Click here to Skip to main content

Submit your article

IIS 5.1

IIS5.1

Great Reads

Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

by Max Paulousky

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

Using .NET and PHP to create an extensible WebDAV server

by Bill Seddon

Shows how a .NET based WebDAV server can be created by combining two Open Source projects. The example implementation returns files from a file system, but you can extend it to return resources from any repository.

How to Create SSL Secure Server (HTTPS) in Local IIS?

by Bikash Prakash Dash

This tip is helpful to create and manage self-signed SSL certificate for local IIS.

Salient.Web.Security.AccessControlModule

by Sky Sanders

AccessControlModule can impart a greater consistency and usability upon the default behaviour of FormsAuthentication and allow any client script code to leverage FormsAuthentication in a straight forward manner.

Latest Articles

Using HttpModules with URL Re-writing to Handle Fake Directory Requests

by Terrence Sheflin

Explains how to use HttpModule in conjunction with IIS to handle requests to fake directories

How to Validate ASP.NET and MVC Web Forms Using Business Rules Engine

by Misha1964

Learn how to validate complex web forms using business rules engine

Deploy MVC2 Application in IIS 5.1 (Windows XP)

by Sadeque Sharif

How to deploy MVC2 application at IIS 5.1 (Windows XP)

Enhancing Church Worship With The Cloud

by Stan Bice

Imagine connecting church worship attenders with real-time content.

All Articles

IIS 5.1

how to solve error "Server does not support debugging of ASP.NET or ATL server applications" ?

26 Jun 2010 by #realJSOP

Did you make sure the server has the correct mime types specified?

The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.

24 Jun 2011 by #realJSOP

Put this in your web.config:Error 500 is too generic to diagnose.Once you do that, it will give you the precise locatoion that is causing your site to misbehave, and from that point, you can probably identify the problem and fix...

SQL-Server-2008

Website made in Web Developer 2008 is not running on IIS 5.1

31 Jul 2011 by #realJSOP

Here's an idea - why don't you install .Net 3.5 and see if that fixes it... However, that sounds more like a SQLServer error to me.Did you upload the database specified in the connection string to the server?BTW, wouldn't it be better to create a web service and use that instead of using...

How to call exe file in IIS ?

24 Feb 2012 by #realJSOP

Its an IIS security thing. The web applicaion on IIS has to be configured to be able to run executables. If that's not possible, try it this way:0) Make your web site write a file that indicates the process needs to be run.1) Write a Windows ervice that runs on the web server that...

Easy Guestbook with ASP

11 Jul 2004 by aa2max

Easy Guestbook with ASP and MS Access

News System with ASP

5 Aug 2004 by aa2max

Simple News System using ASP and MS Access

Simple Image Gallery with ASP

29 Oct 2004 by aa2max

A simple image gallery with captions using ASP.

Parent/Child (Hierarchical) Relational Treeview User Control Development in ASP.NET

14 Aug 2012 by Abdul Quader Mamun

Custom TreeView web user control for parent child relatioinal data upto infinity

open application pool in iis 5.1

19 Aug 2013 by abhishek_singh

HI,You can try following steps:1. type inetmgr on run command 2. Expend tree view from left pannel3. right click on application pool showing on panel4. click on Add Application Pool5. Just give the name of application pool and select framework version which you want.6. Click on ok...

open application pool in iis 5.1

19 Aug 2013 by abhishek_singh

which operating system you are using? and confirm that which version of IIS is installed in your system ?

open application pool in iis 5.1

20 Aug 2013 by abhishek_singh

sorry you can't open application pool in IIS 5.1, this service can available only on IIS 6.0 or above.

ASP.NET Reports Starter Kits Porting from Windows to Linux (Race to Linux)

30 Sep 2005 by Abi Bellamkonda

ASP.NET Reports Starter Kit Porting from Windows to Linux using Mainsoft's Grasshopper

SQL-server-2000

how to hosting the Website?

