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There is a lot of posts on http://forums.iis.net related to network performance. Actually, there was two today!. The problems can be different, but the common thread seems to be network performance. Windows Server 2008 (and R2) enabled a new network feature
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I've seen a few posts asking "How do I harden my IIS 7 machine". Frankly, Microsoft IIS Team has done an excellent job making a IIS Admin's life much easier and doesn't require nearly as much as IIS 5 days :) Here is a thread though that discusses some
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My team has to write a lot. We write some blog posts, sure, but we also write a lot of tutorials for various sites. Right now the http://www.asp.net site runs on Umbraco , but MSDN runs on custom internal what-not, and there's other sites as well. The
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Are you in King County/Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Washington and surrounding areas? Are you a huge nerd ? Perhaps a geek ? No? Maybe a dork , dweeb or wonk . Maybe you're in town for an SDR (Software Design Review) or VSLive ! Quite possibly you're just
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For years I’ve wanted to be able to troubleshoot website remotely by seeing the detailed error report, while ensuring that other users on the web only see the friendly non-detailed error. This is now possible with URL Rewrite 2.0. Through a simple rule,
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Microsoft's been releasing a number of right-sized LEGO pieces lately. In case you missed it, Betas have been announced for: SQL 4 Compact Edition - It has a small embedded file-based SQL Database, and a web-server called IIS Express that's compatible
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I was tinkering around with Windows Server 2008 R2 and ran across the Indexing Service search service. http://www.iislogs.com/articles/W2k8R2IndexService/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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The news of WebMatrix was just released, causing a lot of interest in the tech community. See Scott Guthrie’s blog post for details on WebMatrix, IIS Express, SQL Server Compact and the Razor syntax. The nice thing about all of these technologies
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ScottGu announced Microsoft WebMatrix today. It's a small (15 megs if you have .NET 4, 50megs if you don't) lightweight IDE for making ASP.NET or PHP websites. It has a small embedded file-based SQL Database, and a web-server called IIS Express
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For those who haven’t checked Scott Guthrie’s blog lately, something pretty exciting just showed up… an announcement of a new option for developing/testing web apps called IIS Express . Think of it as a way to run your applications with essentially the
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Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD. However, it's always nice to do something crazy so that you can better understand a system. Warning: There is no warranty implied here. I'm loading the gun and showing you where to point it. If
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Visual Studio doesn’t have IntelliSense support for URL Rewrite by default. This isn’t a show stopper since it doesn’t result in stop errors. However, it’s nice to have full IntelliSense support and to get rid of the warnings for URL Rewrite rules.
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I believe I have it … I’ve been meaning to put together the ultimate outgoing rule for hosting multiple domains under one site. I finally sat down this week and setup a few test cases, and created one rule to rule them all. In Part I of this
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I was setting up a new machine for presentations and I was getting ready to install Visual Studio 2010 Express and figured I'd go see if the Web Platform Installer (we call it "Web-P-I") had the new versions of VS2010 ready to go. If
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URL Rewrite is a powerful URL rewriting tool available for IIS7 and newer. Your rewriting options are almost unlimited, giving you the ability to optimize URLs for search engine optimization (SEO), support multiple domain names on a single site,
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