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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 enable HTTPCompression in IIS6

by Brij

Enabling HTTPCompression in IIS6

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.

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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

Common issues in WCF

by Member 10763717

Common issues faced while implementing WCF in Project

sBlog.Net - A Minimalistic Blog Engine - Using ASP.NET MVC 3

by Karthik. A

sBlog.Net is a minimalistic blog engine created using the ASP.NET MVC 3 framework.

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"Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

24 Dec 2019 by Dev.Vikas.S

Hi Friends,Quote:"Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"These days, im facing above problem while working with windows server 2003.When i upload precompiled file to IIS and run command iisreset then it's stop working and my...

"Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

20 Sep 2012 by Ankur^\m/

Here you go: You receive an "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion" error message when a service that uses the local system account tries to start on a Windows Server 2003-based computer[^]Let me just quote the cause. Go through the...

"Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

7 Oct 2013 by basharsalloum

Quote:Hello thereFirst check services.msc to ensure that you have a working service called w3svc , if you don't ,it seems that your world wide web publishing service is not working or it missed from your server due to installation error , so to fix up go with one of the following...

"Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

20 Nov 2014 by anoopgoyal

One of possible reason for this problem [It fixed issue at my end]:If you are using Debug code as below in your service the problem may arise. #if(!DEBUG) ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun; ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[] { new...

"Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

19 Nov 2015 by HariHarMaharana

One of the case could be that you might be using the DEBUG code. 1] Remove it or 2] If you don't want to remove #if DEBUG, then you need to re-build the solution in "Release" mode and use the .exe from "Release" folder instead from "Debug" folder.

"Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

24 Dec 2019 by kruzakk

Just check the .net farework where you have created the project and where you are installing the project

"There is insufficient memory or disk space. Save the document now" - Opening MS Word from ASP.NET

5 Oct 2005 by Sadish Kumar.V

This article will help you to open an MS-Word Document (Document or Document template) or MS-Excel sheet from server side code (ASP.NET) with minimum configuration efforts.

(SOLVED) ASP.NET: BUG? Webform does postback after 100 minuntes. Why?

9 Aug 2018 by Sni.DelWoods

What's wrong? My webform is performing a postback after 100 minutes by itself. I created a very simple form for testing with a log file. I open the website in the browser, click the button and close the browser (script runs on the server without browser output). The Button1_Click event runs a...

(SOLVED) ASP.NET: BUG? Webform does postback after 100 minuntes. Why?

8 Aug 2018 by Sni.DelWoods

probably solved. Changed web.config: to This option overrides the execution timeout to infinite. After checks I'll change back to false and set httpruntime execute timeout and other...

.NET Remoting under IIS - ASP.NET Application as Client

2 Aug 2009 by Raj Settipalli

Simplest method to host remote component under IIS with ASP.NET application as client

.swf file not showing on Server hosted site

24 Oct 2010 by tanweer

Hi all,I have an aspx page that has a .swf flash file. When using ASP.NET server as deployment server for the project every thing works finewhen I create a site in IIS and deploy the project on IIS. The flash appears white blank. If I right-click on it, it displays the context menu of...

.swf file not showing on Server hosted site

25 Oct 2010 by aayu

http://www.big...

10 SEO tips for your ASP.NET website

9 Oct 2007 by hartertobak

10 tips for search engine optimization (SEO) for your ASP.NET website.

13 disasters for production web sites and their solutions

6 Aug 2007 by Omar Al Zabir

Learn about 13 production disasters that can bring down your business

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2 page files, one in drive c, another one in drive d

4 Mar 2013 by Mico Perez

Hi GuysOur server is having two virtual paging files. Drive c has a custom build of 500 mb up to 1024 MB paging file. The other drive d: has a system managed.Which one IIS is currently using?We are experiencing system memory out of exception with only 2Gb of ram.Thanks

500 internet server error

24 Nov 2011 by Soft009

hi allWhen i run this code, in the browser display "500 internet server error".I want to know about this error and solution for it.Appreciate your comments on this!thank you$con = @mysql_connect("localhost","root","abc123");if(!$con){ echo("could not...

