Web Developer Tips : IIS

Tip #94: Did you know … How to improve the performance of PHP application on Windows?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:46:17 GMT

Today the Microsoft IIS team has released the beta of the Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP . The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator , that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on the Windows operating systems...(read more)

Tip #73: Did you know... about IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:40:33 GMT

IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – is a free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more search engine-friendly...(read more)

Tip #71: Did you know... there are several new configuration settings available in FastCGI Extension 1.5 Beta

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:54:06 GMT

Following are the new configuration settings available in FastCGI 1.5 Extension Beta: MonitorChangesTo - This property specifies path to a file, changes to which will trigger a recycle of FastCGI executables running for this FastCGI process pool. If value...(read more)

Tip #70: Did you know… how to install win7 RC IIS through command script?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:34:32 GMT

Windows 7 RC’s IIS included ftp 7.5 feature. Installing it from command line is a little bit different than the vista IIS7 command line. It is as following: start /w pkgmgr /l:log.etw /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS...(read more)

Tip #43: Did you know... Way you register your IHttpModule depends on the pipeline in which an AppPool for your module will run?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:57:00 GMT

To get your custom IHttpModule up and running you need three simple things: Source code Compiled and GAC’ed DLL Registration with IIS config system Suppose, you have a simple module that raises an event with HttpContext as an argument before authentication...(read more)

Tip #42: Did you know... ConfigurationEditor allows you to generate C#, JavaScript or AppCmd script to update configuration?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:58:32 GMT

If you want to write a script to add new or update existing configuration, no matter what configuration file it belongs to (e.g. administration.config, applicationHost.config or website or application specific web.config), you can install Configuration...(read more)

Tip #41: Did you know... establishing a remote connection to a IIS server with self-issued certificate will require a certificate validation delegate?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:07:16 GMT

Either through WMSvc or through your own script, whenever you try to establish a connection with a remote server, which doesn’t provide a trusted certificate you need to provide a delegate for this certificate validation check to validate untrusted...(read more)

Tip #38: Did you know... How to use Failed Request Tracing to trace Rewrite Rules?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:54:50 GMT

IIS7.0 Failed Request Tracing (FRT) is a powerful troubleshooting tool for request-processing failures. More details regarding FRT and how to enable it can be be found here . Once the failed request tracing is enabled for your site, do the following to...(read more)

Tip #36: Did you know... How to manage pilot or beta program for your site using Application Request Routing in IIS7.0?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:11:33 GMT

Won't it be cool if you can target and route appropriate users of your site to your pilot/beta/new looking site based on user's profile. This may help you in managing select users who have previously signed for pilot program and redirect them to new looking...(read more)

Tip #31: Did you know... How to have user friendly URL using IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite module?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:53:09 GMT

It's always good to have friendly URL so that people visiting your site find it easier to remember. Asking your user to remember http://www.contoso.com/article.aspx?id=342&title=URL-Rewrite-Walkthrough for URL Rewrite walkthrough is not the nicest...(read more)

Tip#27: Did you know... The Microsoft Web Platform Installer RC release supports Windows XP as well as Windows Server 2003

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:06:36 GMT

Microsoft's Web Platform Installer has been a cool and simple tool that install's Microsoft's entire Web Platform including IIS 7.0, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and .NET framework. The user interface gives...(read more)

Tip#25: Did you know... You can have canonical URLs and Redirects with IIS 7.0

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:57:50 GMT

Canonical URLs help you to make your links Search Engine Optimized (SEO). For human it is easy to understand that http://www.live.com is same as http://live.com . But many search engines will not make this assumption and treat them as two separate entries...(read more)

Tip #20: Did you know… How to change WAP to use an IIS Web server?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:39:09 GMT

Sometimes while developing WAP you might want to switch to IIS Web server instead of the Visual Studio Development Server provided by VWD. Here is how you do it: 1. Go to the Properties page of WAP by clicking on properties under WAP in Solution Explorer...(read more)

Tip #17: Did you know... How to remote debug WAPs that are using IIS?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:05:00 GMT

If you want to work on an web application project using IIS that is sitting on another server, you can use the remote debugger and the web property pages in Visual Studio 2008 SP1. First, open your web application project on the server (e.g. \\server...(read more)

Tip #12: Did you know..How to create an IIS Virtual Directory from within Visual Web Developer?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:51:23 GMT

Here are the steps on how to create a Local IIS Virtual Directory.To start with you should have IIS installed on your box. Step1: Go to File Menu->Click on New Web Site. Step2: Click on the Browse button in the New Web Site dialog. This will bring...(read more)