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It’s Pronounced ‘Mo-sjun’
Today I am very excited to announce Moesion , Tellago Studios latest product. Not only did I work on this product with a great team loaded with fellow Microsoft MVPs, I have wanted this product since I placed my very first server online well over a decade Read More...
Enable Extensionless Urls in IIS 7.0 & 7.5
The cool thing to do these days is extensionless Urls, meaning there is no .aspx, .html, etc. Instead you just reference the resource by the name, which makes things like Restful interfaces and SEO better. For security reasons IIS disables this feature Read More...
Setting Up Compression with IIS
One of the most commonly missed features of setting up a web server is configuring compression. All modern Browsers support both GZip and Deflate compression for content. All commercially viable web servers support GZip and Deflate compression types. Read More...
Professional IIS 7
I recently got a copy of my friend Scott Forsyth's IIS 7 book from WROX. The book has 6 authors and covers just about everything you need to know about IIS 7. I have examined a few IIS 7 books and have played a little with IIS 7 so far. Professional IIS Read More...
How to Deal with the 'Failed to Access IIS Metabase' Error
You may get this the first time you try to execute an ASP.NET site on a Windows XP installation of IIS 5.1 The error will point you to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article to solve the Failed to Access IIS Metabase error that instructs you to use a Metaacl.vbs Read More...
Setting up Host Headers in IIS 6.0
The topic recently came up where I was asked how I set up multiple sites on the same port and IP address in IIS. There are two separate threads on how this works, first is setting the web site to respond to the primary domain and the www alias or more Read More...
Enforcing a Custom 404 Page in ASP.NET
Yesterday Google started hijacking 404 status codes through the Google Toolbar from unknowing Web sites to show pages with ads. TechCrunch even has a poll asking if you think the Google hijacking is a good thing or not. While Google publicly states they Read More...
IIS 7 is Finally Finished
Earlier this week IIS 7 was approved as a finished product by the team at Microsoft . This is great news. I have not let myself get too involved with IIS 7 up to this point, but that will be changing this week. I have been working on some virtual images Read More...
Configure IIS for Wildcard Extensions in ASP.NET
I get asked this question a lot as I go around demonstrating the benefits of using URL Rewriting in ASP.NET, how can I process wildcard extensions and just directories in IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003 and ASP.NET? It is very simple, but not obvious at all. Read More...
Hashtable insert failed. Load factor too high.
I recently deployed an application to a production web farm for a client and everything has been relatively smooth, until this morning. As the work day began a strange exception began being tossed on just about every request, 'Hashtable insert failed. Read More...
Reinstalling IIS on Windows XP SP2
This evening I decided to suck it up and fix an ongoing problem with IIS. Basically some of the controls were not working correctly, the menu control and Infragistics controls mostly. It has been this way for about 2 months, but I have just lived with it because I am so busy with projects lately. But today I decied to fix this issue because I know there is something wrong at the core and as it turns out it is pretty easy to fix by removing IIS and re-installing it. Read More...
IIS continues to gain Web Server Market Share
The June 2006 Netcraft Survey was just released and Microsoft's IIS is continuing to gain market share. Read More...
New IIS Web Site!
Microsoft finally has created a resource web site for IIS. It looks real promising, with forums, downloads, videos and more. Read More...
Error processing resource - What in the world does this mean?
The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource 'http://localhost/mynewsite/'. Line 1, Posi... <%@ Page Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/default.master" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_De... Read More...
301 Redirect ASP.NET
This will have to be part one of two entries. I am about to start migrating a few rather large DotNetNuke sites to ASP.NET 2.0 and I want to make sure that any links people have to the pages are handled corrrectly. The best way I think to do this is the set up a 310 Redirect handler Read More...
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