500 internet server error

24 Nov 2011 by thatraja

Check theseHTTP Error 500 Internal server for php pages and solution[^]PHP displays 500 Internal Server Error[^]

500 internet server error

24 Nov 2011 by D K N T H

try this link,http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886216[^]hope it helps!

500 internet server error

24 Nov 2011 by Eduard Lu

Best links for your problem:http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/http-error-500-internal-server-for-php-pages-and-solution.html[^]http://support.netfirms.com/coding/errors/how-do-i-fix-a-500-internal-server-error-on-my-website[^]Regards,Eduard

A .NET 2.0 Server Control for ActiveX Activation Fix

23 Aug 2006 by Seth-B

A .NET 2.0 server control to fix the ActiveX activation issue caused by Internet Explorer updates.

A beginner’s guide to WCF in XBAP

9 Feb 2009 by Rahman Masudur

This article shows how to use a WCF service in XBAP or a WPF browser application.

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.

A cool progress bar using JavaScript

8 Nov 2006 by Rashutosh Paul

This article shows how to generate a progress bar using JavaScript.

A JavaScript navigation toolbar

14 Feb 2004 by zlei12

This navigation toolbar is implemented in JavaScript by DHTML.

A small C# Class for impersonating a User

11 Apr 2005 by Uwe Keim

Introduced a class that simplifies Windows Impersonation in C#.

A web based application configuration wizard

18 May 2008 by defwebserver

A wizard that allows you to FTP an application to a remote server and then launch the configuration wizard from the web browser to update the database connection.

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A web service by using Workflow inside throw a ThrowKeyNotFoundException

15 Dec 2010 by leepor

I have two servers A and B,with the same deploy package.A works well.B throw an error:The given key was not present in the dictionary. at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowKeyNotFoundException()at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey...

A web service by using Workflow inside throw a ThrowKeyNotFoundException

15 Dec 2010 by Dylan Morley

Your exception must be thrown at this lineresponse = (TRS)outputParameters[typeof(TRS).Name];For some reason, it's not finding your TRS object in the outputParameters dictionary Can't really advise more without knowing how HostWorkflowService.StartWorkflow populates the dictionary

Access a Web page in Dynamics CRM with JavaScript Code

21 Mar 2008 by Baris KANLICA

In this article, I will show you how to access a Web page with JavaScript code in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. You can process CRM entities or different actions in that page

Access is denied to a file in Inetpub/wwwroot/... for pptx

15 Nov 2013 by Member 10454592

Got Access is denied to a file in Inetpub/wwwroot/... (IIS 6) for opening a .pptx file. However, it is OK for opening a .pdf file in the exactly same location. I checked the IIS MIME and saw the difference in MIME type, such as.pptx -...

Access is denied to a file in Inetpub/wwwroot/... for pptx

15 Nov 2013 by Sharon Freas

I don't know if this will help at all but on my IIS 7 I haveapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template for pptx

Access Website by its name in IIS

30 May 2013 by Yatin chauhan

Hello Friends,I have published website on my IIS web server. now i want to access that website by its name not by Its IP.i have tried to search in google and there is solution to change in hosts file but its not working. how can i do that.Thank You

Access Website by its name in IIS

30 May 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

To start with, you need to understand where those names come from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System[^].Practically, to make your site exposed to the whole world of the Web, you need to purchase some domain name, which you can get independently of from your Web hosting...

Accessing a VFS shared network drive through ASP website and viewing the files inside, possible IIS fault

31 Jan 2018 by EvsizTospaa

I have an ASP.NET website, that has to access a shared network drive. The shared network drive is on an EMC path or ECS. The management module for the shared drives is EMC made, accessible through a browser, so I am assuming. In the web.config, I have the drive names as Z:, R: etc.. I am able...

