IIS Team Blogs Tagged with "troubleshooting, ASP.NET" (RSS)

Error connecting to SQL Server from Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2 with ASP.NET

Just ran into this and thought I’d share.  If you are trying to connect to a "user instance" of SQL Server from your Web application running on Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 and you’re getting a message that looks like this: Failed to generate a user...

Workaround for using IIS 7 url authorization with ASP.NET roles

When using the IIS 7.0 Integrated pipeline, you gain access to a ton of cool scenarios where IIS and ASP.NET features work together to provide value for your application – regardless of the application content. Most of these features involve using...

Why IIS7? Top 12 cool features…

Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has.  I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos.  And with each new...

When to restart IIS when making changes to your application

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...

Tip / Trick: how to turn off "verify file exists" in IIS7

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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