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ASP.NET Blog Chat

Apr 02, 2008

Welcome to the first blog chat for ASP.NET Debugging. I hope you enjoy this and please let me know your comments on the experience. I am planning on posting a recap of the conversation (or question and answers) after we are done to the blog...

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Useful appcmd commands

Apr 01, 2008

So with IIS7, there is a new way to get data out about your web server, using the new appcmd.exe process. To start out with, the best place to start is with: Things you can do by piping appcmd commands There are a lot of useful commands listed there that...

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Stack sizes in IIS - affects ASP.NET

Mar 31, 2008

The default stack size of IIS starting with Windows Server 2003 was changed. Prior to 2003, it was set to 1 MB. This is also true of the aspnet_wp.exe process that Windows 2000 uses. In 2003 and later, it is now set to 256 KB. This can cause...

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Looking at crashes that watson has stored

Mar 24, 2008

When a crash happens in Vista and Windows Server 2008, Windows will automatically write out a dump file for the crash. It stores this file, on the machine so that you can upload it to the Windows Error Reporting (WER) site to see if this is a known issue...

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Bringing down an ASP.NET Application for updates

Mar 11, 2008

One of the really useful, and not well-known features of ASP.NET 2.0 is that you can use a special file to take your application down and show users a friendly message while you update the site. This is talked about by ScottGu here . What this will allow...

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ASP.NET Tips: Add trace statements

Feb 29, 2008

So I am going to start a new topic revolving around some useful tips for ASP.NET developers. The first one is rather simple but very effective. When you are creating your site, it is a good idea to add some tracing to your application for times...

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Cookies or other headers disappearing, can cause 'out-of-memory'

Nov 15, 2007

We just had a case recently where the customer saw their cookie disappear when they did a large form post. After looking into it further, we discovered that the problem was KB 819876 Basically we were including the POST data in the size we use to calculate...

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