Deep Thoughts with Richard Schoen

UltiDev Cassini is a free, light-weight and  redistributable web server  that can host  ASP.NET 2.0 and 1.1  applications and static HTML sites. Whenever your customers need an alternative to IIS — UltiDev Cassini web server is the answer. UltiDev Cassini was built using Microsoft Cassini web server sample as a base, but was vastly improved and expanded compared to original Cassini sample by adding lots of new features and fixing existing bugs. UltiDev Cassini runs on all flavors of Windows XP including Windows XP Home, Windows Vista, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Server.

Well, we started testing Windows Vista this summer to see how well our software would run on the new upcoming Windows platform. Short of a few tighter security items, Windows Vista seems to look and feel a lot like Windows XP. I just read an item that said Windows Vista would be released in January.  I’m thinking it just might start showing up in stores in time for Christmas.  Either way I can report that RJS plans to support the Vista operating system from day one. This doesn’t mean that there won’t be issues we run in to, but it does mean that your investment in RJS products will be safe for at least the next 7 years, since that’s probably when the next Windows Desktop OS version will be released if history is any indicator. But what do I know, I can’t see the future

One of my favorite system utility companies was gobbled up by Microsoft this year. Sysinternals has been my favorites spot to go when I need a free tool to allow me to forcefully end windows processes, look at remote PC processes, restart computers and tell me why a program won’t run because of file permissions.
After Microsoft acquired Sysinternals, I thought the freebie utilities might go away, but to my delight these utilities are still FREE. They are just now part of the Microsoft site. The FREE utilities are available from the Sysinternals link. The commercial cousins of these products are available at Winternals.