Sep 12, 2008
Knowing when to restart IIS to pick up various types of changes to your application has traditionally been a challenge. IIS and ASP.NET are both stateful software systems, which heavily rely on cached state that is loaded once to provide high performance...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, IIS, troubleshooting, development, AppCmd
Aug 16, 2007
This article, the first in the IIS7 .NET Developer series, focuses on getting started with developing IIS7 web server features based on the .NET Framework. Learn about the options you have for your development environment, how to set up your Visual Studio...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, development, Integrated pipeline, IIS News Item
May 24, 2007
In a web application, it’s often necessary to redirect clients requesting one url to another url. A while ago, I wrote a module to do basic http redirection for an ASP.NET application. The HttpRedirection module allows you to configure regular expression...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, development, IIS News Item, Goodies
Jan 21, 2007
Do you hate bland directory listing pages that most web servers have these days? Many of us do on the IIS team, and so over the past several years we've built a few directory listing modules to spice up IIS directory listings. I figured I should put an...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, modules, development, Goodies
Jan 11, 2007
Do you like file icons? I do. They make it pretty easy to visually digest file lists in Windows, when you open a file system folder with explorer. Displaying icons in your web application can also be pretty compelling (for example, to spruce up that boring...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, development, IIS News Item
Dec 28, 2006
A number of people have been reporting problems when trying to debug their ASP.NET applications on Windows Vista with Visual Studio 2005 F5 debugging support. There are a handful of posts about trying to get this to work in various ways ... most of which...
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Filed under: IIS7, ASP.NET, development, Debugging, IIS News Item
Oct 22, 2006
I feel like I got off on the wrong foot in my blog coverage of IIS extensibility … I started spending a lot of time talking about building IIS7 server modules with the native API, but did not mention anything about the new .NET extensibility. First...
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