Accessing a VFS shared network drive through ASP website and viewing the files inside, possible IIS fault

30 Jan 2018 by Richard Deeming

When you map / mount a network drive, that mapping only applies to your session. IIS runs your application in a different session, as a different user. The code will not have access to any drives mapped under your session. If the application pool user has permission to mount the VFS folder,...

Accessing a VFS shared network drive through ASP website and viewing the files inside, possible IIS fault

31 Jan 2018 by EvsizTospaa

I have finally solved the issue. In case anyone else stumbles here, Since mounting the drives was impossible, I have modified the web.config to have the IP address instead of the mounted drive's letter in IIS manager, Configuration Editor. So instead of Z:\ , K:\ or F:\ now it says; ...

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.

Adding a ProcessContext to ASP.NET

11 Apr 2005 by Alex James

A simple and reliable way to build context into a multi stage process in ASP.NET.

Adding a tool tip to dropdown list and list box controls in Internet Explorer

1 Jun 2007 by Mansoor Sarfraz

Internet Explorer does not always show the full contents of dropdown lists and list boxes. This means if the data in the list box is bigger thatn the control's witdth, the user will not be able to fully see it. We can show a tooltip of each content to solve the problem.

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.

addition extension setup in IIS7 for asp project

19 Aug 2011 by Imran Khan Pathan

Hi friends.I am working on one website which is already built in asp and setup in IIS6 on WIN2003 server. Now it needs to upgrade into ASP.NET4.0, WIN2008 and IIS7.But before upgrading, We need to setup existing asp website in IIS7.I have following issue to setup existing website in...

after publishing how to set the url header name(display names on browser tab)

22 Apr 2014 by krish2013

Hii i created one website and published in iis here my issuein my application i gave title is ram it's working fine in local system when i try to open in local network the title name change here display same url name. after publishing how to set title for url header.

after publishing how to set the url header name(display names on browser tab)

22 Apr 2014 by Sunasara Imdadhusen

Hi Krish,Use tage to display title on browser Tab.Example:This is Demo TitleThe content of the document......

AJAX Demystified - Part One - The AJAX Shoutbox

20 Sep 2006 by DreamInHex

Create your own AJAX Shoutbox using ASP.NET and C#.

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.

All about Cryptography in .NET

20 Dec 2004 by AtulMalhotra

Cryptography classes available in .NET.

An AJAX image list control to manage lists of items displayed with icons

18 Dec 2007 by jlchereau

An ASP.NET server control inspired from WinForms’ ListView and implementing ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0.

An error while attempting to load the crystal reports runtime (X64 bit win2003 with IIS 6)

25 Aug 2011 by shreya1987

problem : I got following error while creating object of ReportDocument()An error occoured while attempting to load the crystal reports runtime.Either the crystal reports registry key permissions are suffcient or the crystal reports runtime is not installed correctlyenvironment :...

An error while attempting to load the crystal reports runtime (X64 bit win2003 with IIS 6)

12 Nov 2011 by thatraja

Here you goEither the Crystal Reports registry key permissions are insufficient or the Crystal Reports runtime is not installed correctly[^]An error has occurred while attempting to load the Crystal Reports runtime[^]Crystal Reports Runtime for VS on Windows 7 Throws an Error[^]

An information box control to display messages using AJAX

19 Dec 2007 by jlchereau

An alternative to message boxes, implementing ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0.

Anonymous Personalization Trick in Web Parts

13 Nov 2005 by Daron Yndem

My favorite feature of ASP.NET 2.0 is Web Parts. But the anonymous users in ASP.NET cannot save personalization data and can't use Web Parts design options. This article describes how we can solve this problem in a tricky way.

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Another AJAX Custom Web Control

8 Nov 2005 by Tad McClellan

A simple custom web control for using AJAX.

