Monday I spoke at the Microsoft MSDN Live event in Oslo. MSDN Live is a quarterly event, and this one was a huge success. About 600 attendees got a chance to learn more about web development using AJAX, IIS 7, and how to make their applications secure. I did a presentation on IIS 7 which went really well. I got some good feedback after the presentation. The pictures are taken from the stage at the end of the presentation.

The scenario I used trough out the demo was that I had some pictures I wanted to share online. I wanted to have some control over who could download the pictures. So I showed how to protect any file type using ASP.NET forms authentication and the ASP.NET integrated pipeline. I also showed how to create a managed module drawing a copyright message on all .jpg files served by IIS. In the end of the demo I replaced the directory browsing module with a new one that draws a nice looking gallery instead of the boring file list. To make things more interesting the start page was built using the Virtual Earth SDK, and each "folder" was laid out on the map.

If you want to learn how to use Virtual Earth just check out their interactive SDK.
If you just want the directory browsing module you can download it of the IIS.NET download center.
If you want the entire demo, download it here.
If you want the slides, click this link.

Hope you enjoyed the presentation! Three more cities left, starting with Trondheim tomorrow!