25 Oct 2015 by AdamASPGeek

The easiest way is 1. Register your domain name2. Find hosting provider such as asphostportal.com, hostforlife.eu, Vidahost, DASP3. Then upload all your files to your root folder. Then, you will be able to browse your site.

Building Blocks For ASP.NET Applicationa: Part 1

30 Jan 2006 by Agha.net

This is a series of articles providing Building Blocks for any ASP.NET application.

SQL-server-2000

Hosting WCF Rest in IIS 5.1

18 Sep 2012 by aidin Tajadod

Hi Guys,I have a WCF rest which is working fine in my development machine (Visual Studio web server). But I can not make it work in my QA server which is windows XP with IIS 5.1 (SSL enabled). ("Bad Request" or "not found")If I go to the IIS and set the mapping ".*" to "aspnet_isapi.dll",...

Hosting WCF Rest in IIS 5.1

19 Sep 2012 by aidin Tajadod

OK, I think there is no way to do that! But at least I have found why I could not make a call directly to the .svc/... for the other peaoples who may have the same problem:I had my service in a folder (WCF) inside my asp.net site which is a normal directory and not a "virtual directory"....

How to get the path from another computer 2 when web application is published on computer 1

26 Dec 2017 by Akshada Sane

I Publish(Deployed) My website on IIS Everything is working Fine But i am generating Word using Find And Replace (Mail Merge) Method, From Visual Studio its Working But When i open project from another computer using http://192.168.0.101/Electro/SalesInvoice.aspx it's Not Generating Word...

Power yourself against XSS

7 Aug 2007 by albert arul prakash

XSS gaining popularity to hack into websites. This article describes how to power yourself against XSS

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

Website made in Web Developer 2008 is not running on IIS 5.1

31 Jul 2011 by alchemist_NKJ

Thanks Everyone,Finally it is running on the IIsFor that above problem i changed the user instance in machine.config file to false then that problem was solved but then iis was showing a new error login failed for MACHINENAME\ASPNET:---For that i created a user account in SQL server...

Website made in Web Developer 2008 is not running on IIS 5.1

31 Jul 2011 by alchemist_NKJ

Hello there,I made a website using Web developer and SQL Express 2k8, later i Switched to SQL Enterprise edition ten i just made a littele change in machine.config file and website was runing smoothly but wen i tried to run the website using IIS 5.1 it gives me following errorSQLExpress...

table in asp.net page is not being displayed correctly

13 Apr 2011 by Amd_eagle

I have developed a webpage which contain a dynamically changable table the code i used i shown below :string dynTable = ""; dynTable = ""; for (int TableRows = 0; TableRows

Use Adobe's Indesign COM in asp.net application with automatic publication flow

9 Apr 2007 by Amit M patel

This Article represents that .net based application which is used in web based publication work flow with the use of XML and indesign file

IIS 5.0 query string limit in asp.net

25 Jul 2011 by amitkarnik2211

Tried to work on this but I think Practically not Possible

Installing IIS for Windows Vista

15 Dec 2007 by ammar_shaker

Installing IIS for Windows Vista

IIS 5.1 showing error - "There are no items to show in this view"

2 May 2012 by amoljoge

Hi there,I am using IIS 5.1 and I am local admin on my laptop. The IIS was working fine when I checked and also created few virtual directories but all of a sudden, I started getting this "There are no items to show in this view" error message. can you please advise, what might cause...

Logging System for .NET SOA Applications

30 Dec 2007 by Anders Revsgaard

No matter how well you design your system, a distributed SOA application is always complex. When a SOA application fails, it can be difficult to track down the cause of the problem and the web service where the error occurred. To handle this difficulty, you need a logging system such as UptoLog.

SQL-Server-2005

Web Application State

15 Apr 2008 by Andrew Golik

This article explains how to maintain the web application state.

Rapid Web Application Development

27 Sep 2005 by Andrew M Baldwin

An article about the Multiformity Open Source project.

SQL-server-2000

Image not displayed

5 Dec 2010 by Ankur^\m/

The first thing I would do is check the image source on the browser on which the image is not displayed.Check if the link is correct. You may try opening the link in another tab/page and see if it opens there.

