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Fix problems with Visual Studio F5 debugging of ASP.NET applications on IIS7 Vista

Friday, December 29, 2006
ASP.NET Debugging development IIS News Item IIS7
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A number of people have been reporting problems when trying to debug their ASP.NET applications on Windows Vista with Visual Studio 2005 F5 debugging support. There are a handful of posts about trying to get this to work in various ways ... most of which are missing key information needed to *really* get it to work.

Hopefully this will be the *definitive* guide to enabling F5 debugging on Vista / IIS7.

Read the details at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2006/12/28/Fix-problems-with-Visual-Studio-F5-debugging-of-ASP.NET-applications-on-IIS7-Vista.aspx.
IIS7 modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI: Managing request state in your module

Tuesday, December 26, 2006
development IIS6 IIS7 ISAPI modules
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For post #4 in the IIS7 Modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI series, let's take a look at another common pattern in IIS module development - storing request-specific state inside your module.

Read more at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2006/12/25/Managing-request-state-in-your-IIS7-module.aspx.
The self-hosted journey is finally over

Friday, December 22, 2006
IIS7 Other
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I have finally finished moving my blog over to a self-hosted IIS7 server, where I can actually demo the technology I am writing about. Come check out the new home of www.mvolo.com!

More of this post at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2006/12/19/The-self_2D00_hosted-journey-is-finally-coming-to-an-end.aspx.
Before the flight: Native Output Cache, PHP and FastCGI, and other stuff

Friday, November 17, 2006
FastCGI IIS7 PHP Vista
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Before hopping on the plane and starting my Thanksgiving vacation, here are some highlights about the new IIS7 Native Output Cache, PHP, FastCGI, and other stuff ...

Read more on http://mvolo.com/2006/11/17/while-you-were-out-.aspx.
Stopping hot-linking leeches with IIS and ASP.NET

Friday, November 10, 2006
ASP.NET development IIS
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Many web sites suffer from others directly linking to their image, video and other content. This practice is called often called leeching, hot-linking, or inline-linking and causes wasted bandwidth and increased server load to the victim web site.

Last weekend, I wrote a little ASP.NET module that prevents hot linking. It can be used on IIS5 (Windows 2000/XP), IIS6 (Windows Server 2003), and IIS7 (Windows Vista / Longhorn Server).

It also was a great excuse to talk about IIS and ASP.NET integration history :)

Read more on http://mvolo.com/2006/11/10/stopping-hotlinking-with-iis-and-aspnet.aspx.
Free no-hassle blogging with Quick Blog

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Misc
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In my first ever blog post, I mentioned that my dream was to eventually self-host my blog on home IIS7 server, running latest Windows “Longhorn” builds with many cool features based on modules I write while working on IIS7 at my job on the IIS team.

My dream has been sitting idle in my basement for a few weeks now, running on a server I put together from spare parts lying around the house ... At this point the only thing its waiting for is for the 60 day domain hold to expire, so I can transfer my domain name to a dynamic DNS host that will point to the server’s address.

In the past month that the blog has been up, I have thoroughly enjoyed GoDaddy’s free Quick Blog feature, which has allowed me to have a fully featured blog up and running minutes after I paid for the www.mvolo.com domain name.

So, before I move at the end of this month, I wanted to share my experience with Quick Blog. ...

Read more on http://mvolo.com/2006/11/07/free-nohassle-blogging-with-bill-browns-quick-blog.aspx.
Try out the IIS FastCGI techical preview

Friday, November 3, 2006
FastCGI IIS6 PHP
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As you know, we released the FastCGI technical preview this week, aimed at providing a fast and stable platform for running FastCGI applications like PHP. Its been very popular, with more downloads then we have expected for the first week.

I wanted to say thank you to everyone trying this out ...

Read more on http://mvolo.com/2006/11/03/try-out-the-iis-fastcgi-techical-preview.aspx.
IIS7 modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI: Memory Management

Thursday, November 2, 2006
development IIS6 ISAPI
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For post #3 in the IIS7 Modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI series, let’s look at one of the biggest trouble areas that bite ISAPI developers - managing memory.

Read more on http://mvolo.com/2006/11/01/iis7-modules-vs-iis6-isapi-memory-management.aspx.
The PHP / FastCGI Technical Preview is Live!

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
FastCGI performance PHP
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After several weeks of silence on this topic, and lots of hard work, we just released the FastCGI Techical Preview for IIS 5.x / IIS 6 / IIS7!

