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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.

Hadoop For .Net & AngularJS Developers

by Bert O Neill

Query Hadoop using Microsoft oriented technologies (C#, SSIS, SQL Server, Excel etc.)

IIS 7 deployment: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET

by Monjurul Habib

How to: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET.

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.

Latest Articles

Web Farms: Identifying the Node that Served a Request.

by Lance Ford

Use an IIS module to identify the node that served a request in a web farm environment.

Override Date, Time, Currency and Number Formats in ASP.NET Applications

by Lance Ford

Step-by-step guide to enable an ASP.NET web application to override date, time, currency and number formats.

Add HTTP Request/Response Logging to an ASP.NET Framework Web Application With No Code

by Lance Ford

A walkthrough to enable request/response logging to an ASP.NET web application (or web service) by using an IIS module.

Installing Microsoft Web Deploy on Windows 7

by ToughDev

How to install Microsoft Web Deploy on Win7

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IIS

IIS 7 deployment: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET

3 Dec 2011 by Monjurul Habib

How to: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET.

web_development

Creating a “customizable” personal blog using ASP.NET

15 Dec 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is part 1 of the articles that I want to write for ASP.NET beginners, who want to build their own personal web sites, that mimic characteristics of blog. It covers the ASP.NET web application part.

How to Use IIS Manager to Get Worker Processes (w3wp.exe) Details Information?

5 Nov 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to use IIS Manager to get worker processes (w3wp.exe) details information?

Installing a Free SSL Certificate on Azure

14 Jan 2020 by Chris A. Johnson

This article explains exactly how to setup an SSL certificate for FREE on your Azure account. The existing free SSL with Azure only works on 'non-naked' domains, making it pretty much worthless. This is a 100% free method which ensures your site will be 100% secure.

The Bug That Got Away

22 Dec 2019 by Rion Williams

Bug stories: Exposition, action, climax, resolution, or epic failures.

How to enable HTTPCompression in IIS6

17 Oct 2010 by Brij

Enabling HTTPCompression in IIS6

Uploading the Files – HTML5 and jQuery Way!

28 Nov 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Uploading the files - HTML5 and jQuery way

web_development

IIS Articles Archives

1 Sep 2010 by Abhijit Jana

In this blog post, I have going to list out all of my IIS articles that I have published over last few years.

A Single File Login Page for ASP.NET

19 Aug 2012 by wullinkm

A single file login page for ASP.NET

Remove Slow Startups and Enjoy Less “Suspense” through .NET 4.5.1′s App Suspend Feature

10 Oct 2013 by Rion Williams

This article covers one of the switches that you might be interested in flipping, the App Suspend feature, which is available in .NET 4.5.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Salient.Web.Security.AccessControlModule

2 Jan 2010 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.

How to Change Default Port of IIS Manager from 80 in Windows 8.1

10 Jan 2014 by Nitesh Kejriwal

How to change default port of IIS Manager from 80 in Windows 8.1

How to Enable gzip Compression in IIS7

2 Nov 2019 by Ghanshyam N Patel

How to enable gzip compression in IIS7

Windows Authentication with Angular and .NET Core Web API

8 Nov 2020 by DotNetLead.com

This article shows you how to add Windows Authentication to Angular and .NET Core Web API projects.

Application Pool Identity and Directory Security in IIS6

18 Aug 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

Application pool identity and directory security in IIS6

How to Connect ASP.NET Website to Remote Database for CRUD Operations

10 Jan 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

An overview for connecting an ASP.NET website or a web application to a remote SQL Server database

Overview of DateTime Object Usage in ASP.NET Websites and Web Applications

12 Feb 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article provides an overview of the DateTime object in ASP.NET website, and a source code and example of a few scenarios in which using DateTime would be easy and simple, but tricky.

IIS is Dead - Long Live IIS!

9 Sep 2015 by ZteffDK

IIS is dead - Long live IIS!

IIS Rewrite Rules That You Can’t Live Without

4 Dec 2011 by Buaziz

The most common Url rewrite rules for IIS 7 and above.

A Bug in Custom ISAPI Filter Related to Keep-Alive

28 Jun 2013 by Zhuyun Dai

I once implemented my own Basic authentication logic in a custom ISAPI filter on IIS 6 and IIS 7.5 (classic mode).

How to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS with the IIS Rewrite Module

11 Feb 2020 by OwenDavies

The IIS rewrite module is a really powerful feature in IIS. It gives you power to set up rules to handle how requests for specific URLs are handled.

Installing Microsoft Web Deploy on Windows 7

7 May 2023 by ToughDev

How to install Microsoft Web Deploy on Win7

Optimize WordPress Speed Hosted on IIS

18 Sep 2013 by JIN Weijie

How to optimize WordPress speed hosted on IIS

Many Web.config Have Merged Together

24 Nov 2014 by Cindy Potvin

Many Web.config have merged together

Launching IIS Express from Visual Studio 2010 without admin rights on Windows 7

7 Jan 2016 by levelnis

How to configure IIS Express so that it runs from Visual Studio without needing Visual Studio to be run with Admin rights.