App Pool Crashing on GoDaddy server

25 Dec 2013 by Member 10487292

I have two domains on a hosting account at GoDaddy. They have been working fine for a couple of years since I moved them to GoDaddy from a small hosting company. About two weeks ago the .aspx pages would just "hang" with the cursor spinning. These are all pages that try to access an Access...

application in .NET 4.0 does not run in IIS6

1 Feb 2012 by Avdhut Vaidya

We have developed an ASP.NET application with Framework .NET 4.0.We host this application in IIS 6.We have two servers - Application & Development.All is fine in Development environment.But when we try running the application on the Application server, the website does not...

application in .NET 4.0 does not run in IIS6

1 Feb 2012 by Anuja Pawar Indore

Refer this, might help youhttp://johan.driessen.se/posts/getting-an-asp.net-4-application-to-work-on-iis6[^]

Application Pool Identity and Directory Security in IIS6

18 Aug 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

Application pool identity and directory security in IIS6

Application Pools on IIS 6.0

12 Jul 2009 by Kishore Nandagiri

Improve your web application performance using Application Pools.

Applying Robustness Analysis on the Model–View–Controller (MVC) Architecture in ASP.NET Framework, using UML

22 Aug 2004 by Shams Mukhtar

This article will enhance your vision on the usage of Robustness Analysis in conjunction with Model View Controller, using UML with application in ASP.NET. This article is a sequel to my articles on Architecture and Design with ASP.NET.

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Applying Security to Server controls

11 Jan 2008 by Makesh Sanwal

You may have to give access or hide controls based on the user logged in. This article would help you write custom code to show/hide or enable/disable controls

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.

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ASCII Art Generator

28 May 2007 by Sau Fan Lee

ASCII Art generator in ASP.NET.

Ask server ro run program from browser

3 Nov 2010 by KFLee

It would be useful if I can put some commands inside my 'private use' webpage to ask the server to start a to run a program for example, a compress program to backup the file.In Linux, one ofen see implementation which starts another shell (sh command) to run another program from where ever...

Ask server ro run program from browser

3 Nov 2010 by Simon M^cKenzie

If you're talking about classic ASP, you can use something like this:]]> If it's ASP.NET, you can use something like this:using System.Diagnostics;...Process process = new Process{ StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("myProgram.exe")};process.Start();I hope...

ASP Code Analyzer

6 Dec 2006 by fschudel

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

ASP TreeView (Version 2.0)

28 Mar 2005 by simonchen.net

ASP TreeView is a advanced ASP control that's base on Server side / Client side technique. server side: Asp + JScript, client side: Jscript + HTML.

ASP.NET Ajax Under-the-hood Secrets

5 Mar 2008 by Omar Al Zabir

Performance tips and hard-core tricks that change core runtimes, not for the faint-hearted

ASP.NET Application in IIS

28 Jul 2010 by dartfrog

Hi all,Now i am publish web application for IIS5. i made virtual directory and put my web application in IIS.I used web browser for seeing my application. such as :localhost/abc/123web.aspxbut what i want is if i type locahost in URL, i want to see my web application.how do i...

ASP.NET Application in IIS

28 Jul 2010 by E.F. Nijboer

In the properties of IIS (root) you can specify abc/123web.aspx in the Redirect To text box and select the option "A permanent redirection for..."Good luck!

ASP.NET Application in IIS

29 Jul 2010 by souidi abderrahman

right click on your application and click Browse. :) in the Internet Explorer you see the url: http://localhost...

ASP.Net Deployment in IIS 6

12 Jun 2013 by Ashokk88

Hi to all,I having a problem while deploying Asp.net 3.5 with Ms Sql Server 2008 application in IIS-6. But if I deploy asp.net applications without database means it works fine. And same application deploy in IIS-5 means it works fine. I allowed all web service extensions in IIS-6....

ASP.NET Menu Parent Menuitem Highlighting

17 Jan 2008 by Rolf Szomor

A work-around for ASP.NET menu parent menuitem highlighting.

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

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asp.net webparts not working in IIS server

4 Feb 2015 by Malayali Coder

I am new to ASP.NET and i was trying to learn about webparts. i created a webparts page with personalization enabled and different zones and also added a dropdownlist to call all these different display modes. It was all working fine in the local asp.net development server. but when i publish...

