Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

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. IIS is no different. The reason many miss this feature is you have to configure it the way you ...

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 7 provides a great wealth of information about the latest version of the Microsoft Web Server. ...

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 script to apply permissions to the IIS Metabase on your workstation. This is fine for ...

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 domains. The other thread is setting up multiple sites to respond on the same IP address from the ...

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 do not like Made For Adsense sites (MFAs) they have gone out of their way to force their own ...

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 of Windows 2008 and getting revved up to test some things like httpModules on my Vista ...

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. This entry will walk you through configuring IIS to process all request through the ASP.NET ...

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. Load factor too high'. I have honestly never seen this before, but it seems to be a problem for ...

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 ...

The June 2006 Netcraft Survey was just released and Microsoft's IIS is continuing to gain market share.  the survey also found one of the larger gains in the overall number of websites in the month they have ever seen, narly 4 million new web sites in the previous month.  The increase in Microsoft's web server share over the last three ...