Read more on my blog here: http://mvolo.com/2006/10/31/the-php--fastcgi-technical-preview-is-live.aspx.
Extending your IIS 7 server with .NET

Monday, October 23, 2006
ASP.NET development IIS7 Integrated pipeline
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I feel like I got off on the wrong foot in my blog coverage of IIS extensibility … I started spending a lot of time talking about building IIS7 server modules with the native API, but did not mention anything about the new .NET extensibility.

First things first – IIS7, for the first time in the history of the server, provides first class support for extending the server with .NET.

Read more at http://mvolo.com/2006/10/22/why-write-native-code-extending-your-iis-7-server-with-net.aspx.
Where did my IIS7 server go? Troubleshooting "service unavailable" errors

Thursday, October 19, 2006
IIS7 troubleshooting
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In the previous post, I covered the “server not found” error that is a common and frustrating problem that may occur for a number of reasons after a configuration change, or when deploying a new server machine. Another common “what the hell just happened” error is the plain 503 “service available” error. In this post we'll look at why this error happens, and how to fix it.

Read about it here - http://mvolo.com/2006/10/19/where-did-my-iis7-server-go-troubleshooting-service-unavailable-errors.aspx.
Where did my IIS7 server go? Troubleshooting guide for those pesky "server not found" and "service unavailable" errors

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
IIS7 troubleshooting
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Sometimes, after provisioning a new machine, or making some configuration changes, you may find that your IIS server has gone completely missing without so much as leaving you a note. As you desperately try to bring up your site, your browser connection times out with “server not found” or, slightly better, you get the plain 503 “service unavailable” error.

In these cases, a lot of the instrumentation you typically have at your disposal with application failures is not available to help you fix the problem. But, not to worry - the solution is usually only a few steps away. The step-by-step instructions below should help you figure out what’s wrong in minutes.

Read more here - http://mvolo.com/2006/10/16/where-did-my-iis7-server-go-troubleshooting-guide-for-those-pesky-server-not-found-and-service-unavailable-errors.aspx.
IIS7 modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI (Reason #9): Intuitive object model

Friday, October 13, 2006
IIS IIS7 ISAPI modules
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This is the second post in the series on why IIS7 module development beats the pants off the ISAPI development for the previous version of IIS. Today's topic - the rich class-based IIS7 object model.

Read more on http://mvolo.com/2006/10/12/iis7-modules-vs-iis6-isapi-reason-9-intuitive-object-model.aspx.
IIS7 modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI (Reason #10): C++ Class-based encapsulation model

Sunday, October 8, 2006
IIS IIS7 ISAPI modules
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The first post in the IIS6 ISAPI vs IIS7 module development series. This one is about the basics, and why they make such a big difference.

Read more here - http://mvolo.com/2006/10/07/why-iis7-module-is-better-then-iis6-isapi---reason-10-c-classbased-encapsulated-model-vs-cstyle-static-functions.aspx.
10 reasons why server development is better with IIS7

Sunday, October 8, 2006
IIS IIS7 ISAPI modules
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As you already know (if you don’t, go read about it right now), IIS7 core server has been completely re-engineered to provide a brand new extensibility model on top of which all of the server features are built. This allows anyone to remove/replace all existing server features, or add new ones - by using either the new native APIs, or the managed ASP.NET APIs.

Over the past two years, we did a bunch of work to make sure the new native APIs are easy to use and help write more robust server code. But, it is hard to appreciate all the benefits until you actually compare writing an IIS7 module with writing an IIS6 ISAPI Extension – I am often amazed at how nice some of the little improvements can make your life.

Read more here - http://mvolo.com/2006/10/07/10-reasons-why-developing-server-components-with-the-iis7-native-api-is-10-times-much-better-then-iis60-isapi.aspx.
Making PHP rock on Windows/IIS

Sunday, October 8, 2006
FastCGI IIS IIS7 PHP
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Right as I was about to go home, one of our developers comes in to tell me some good news about our new IIS7 FastCGI module. So, I figure I would shed some light on our recent work to improve hosting PHP (yes, you read right, PHP) applications on Windows/IIS.

Read more here - http://mvolo.com/2006/09/29/making-php-rock-on-windowsiis.aspx.
My first blog post

Sunday, October 8, 2006
ASP.NET IIS IIS7
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I finally created a blog. Its about IIS7, ASP.NET, development, security, and other web server infrastructure topics that I work on here at the IIS team. You can check it out at www.mvolo.com - I will also cross post here for a while at least.