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.

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)

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...

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

Auto check of upload file for security

2 Nov 2010 by KFLee

I use freeASPupload to upload file that containing webpages to a "Public" directory in win2003 server with the idea of somehow evaluate all the risks before put it onto the webpage. The Public is setup as just read/write but not to execute.The server has virus scan and thereofre I guess it...

Auto check of upload file for security

2 Nov 2010 by Rod Kemp

To setup a task to run on a schedule would be Windows Task Scheduler[^].Most virus scanners have command line options to scan single files so if you know this you could use the Process.Start Method[^] to launch such a scan from you code once the file has been uploaded, this can also be used...

Auto check of upload file for security

3 Nov 2010 by KFLee

Thanks. I tested it by create a little file called wcron.bat containing just one line to list dir to a file and it works ok, except that the window task scheduler seem only can be set to perform on "day" as the basic unit rather than Linux Cron where you can ask to check it once every minute or...

Automate query execution by using xml and helper class

26 Jun 2006 by ashishinfra

The generalized class has static functions that return dataset and datareader objects , It accepts string(name of xml tag that stores the query) and value to be supplied in case query accepts parameters

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Base class for skinned Web Parts and generator tool

19 Jan 2009 by Sasa Popovic

Base class for skinned Web Parts and a tool that will generate Web Part code based on previously made layout (ASCX)

BaseWeb ISAPI Security Module

22 Mar 2005 by Christopher G. Lasater

This article details a way to perform web security much like ASP 2.0 does it, using an ISAPI Filter.

Bitsup - Server Upload Utility Using BITS

25 Jun 2005 by wduros1

A file upload utility that uses BITS as the transfer engine.

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.

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.

Build a Web Chat Application using ASP.Net 3.5, LINQ and AJAX (in C# 3.5 or VB 9.0)

30 Jun 2008 by junnark

We will create a very simple web chat application using the latest ASP.Net 3.5 technologies from scratch.

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Building a TreeView on Demand Using AJAX

27 Nov 2006 by AJFK

A simple implementation of AJAX in generating a tree view from XML, ASP.NET, and C#.

Building a Web Message Board using Visual Studio 2008, Part I - The Basic Message Board

30 Dec 2007 by Rama Krishna Vavilala

This article builds a web based message board and uses several new technologies introduced with Visual Studio 2008 such as LINQ, WCF Web Programming, WCF Syndication, ASP.NET ListView, ASP.NET DataPager etc.

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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.

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Building web services with persistent state

13 Mar 2006 by Alexandru Ghiondea

Describes a way of creating a web service that persists its state between sequent calls.

C# program for IIS restart on button click

18 Sep 2013 by Er Atul Sharma

I need to restart IIS 6.0 on button click from C# programming in asp.net 2.0. I am trying to do this using C# code. I have seen some similar questions about restarting IIS through code. But I have not been able to get any working solution from it. Some clearcut C# code about how to do the...

C# program for IIS restart on button click

18 Sep 2013 by codestar007

how-to-restart-iis-using-c/[^]

C# program for IIS restart on button click

19 Sep 2013 by ashokm01

http://terrapinstation.wordpre...

C# program for IIS restart on button click

19 Sep 2013 by phil.o

You could try:// using ...using System.Diagnostics;public class YourForm : Form{ // ... private void yourButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Process.Start(@"C:\WINDOWS\system32\iisreset.exe", "/noforce"); } // ...}

Cache, Session, and ViewState

21 Jul 2008 by Rajib Ahmed

Properly using cache, session, and viewstate objects in your asp.net application

can i install IIS 7 in Windows server 2003 64 bit operating system?

18 Jan 2012 by Balu199

hi, I am new to IIS and I want to install IIS 7 in my windows server 2003 64 bit operating system.Is it possible?where can i download IIS 7 64 bit?pls help me. Thanks,Balu