Jun 23, 2009
I received an interesting email today where a fellow was trying to make sure that all browsers could successfully download his company's MSI installer. He had found a blog post that I wrote SIX YEARS AGO on the Content-Disposition header and some trouble...
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Tags: IISASP.NETMusings
Mar 18, 2009
It's so fun to help "announce" things, especially things that are a long time coming and that a lot of people worked on to make things "just work." (You can follow them on Twitter @mswebplatform .) This is one of those fantastic things...
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Tags: IISASP.NETToolsMixDasBlogOpen Source
Feb 09, 2009
In an ongoing series on different reasons that I suck, I wanted to share another interesting quasi-debugging story about this public ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) service I'm trying to help get live at a large company. I'd mentioned how I had some trouble...
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Tags: IISASP.NETWeb Services
Jan 29, 2009
A buddy of mine and I had a nice slap in the face yesterday. I was helping him deploy an ADO.NET Data Service to a large company's staging server and we were seeing REALLY odd behavior. We'd request something like /myservice.svc and get a 404. But...
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Tags: IISASP.NETASP.NET MVCLearning .NETWeb ServicesProgrammingASP.NET Dynamic Data
Nov 24, 2008
Remind me to tell you some time why the IIS team is so evil clever. It' cool to see the first steps of a master plan to make things awesome start to come to fruition. I've said over and over that IIS7 is rocking sweet and once you start using it...
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Tags: IISASP.NETASP.NET MVC
Nov 12, 2008
I'm not yet clear what I did, but I'm blogging it so it can be found if someone else has this issue. For whatever reason, last week both of my Vista 64-bit machines suddenly stopped being able to start IIS (Internet Information Server). The service just...
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Tags: IISTools
Oct 10, 2008
Last year I noticed that there were 11 ways to get to my blog. Literally 11 different URLs and it wasn't helping me my ranking in the search engines. I wrote about this in detail and how I used ISAPI_Rewrite to fix it up . Fast forward to this year and...
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Tags: IISASP.NETASP.NET MVC
Oct 03, 2008
There's a renewed focus, in my opinion, to make things easier to find around The Big Blue Monster . I'm working with a bunch of folks on a more official version of http://www.smallestdotnet and some changes around making the .NET Framework easier to find...
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Tags: IISASP.NETTools