Microsoft Support Team's IIS Blog : ASP.NET

A Tale of Two Developers and Visual Studio Sites and Apps

WebTopics — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:40:00 GMT

We've encountered several scenarios in which customers have multiple developers working on a single web application in Visual Studio. In such cases, it's not uncommon for each developer to be working on a portion of the application. There isn't any problem...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC: What is it and should I use it?

WebTopics — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:49:00 GMT

In March of this year, we released ASP.NET MVC. Since then, many ASP.NET developers have been perplexed about MVC. Many developers aren't quite sure what MVC is and what it means for ASP.NET developers. Many more developers have some level of understanding...(read more)

“Parser Error Message: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.” when .net page has debug=”true”

WebTopics — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:37:00 GMT

Recently, I came across an issue where the customer faced an FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) related error on the .aspx pages which had debug=”true”. His ASP.net application was hosted on IIS7 running on Windows Server 2008 SP2. And, he...(read more)

How to Add a Locked Header Row to an ASP.NET GridView Control

WebTopics — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:22:00 GMT

The GridView control is often used to display tabular data, much like an Excel spreadsheet. However, unlike Excel, the GridView control doesn't have any automatic way of locking the header row so that it doesn't scroll out of view. Check out this example...(read more)

Fix: UpdatePanel Async Postbacks Slow in Internet Explorer

WebTopics — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:47:00 GMT

We've seen a few issues recently where customers were experiencing very slow async postbacks via an UpdatePanel, but only in Internet Explorer. Other browsers worked fine. (When I say "very slow," I mean in the neighborhood of 30 seconds!) The cause for...(read more)

Troubleshooting System.OutOfMemoryExceptions in ASP.NET

Useful IIS/ASP.NET Information provided by Microsoft Support Teams — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:14:00 GMT

When the .NET Framework was first released, many developers believed the introduction of the garbage collector meant never having to worry about memory management ever again. In fact, while the garbage collector is efficient in managing memory in a managed...(read more)

How To View what ASP.NET Requests are doing at runtime on IIS 6.0

Useful IIS/ASP.NET Information provided by Microsoft Support Teams — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:29:00 GMT

This is just a quick blog to mention a forgotten tool. The managed stack explorer can be run on an IIS 6.0 Server running ASP.NET 2.0 to investigate the managed call stacks. Looking at the call stacks when an ASP.NET application is not responding may...(read more)

Caution while xcopying IIS 7.0 config files

Useful IIS/ASP.NET Information provided by Microsoft Support Teams — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:07:00 GMT

Metabase.xml is the central store where IIS 6.0 stores most of its configuration information. Its a plain text file and stores all the information in a simple XML format. The XML format naturally raised a notion of being able to XCOPY the config file...(read more)

WebBaseEvent.Raise method fails in Application_Start event with a NullReferenceException on IIS 7.0

Useful IIS/ASP.NET Information provided by Microsoft Support Teams — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:25:33 GMT

If you implement custom health monitoring events in ASP.NET chances are that you should have worked with WebBaseEvent or WebErrorEvent classes and used the WebBaseEvent.Raise() method to fire those events. Recently an interesting issue related to this...(read more)