I have been getting good response for my post Integrating blog engine into existing site. One of the guy asked me this question on how can we do the opposite? He had a BlogEngine as parent site and needed some other site to be child of BlogEngine. So He posted on that and this is the answer he got for his question. You need to make this change in your web.config file. If you want to have a website as child of BlogEngine <location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false"> <system.web> ..... existing content ..... </system.web> </location> <location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false"> ...

Apple’s latest operating system update, Mac OSX Snow Leopard, should be ready to roll on August 28, it’ll become the de facto competitor to Microsoft Windows 7 come October. Mac OSX Snow Leopard: Exposé Interactivity: The feature that shows all windows together is no longer a simple means for switching among them. It will be possible to drag content from one previewed window to the other. Exposé will also work for individual applications by clicking and holding their icons in the dock. As a workaround for the miniscule preview windows in the dock, these improvements aren’t...

As anticipated, Microsoft used CES to launch the beta of Windows 7, posting the preview of the company’s next operating system to its developer download services. Microsoft made it clear that the beta will be available for a “limited time,” and said it will cap the beta after the first 2.5 million downloads. IT professionals and developers who subscribe to the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) or TechNet services, however, get a jump on the public at large; they can grab the beta right away. The beta, which Microsoft called “feature complete,” requires a PC with...

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