May 28, 2009
The first podcast in my new series is now live at http://misfitgeek.com/podcast/misfit-geek-podcast/ This episode is an interview with Senior Lean PM Scott Hunter on the future of Web Forms. Hope you will listen, subscribe and enjoy ! Technorati Tags...
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Feb 20, 2009
Back in May of 2007 I posted a tips for Classic ASP developers post which has since received more than 50 comments and 85,000 views. Robert McMurray just posted a set of fabulous tutorials for Classic ASP developers. If you’re out there and...
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Tags: IIS7TroubleshootingCompatibilityIIS News ItemDevelopersASP
Jan 04, 2009
I have found that a classic ASP application that worked just fine on IIS 5.0 and IIS 6.0 may have some problems in IIS 7.0 if it is making use of the Session_OnEnd function in Global.asa. Here is the set up, I have a very simple global.asa file which...
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Dec 19, 2008
Custom Errors on IIS 7.0 and Classic ASP. In previous versions of IIS, there was a built-in error page called 500-100.asp. In IIS 7.0, this custom error page is not automatically listed. Here is a quick demo how I setup a couple ways to capture errors...
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Aug 18, 2008
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...
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Mar 22, 2008
There are two settings you should be aware of for hosting that relate to delegation of errors. 1. Delegating ASP's scriptErrorSentToBrowser setting: You should definitely turn on the ASP script errors, otherwise your customers won't see the useful errors...
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May 25, 2007
I've seen several posts asking the question: how do I turn off the "verify file exists" setting on handlers / script maps in IIS7. I must admit, this seems to not be as straightforward as it should be. Hopefully this post helps you out. The configuration...
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May 21, 2007
I was reminded the other day just how many classic ASP applications and developers there are out there! The original ASP rocks, I remember experiencing it for the first time back in 1996/97 when it first came out with IIS3, and being amazed at how...
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