Architectural Best Practices - Automating SQL Parameter Creation and Assignment

18 Jul 2007 by Anton Pious Alfred

Most systems that use Stored Procedures make use of SQL parameters to send and receive information from the database. The code to create these SQL parameters and then populating them is repeated throughout the system. This article describes how to automate this code.

SQL-server-2000

Class implementation for using webservices in ASP

14 Jun 2005 by asanoguera

With that class you only have to set a few properties and you can access to the webservices, only need know the URL of webservice, the method to invoke, and parameters.

It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an...

26 Jul 2012 by AshishChaudha

Make you Web.Config file of Root folder and sub-folder same.

RecruitOffice DB - An Open Source Web-based Recruitment Management System

28 Feb 2007 by Asim_Abbasi

ASP based with MS Access as backend, recruitment mangement system. No DLLs.

The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

21 Feb 2013 by Baghel Naveen

I have always had IIs started by default, but suddenly now i see my default (and only) website is off. i get this message when trying to start it "The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion".running iisreset via Run > CMD gives me the...

The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

18 Feb 2013 by Baghel Naveen

After a lot of efforts i got the solution.iis was unale to start becuse the two other services was stop one was world wide web publishing and other was event log.Get the location controlpanel > Adminnistrative tools > ServicesFirst start the event log service then start the world...

IIS 5.0 query string limit in asp.net

27 Jul 2011 by Balaji Prabu AL

Hi, As everyone said, 90000 chars is huge. Check if that is required functionally. If you still need to pass 90,000 character to the page, it can be achieved by many ways.1) Try if you can put them in the hidden field and do a post back to get it back on the server side.2) This can...

IIS 5.0 query string limit in asp.net

28 Jul 2011 by Balaji Prabu AL

Look my previous solution. I have give you to source code as well.

In IIS how to redirect ?

20 Jan 2012 by Balakrishnan Dhinakaran

In IIS5.1 how to redirect to the specific file by just typing the file name in the URL.For example if I type "http://localhost/normal/home.html" or "http://localhost/medium/home.html" the page should automatically redirect to "http://localhost/standard/home.html".Is there any solution?...

Customary Functions of GridView in ASP.NET 3.5

25 Mar 2009 by Behrouz Rad

The most advanced things which you can do with GridView in ASP.NET 3.5

SQL-Server-2005

authorization to launch an executable from global.asax.cs in wcf application (hosted by iis web)

24 Apr 2013 by Bernhard Hiller

Who is running what? That's the question to ask here.It's not you to run IIS. IIS uses a different user, Local System or Network System or something like that. And it is a service. It runs in Session 0 which is not your user session and cannot interact with it (session isolation). And IIS need...

configure 3 tier apsp.net application in iis5.1

21 Jul 2011 by bhargavpp

hello i want to run my asp.net 3 tier application from iis 5.1 (localhost) i had create virtual direcotry but it gives error of master page but same project working from visual studio .so want how to create virtual directory for asp.net 3 tier application with screen shot reply asap thanks in...

How to Create SSL Secure Server (HTTPS) in Local IIS?

4 May 2013 by Bikash Prakash Dash

This tip is helpful to create and manage self-signed SSL certificate for local IIS.

How to create a SSl certificate in local IIS

7 May 2013 by Bikash Prakash Dash

Follow thisHow to Create SSL Secure Server (HTTPS) in Local IIS?[^]

Using .NET and PHP to create an extensible WebDAV server

31 Oct 2007 by Bill Seddon

Shows how a .NET based WebDAV server can be created by combining two Open Source projects. The example implementation returns files from a file system, but you can extend it to return resources from any repository.

Extending the ASP.NET multiline TextBox control to limit the number of characters entered

16 Nov 2007 by blogging developer

Developers use multiline TextBox controls in almost all web projects. Since the MaxLength property of a TextBox control does not work when the TextMode property is set to Multiline, we usually use Validator controls to validate the length.

