfolio, customization capabilities, and security baseline export flexibility to accelerate your organization’s ability to efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.

Key Features & Benefits

• Centralized Management and Baseline Portfolio: The centralized management console of the Security Compliance Manager provides you with a unified, end-to-end user experience to plan, customize, and export security baselines. The tool gives you full access to a complete portfolio of recommended baselines for Windows® client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications. The Security Compliance Manager also enables you to quickly update the latest Microsoft baseline releases and take advantage of baseline version control.
• Security Baseline Customization: Customizing, comparing, merging, and reviewing your baselines just got easier. Now you can use the new customization capabilities of the Security Compliance Manager to duplicate any of the recommended baselines from Microsoft—for Windows client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications—and quickly modify security settings to meet the standards of your organization’s environment.
• Multiple Export Capabilities: Export baselines in formats like XLS, Group Policy objects (GPOs), Desired Configuration Management (DCM) packs, or Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) to enable automation of deployment and monitoring baseline compliance.
• The Security Compliance Manager Getting Started Guide is now available to download. Download this short guide to quickly set up and customize the Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool. The guide also includes brief instructions on using the SCM tool to deploy and monitor security baselines for the latest server and client operating systems from Microsoft.

An interesting article is there in allpm.com

One of the most exciting feature of this version lets you synchronize data stored in SQL Server or SQL Server Compact with SQL Azure in the cloud.

Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline scenarios for applications, services, and devices. Using Microsoft Sync Framework, developers can build applications that synchronize data from any source using any protocol over any network.

Download SDK from here

You might be annoyed with the behaviour of RDC window size/screen bar.

Simply go to Options –> Display –> Display Configuration:Slider – move to ‘Large’. You can see text ‘Full Screen’ under the slider.

Just posted one article on codeproject.com.

Here is the URL: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/php_asp_net.aspx

This article is about finding out equivalent features of PHP and ASP.NET

Read what Karsten Januszewski have to explain about this hereL

URL: http://visitmix.com/LabNotes/The-Archivist-Architecture

DevCon 2010 part-2 will be conducting at Technopark on 4th sept 2010 with the following agenda.

08:30AM – 09:30AM – Registration Confirmation
09:30AM – 10:30AM – Functional programing with F#
10:30AM – 11:30AM – Power Shell – Your Wish is my Command
11:30AM – 11:45AM – Tea Break
11:45AM – 12:30PM – Visual Studio 2010 tips
12:30PM – 01:15PM – ASP.NET MVC2
01:15PM – 02:00PM – Lunch
02:00PM – 02:45PM – Great Developer Contest – Final
02:45PM – 03:45PM – Office Addins with Visual Studio 2010
03:45PM – 04:30PM – Entity Framework 4
04:30PM – 05:00PM – Closing Ceremony

More details and registration details here