IIS Deployment Error: There is a Duplicate scriptResourceHandler Section Defined

15 Sep 2011 by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

How to fix this IIS deployment error

Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure?

12 Jan 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood

From time to time your website structure may change. When this happens you do not want to have to start from scratch with your Google rankings, so you need to map all of your Old URLs to new ones.

A simple guide to setting up home server using IIS and ASP.NET

22 May 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post, I am writing about the procedure to set up a home server using IIS and ASP.NET; IIS as the web server, ASP.NET as web scripting framework.

What is the difference between Web Farm and Web Garden?

2 Oct 2010 by Abhijit Jana

The exact difference between web farm and web garden, and the advantages and disadvantages of using them.

Solve IIS 8 Error: Could not load type ‘System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule’

30 Jun 2013 by Zhuyun Dai

How to solve "Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule’ IIS 8 error

Utilize gzip Compression in IIS

25 Apr 2011 by Wayne Ye

Describes the importance of enabling GZIP compression in Web application

Things that Developers aren't Supposed To Do

23 Jun 2015 by Paulo Zemek

... but unfortunately they do, and those things go into production.

Welcome to the Family, One ASP.NET

3 Dec 2013 by Rion Williams

When MVC came along however, the water became a bit muddled and developers had a major choice to make when starting up a new project: Web Forms or MVC?

ASP.NET Underground Tour (Part 1)

16 Apr 2012 by cpsglauco

To fully understand how to use ASP.NET, it is necessary to know the basic operation of the web (for example as occurs a request from browser to server, what are the technologies used, how a web server processes the request, etc.)

Keep Your Website Alive (Don’t Let IIS Recycle Your Website)!

19 Aug 2009 by webdev_hb

IIS can be a bully to your poor web application and when you're in a hosted environment you have even less control. In this post we discuss how we can keep your website from being recycled and do it without needing external code!

Introduction to HTML5 Development using VS 2010, HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4

16 Jan 2013 by kishore Gaddam

This is an introduction to HTML5 development using VS2010, HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4

Windows-Phone-7

Generic Repository Pattern MVC

29 Apr 2016 by Mayur V Lohite

Generic Repository Pattern MVC

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

Exploring Web.config - system.web/httpModules

18 Apr 2010 by Sky Sanders

Exploring Web.config - system.web/httpModules

How To Share Data Among Different Web Pages Using ASP.NET

29 Dec 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

How to share data among different web pages using ASP.NET

web_development

How to Quickly Configure your MVC Website in IIS

6 Feb 2017 by levelnis

This post will show you how to quickly configure your MVC website in IIS.

Understanding ASP.NET MVC using Real World Example, for Beginners and Intermediate Programmers

30 Jan 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article provides a brief description and overview of ASP.NET's MVC framework, and how developers can covert their real-world objects into MVC framework, to create web applications.

ASP.NET Application Development and Deployment Configuration Best Practices

18 Sep 2013 by JIN Weijie

Application development and deployment configuration best practices in ASP.NET

Access IIS Express Website From Remote Machine

7 Aug 2014 by Garry Pilkington

Access IIS Express Website From Remote Machine

Using SoapExtension to manage sessions

15 Jun 2009 by Diego Resnik

If you don't really need a big session management solution that will cost you in performance (no matter what..) and you only want 2-3 parameters that will help you identify some user's preference without all the fuss, consider - soap extension.

How to host multiple isolated WCF services within a single Windows service with zero App.config

18 Mar 2011 by StevenHollidge

How to host multiple isolated WCF services within a single Windows service with zero App.config

A Tip for Ajax Developers in ASP.NET MVC Framework

13 Feb 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This blog post shares a tip for Ajax developers in ASP.NET MVC framework.

Using C# 6 in ASP.NET 5

26 Jan 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This post is about C# 6 usage in ASP.NET 5 web applications to fine tune applications for more readability and better performance.

How to Add PostSharp to Your C# Project in 60 Seconds (a Simple AOP Introduction)

8 Mar 2011 by StevenHollidge

Simple and brief introduction to PostSharp and AOP style logging and monitoring

Deploy MVC2 Application in IIS 5.1 (Windows XP)

10 Nov 2013 by Sadeque Sharif

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

HTTP Error 500.52 (gzip compression) When Using IIS as a Reverse Proxy

25 Mar 2014 by Markus Greuel

IIS cannot rewrite gzip compressed responses from another web server, but you can prevent the response from being compressed.

IIS - Still Learning!

19 Dec 2012 by Himanshu DS

Learning about IIS

Fake ISAPI Handler to Serve Static Files with Extensions that are Rewritten by URL Rewriter

22 Apr 2009 by Nicolas Brassard

Fake ISAPI Handler to Serve Static Files with Extensions that are Rewritten by URL Rewriter