Browsing Via Directories or HTTP, with ASP.NET

14 Jul 2004 by Bobby Ryzhy

An article on browsing via directories or HTTP, with ASP.NET.

BooProd.Core - Context sensitive URL

22 Dec 2004 by Boo!

Helps you create context sensitive dynamic URLs: dynamically computed URLs, depending on which server the page is generated on.

BooProd.BMail - Sending dynamically generated emails

22 Aug 2011 by Boo!

This package will help you send all kinds of emails like account creation, order, mailing, reports, ... everything containing dynamic fields. You can configure your own SMTP server, use notification, and add attachments.

How to Protect from SQL Injection in PhP based website

20 Jun 2012 by chetan dudhagara

How to Protect from SQL Injection in PhP based website

SQL-Server-2005

Restricting Access to trace.axd using IIS Basic Authentication

15 Sep 2004 by ChrisAdams

A technique to use the IIS Basic Authentication mechanism to control access to trace.axd.

upload a file in asp.net

10 Jul 2011 by Christian Graus

It depends. The only path that IIS would try to access, is on the server. Are you saving your files inside the root directory of your website ? If not, you need to. If you are, then you need to tell us the exact error, including the path, what code creates the error, etc.

It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an...

26 Jul 2012 by Christian Graus

If you get this error, it means what it says. You have a web.config file in a subfolder of your site. It has the allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' value, but in IIS you do not have a separate application defined at this level. This is an error. Remove this value from your web.config at...

System.Web.HttpContext.Current...

13 Jun 2013 by Christian Graus

When you use your local machine, you are logged in as yourself. When you deploy to a server, that server is logged in as someone different to your local machine. I bet that is your problem. You don't have a current user on your server yet, you'd need to log in first.

Network Assessment - A Guide to Infrastructure Planning

25 Jan 2008 by code-frog

A simple guide meant to take the reader through a series of questions that will help them plan for and manage their business network.

table in asp.net page is not being displayed correctly

15 Apr 2011 by Cyrus Neah

for one thing you are missing style=' before border-collapse: collapse at the table tag. I think that might fix it. I put border='1' style='border-collapse: collapse' in the table tag. and the border shows up.

Adding a zip filter to web services

16 May 2006 by DaberElay

Passing large amounts of data through web services can become a huge bottle-neck in a WAN application architecture (i.e., server is on the web), and in any case, a real load on the network traffic. This is one solution for downsizing the network costs.

IIS 5.0 query string limit in asp.net

25 Jul 2011 by dan!sh

This is weird. Why can't you consider any other way of sending data to another page/application?

System.Web.Mail and the pickup directory

28 Dec 2004 by Daniel Fisher (lennybacon)

This article describes how to use System.Web.Mail with the SMTP server's pickup directory.

Removing White Chars from ASP.NET Output using Response.Filter property

7 Feb 2005 by Daniel Fruzynski

This article shows how to remove unwanted white chars from each line, and some of the new line chars too. My code correctly handles scripts embedded in HTML pages.

DataGrid's ViewState optimization

11 Apr 2005 by Daniel Fruzynski

How to reduce DataGrid's ViewState size, while maintaining all DataGrid's functionalities.

Restoring Datbase Using BatchFile(*.Bat)

9 Jun 2008 by Deepak.M

This article describes on building a Database from scratch using Batch File from the existing Database

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

Cell Merging of DataGrid in ASP.NET

10 Oct 2007 by Deepthi Viswanathan Nair

This article depicts how to merge cells in the DataGrid control in ASP.NET, hence gains better look and clarity.

PrintPageEventHandler unable to print the required when I upload my site to IIS

28 Nov 2012 by demouser743

Hi all I am having my print code as followspublic void print(){ try { PrintDocument pd = new PrintDocument(); pd.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(pd_PrintPage); pd.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = "SnagIt 10"; pd.Print(); } ...

Simple Reverse Proxy in C# 2.0 (description and deployment)

28 Nov 2008 by Denis Voituron

This article describes how to develop a reverse proxy in C# using the IIS HTTPHandlers.

