Jul 08, 2010
WebMatrix, Microsoft’s end-to-end web development platform, makes building, testing, optimizing, and publishing websites for the Windows web stack quick and easy. WebMatrix is small yet powerful. It provides a solid, reliable platform for customizing...
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Feb 26, 2010
If getting your web site discovered by the masses is your goal, employing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques can be the key. However, if you want to reach a broader base of visitors who are more engaged with your content, optimizing your site...
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Jan 13, 2010
Here’s a list of on-line resources for IIS 7 users: IIS 7.5 Product Information - Describes the features and benefits of IIS 7.5 in Windows Server 2008 R2 Hosting Guidance for the Microsoft Web Platform - An in-depth series of articles with information...
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Sep 25, 2009
Own a Web development or design business with ten or fewer employees needing low cost options for software, support, training, and connections to a variety of business opportunities? If so, you should check out Microsoft WebsiteSpark ; Microsoft’s program...
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Jul 29, 2009
Want to help your site achieve higher rankings in the organic listings returned by popular search engines like Bing and Google? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the answer. SEO techniques and practices are used to help search engines understand what...
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May 27, 2009
Making PHP applications run efficiently and reliably on IIS 7 is one of our key goals. The IIS team is working with Zend to optimize the performance of PHP on IIS 7 and the results have been remarkable. In addition to performance improvements to PHP and...
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Tags: BeginnerPHPIIS 7
Feb 13, 2009
What are Windows services? In a nutshell, they are programs that run in the background performing core operating system functions usually without interaction from users. IIS 7 contains a complementary set of Windows services that work in concert to provide...
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Dec 17, 2008
Application pools, URLs or groups of URLs served by one set of worker processes, have many benefits. They set boundaries that contain applications an prevent them from affecting applications outside of the pool. So if one application fails it won't affect...
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Dec 16, 2008
Here's a simplified diagram outlining the steps IIS takes to process HTTP requests.
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Dec 15, 2008
Here's a look at the options available from the IIS 7.0 Defaults Dialog page
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Dec 15, 2008
Here's a hierarchical view of the IIS 7.0 Configuration Store:
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Aug 29, 2008
I just finished watching a short video on YouTube of a 13-year-old kid showing people how to hack into a retail Web site. It only took him a couple of minutes and one simple technique to gain access to their customers’ personal information—including...
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