I know I have asked a similar question in the past, but what I would like to know now is, without any bounds on what it can do, what would you like to see from a troubleshooting tool for .NET? I am thinking about doing something radically different and...

I have to give kudo's to the Microsoft IIS team for updating URLScan to help block automated sql injection attacks. Especially to Wade Hilmo and Nazim Lala . They have been very responsive when it came to involving the community (Thanks guys for the w3c...

Yesterday I was having a conversation with Anil Ruia who happens to be the ARR (Application Request Routing) developer and based on customer feedback we discussed the idea of using ARR in the context of Remote Management in IIS which solves a question that several people asked me before and thought it would be fun to try it out. Basically the question that I got asked was " Can I have a single entry-point exposed for Remote Management? ", or in other words " Can I provide users with remote administration giving them a single server name like management.myhostingcompany.com, instead of having to give them the specific machine name where their site lives? ". So far the answer to these questions was "not easily", however with the use of ARR and...

Have you checked out the MSDN site for ASP.NET lately?  It is full of useful information.  You can find it at the ASP.NET Developer Center .  My favorite things to check out are the “How Do I” videos.  They can be really helpful and...

About 2 months ago we released the beta for UrlScan v3.0 to address customer concerns with automated SQL injection attacks and we have been busy since refining it with the help of our customers, community and MVPs. You can download the bits at the links...

So I wanted to post a little bit about my adventure with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 .  I have a virtual machine that has Visual Studio 2008 installed on it.  But it only has about 2 GB of free hard drive space on it.  So when I went to install...

For the past month its been pretty quiet in my blog since I have been a little bit busy with the best thing that has happened in my life, my first baby Sofia was borne and today we are celebrating her first month. Days have been incredibly full of love, fun and joy (but certainly not of sleep). Now nights are much better, sleeping for a few hours now and back at work with lots of enthusiasm for the upcoming work in IIS and the incredibly exiting times at the team. So now by blog should show a bit more activity moving forward. Here is a picture of my first baby, named Sofia celebrating her first month of life.

A few questions come up in the forums @ http://forums.iis.net about people moving Classic ASP applications that use CDONTS. CDONTS was introduced in NT4 and was widely popular. With the success of ASP applications 'back in the day', many used CDONTS to...

We have had a number of customers run into problems when trying to store their ASP.NET Content on a remote machine.  Whether that is just a UNC path from the web server or a DFS share.  So I wanted to talk about the issues and how to resolve...

Tim Heuer has a great post where he talks about NBCOlympics.com and how things are going.  There is a great video talking about this and Silverlight , Eric Schmidt from Microsoft was interviewed about it..  Feel free to check out the video here...

Here is another issue that a customer had that I thought would be helpful to others. Problem The customer said they are getting Exception type: System.IndexOutOfRangeException every minute or so when accessing their web site.  The error looks like...

So a while ago I posted about how to fix the Validation of viewstate MAC failed error .  There is some really exciting news that is coming with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1.  One of the improvements...

The next service pack is finally available.  If you are using .NET 3.5, or want to use any of the new features that we have been talking about being added in this service pack, I’d strongly recommend you upgrade to this.  You can download it...

My blog was down a few days ago. I've had downtime in the minutes over the last few years, but as far as I recall, it's never been down for any significant time. Keyvan noticed that a bunch of us were attacked. Phil Haack was also, ahem, haacked. I host...

I've written a couple times about what configuration changes cause AppDomain recycles. Most recently how the ASP.NET tab causes a server-wide AppDomain recycle , and previously about changes in ASP.NET 2.0 . Here I'm going to cover things that, when done...