Creating a WebDav to RSS adapter

28 Feb 2006 by Diego Mijelshon

How to develop a handler that reads Exchange WebDAV folders and returns RSS.

how we run asp.net application using iis

23 Sep 2010 by dilip.aim11

i am using asp.net (visual studio 2010), sql server 2008, & iis 5.1;and i done all the task like create virtual directory etc.whenever i am running connectivity code. then it give the error "Cannot open database "my" requested by the login. The login failed.Login failed for...

SQL-Server-2008

New Ajax Navigation Bar

4 Dec 2007 by dilip23

New Ajax Navigation Docable Bar

Processing with C# and Oracle PL/SQL

29 Apr 2007 by Dimitar Madjarov

An article which describes an alternative way of cooperation between Oracle PL/SQL and C#

HomeLinks: What it is and how to implement it

19 Jun 2007 by dimpant

How to implement a mechanism to provide links to your web shared local files using XML, AJAX, and Web Services.

Using C# to Enumerate Through Stored Procedures in MS SQL Server 2000

3 Jan 2006 by DreamInHex

This guide will show you how to enumerate through the stored procedures in MSSQL 2000, as well as retrieve parameter information for a stored procedure.

SQL-server-2000

Using C#, OpenXML, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to create a multi-threaded Rules Engine Webservice

9 Jan 2006 by DreamInHex

Create a simple, scalable XML-consuming rules engine in just a few minutes, using OpenXML.

SQL-server-2000

AJAX Demystified - Part Three - An AJAX Color Picker using Anthem

26 Sep 2006 by DreamInHex

Create an AJAX Color Picker for your website with the power of Anthem.

A Simple PHP Polling/Voting System

11 Dec 2006 by DreamInHex

Create an IP-logging PHP Polling or Voting System in PHP 5.0

Dynamic ToolTip

10 Sep 2007 by drgbg

Dynamically toggle ToolTip messages from the client side.

Transactional Web Services with WS-AtomicTransaction

12 Jun 2008 by Dustin Metzgar

Explains a simple way of using WS-AtomicTransaction to create distributed transactions across Web services

A C# Serviced Component for Websphere MQ 5.3

29 Oct 2004 by eleung

A C# .NET serviced component that encapsulates MQ PUT and MQ GET.

upload a file in asp.net

10 Jul 2011 by Espen Harlinn

You asked about this earlier today:Access to the path is denied[^]Take a look at the comments - you need to set this up so that the IIS user have write access to a folder, and still provide adequately for sequrity.Best regardsEspen Harlinn

IIS 5.0 query string limit in asp.net

25 Jul 2011 by evergreen501

i have a query string of length 90,000 characters. i want to programmatically get all the query string values to do required operations. In IE 6.0 browser limits the url length for 2048 characters. In Firefox 4.0.1 it allows me full url limit specified above. But when i call the aspx page it...

Server.MapPath problems in Global.asa

7 Mar 2005 by felipep

Server.MapPath does NOT return the physical path of global.asa.

ASP Code Analyzer

6 Dec 2006 by fschudel

A simple tool to find unused subs, functions and variables in your ASP code.

Add an extra header to an ASP.NET DataGrid

9 Dec 2005 by Gabriel Sirbu

This article explains how to add an extra header item to a standard ASP.NET DataGrid.

Email Notification Framework

4 Oct 2009 by gaurav_verma_mca

A .NET managed framework to send template emails in HTML or plain text

How to upgrade IIS5.1 to IIS 6 or IIS 7

21 Feb 2012 by GC Theja

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade IIS 5.1 server to IIS 6. My oprating system is XP. Can anyone guide me regarding this????

Problem accessing folder on file server from web server (ASP.NET)

24 Feb 2011 by GenJerDan

Not in my experience. IIS seems to take the lazy way and go anonymous, even if there are Windows creds available.As far as accessing a folder on the server...Windows credentials or not, IIS won't pretend to be anyone other than itself (or the app pool user) unless you explicitly impersonate...

