Things missing in IIS7

Some things that I've noticed are missing in IIS7 that comes with Vista.

• WebDAV (as mentioned to me by Ben)
• FrontPage extensions
• The SMTP service

WebDAV is a big problem for our production web server, as we currently promote that as the way for people to edit their content.

Blog This for Firefox 2.0 now available for Windows Live Writer

Microsoft have released a Firefox Extension (amazing in itself!) to add a Blog This button that launches Windows Live Writer.

I quite like Live Writer, particularly as it understands how to put <p> tags around paragraphs of text. All it is missing is support for Blogger Beta tags and uploading images. Hopefully these features will be coming soon.

Feature Specifications for Visual Studio and .NET Framework

Microsoft have started to publish the feature specifications for Visual Studio and .NET Framework that will be part of the next version.