Jim Zimmerman - ASP.NET, MVC, Ajax and ORM

I have owned a Dell Inspiron 9400 for almost 2 years with Vista Ultimate and have enjoyed it for the most part.  I had some issues with wireless and getting the sluggish feeling after I had visual studio, 20 browser tabs open, iis 7, sql server, etc. all open at the same time.  Of course I thought, well i have a lot of stuff running at same time so of course it will be slower.  Well now with Windows 7 I have not one wireless issue, speed is crazy faster and I  am still only using 1 gb of ram of 2 gb available. 

I am absolutely shocked a how much better I like my laptop.  I have a 8 Gb Vista 64 desktop at home, so my laptop is always going to seem sluggish, but now I really like using my laptop.  I am not looking forward to having to wipe it again when the beta expires, but is well worth the joy i now get from my laptop. 

I love the new task bar and my favorites always being down there.  I can’t remember if I have even done a full reboot in a month.  Oh if you are going to try this at home, make sure to do a clean install. 

I was stumped the other day as to why i could not get a 301 redirect in from site.com to www.site.com on IIS 7.  After much looking around I found out that you need to enable this feature in the server manager. 

Then you need to go back to the IIS node that you want to enable 301 redirect for:

And then set the values for your redirect:

If you notice what is also cool is that it will redirect addresses relative to the domain and not just to the root (i.e site.com/oldfile.htm will redirect to www.site.com/oldfile.htm. 

Hope this helps someone, cause it was not very intuitive for me to find out how to do it since the feature was not installed by default.