Problem in accessing the website on IIS6

29 Aug 2012 by greatabby

Hi guys,well i have a one query that , i am making a website for a company on which they had already made the website back to 2004 now i just have to do up gradation as i did, like i convert .net framework from 2.0 to 4.0 so the code moves to vs 2010 as it before it was on 2005, so now the...

web_development

DPAPI and Triple DES: A powerful combination to secure connection strings and other application settings

26 Aug 2005 by Hannes Foulds

This article shows how DPAPI and Triple DES can be used to encrypt connection strings and other sensitive strings for storage in the ASP.NET web.config file.

Unable to connect to target server

30 Oct 2012 by HarisJayadev

when i'm uploading large files using Asp.net file upload controls in my web app, Application geting "unable to connect target server error"after uploading two ot three large files(65 to 1gb file size) and it asking me to connect hosted serverin my web config i changed httpRuntime settings as...

Send Emails in ASP.NET using Gmail Credentials

10 Nov 2008 by Harshana Eranga Martin

This article contains code to send email using Gmail accounts.

wcf with IIS 7 + create java virtual machine fails with heap memory allocation

3 Feb 2013 by hemigueti

I met a big problem with an application that needs to initialize a java virtua machine. Let me explain: I have developed a wcf web service in C # and the framework 4.0 and in which I initialize a java virtual machine in order to communicate with java code with p/invoke call from a native c++...

virtual-machine

authorization to launch an executable from global.asax.cs in wcf application (hosted by iis web)

24 Apr 2013 by hemigueti

Hi,I want to know how to configure my application in iis(5.1/6.0) to launch an executable in parallel from the application_start function in the global.axa.cs file?With the integreted web server in visual studio, it works but not in iis : the executable start but it dies after and i...

authorization to launch an executable from global.asax.cs in wcf application (hosted by iis web)

26 Apr 2013 by hemigueti

You say that i have to solve the problem from the config file.Well as i said from the beginning that i don't have the source code and the config file has just some keys/values informations who the native dll reads(no directory is configurable in that file).The definition of the path to this...

authorization to launch an executable from global.asax.cs in wcf application (hosted by iis web)

29 Apr 2013 by hemigueti

http://forums.asp.net/post/5377467.aspx

Date control with support for languages and different date formats

31 May 2005 by i386.com

Using .NET's System.Globalization class for retrieving month names in forgein lanaguages, and the DateTimeFormatInfo for keeping your dates the correct way around.

SparkLines

25 May 2007 by Igor Krupitsky

SparkLine is a small, high resolution line chart. This article explains how to create and use SparkLines in your ASP.NET application.

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

How to enable ASP .NET in IIS 5.1

17 Dec 2010 by Imran Saiyed

Hope this link will help you, http://forums.asp.net/t/1062570.aspx

Load and Display Page Contents Asynchronously with Full Postback Support

14 Sep 2010 by iucon

An AJAX UpdatePanel with less communication overhead and better performance

SMTP Virtual server - send email to remote domain as well as to my domain

14 Jun 2010 by j_u_sankar

I have a problem in SMTP Virtual server config., When I send an email message through my web-application to remote domain, it's doing fine. but it is not working with our domain (****@mydomain.com) . We never receiving any emails in "Inbox" , but application sending the email successfully....

ASP.NET Zip Entry Handler

8 May 2008 by Jake Morgan

Deploy zip files to your web application and serve compressed files directly out of the zip file.

It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an...

26 Jul 2012 by Janavi Bhatt

Hi,I get the above error when i run a website in vs 2010..I have already tried the available solutions:1)Configure the website in IIS2) Looking for the web.configs (not needed) and removing them.3)moving the web.config from subfolder to the main.But all this did not work for...

Processing Long Running Tasks With Asynchronous Handlers and XMLHTTP

17 May 2005 by Javier Lozano

This article shows you how to use async handlers along with XMLHTTP to process long executing tasks in ASP.NET.