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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

All Articles

IIS

Working with Keyboard Events and their Codes in JavaScript

14 Sep 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

How to use the keyboard events of the user and use them to dynamically change the User Interface or to perform some actions

Simple simulation of load balancing

11 Mar 2015 by Ivan Yakimov

In this article I'll explain how to make something similar to load balancer on your single developer machine.

Passing Object Collections to ASP.NET Web API

16 Jan 2014 by Tom Glick Philadelphia, US

POC to demonstrate passing of collections of complex objects to ASP.NET Web API Controllers.

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.

Retrieving the COM Class Factory for Component with CLSID...Failed Due to the Following Error: 80040154

16 Aug 2013 by Moudud Hassan

Fix to COM component retrieving error:80040154 in web application running in IIS

How to Improve Web Application Performance by Enabling Dynamic Compression for JSON and JavaScript

21 Nov 2014 by ManojKumar19

Learn how to configure dynamic compression in IIS 7.5 to improve performance

How to Publish ASP.NETCore MVC Web Application to IIS in Less Than 5 Minutes

1 Nov 2016 by O.Nasri

A good tutorial in how you can publish your ASP.NETCore MVC web application to IIS.

Setting the best value for Application pool Queue length limit

5 Aug 2010 by Vinayaka Krishna Shenoy

Setting the best value for Application pool Queue length limit

Call WebService Dynamically and Read WebService Definition

17 Apr 2012 by abhinavshastri

How to Call WebService Dynamically and Read WebService Definition

SSL MakeCert / pvk2pfx & Client & Server Certificate Generation

20 Feb 2011 by Jammer

Create a full suite of SSL certificate for development purposes

Setting up IIS with HTTPS Binding

7 Feb 2014 by Avinash6474

Set HTTPS binding for web site

HTTP Respond Content Compression with MVC Controller Action Filter Attribute

24 Nov 2014 by Dushmantha Baranige

HTTP respond data content length compression in MVC web application by an ActionFilter attribute to improve performance in web requests.

IIS 7 needs extra configuration to allow large file uploads

13 Apr 2010 by Martin Jarvis

Whilst uploading a large (70MB) file to an IIS 7 website I got a 404 error….which was odd, uploading a file in a postback shouldn’t give me that. I know that file exists!On further investigation it turns out it was actually a 404.13 error from the Request Filtering feature of the Integrated...

Custom error pages for ALL file types

10 Oct 2011 by Gregory Gadow

Configure your IIS site to serve custom error pages for all your file types: .html, .aspx, .pdf, whatever.

web_development

IIS - Creating sites automatically from template

7 Mar 2013 by Zoran Rubinic

Automatically creating sites in IIS from template

A Basic Single Page Application Using Custom Dojo Templated Widgets

31 Jul 2014 by SrikantSahu

This tip can be used to know more about how dojo templated widgets can be created and used inside a portlet programmatically.

How to Access the Site using Domain Name Instead of localhost in IIS

7 Oct 2014 by Sri Nivas.M

How to access the site using domain name instead of localhost in IIS

The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' Provider is Not Registered on the Local Machine

11 Sep 2015 by Bimaln

How to fix the "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 provider is not registered on the local machine" error.

IIS Express (8.0) x Handler Mappings!

30 Jan 2014 by @donis2014

How to configure IIS Express "applicationhost.config" for handler mappings

Dynamic SQL Connection in ASP.NET 3.5 with User Controls

19 Jun 2015 by ss9o9o9o

Transferring backup files from a remote SQL Server and Dynamic SQL Connection with Restore utility.

SQL-Server-2005

Create self signed key...the easy way

30 Jan 2010 by Nicolas Dorier

This is a short bat program to create a self signed key (with private key), if you call the bat "makecertif.bat", to create a key named ServerKey you need to type :makecertif.bat ServerKey, it will create ServerKey.pfx, a certificate with a private key you can use to secure a web site in...

Sub Domain Implementation using Urlrewriter.NET (ASP.NET + IIS6)

5 Jun 2010 by Or (David) Berkovitch

Urlrewriter.NET can implement sub-domains

Bypass and Restore SSL Certificate Validation in VB.NET

8 Feb 2012 by Pascal Hubert

Looks like what I use!ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = New RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(Function() True)

Xml-WebService Array Parameters

12 Sep 2012 by Praveen Kumar Chauhan (PRK)

Sending Data Through XML to web Services

Hosting WCF Service with netTcpBinding on IIS7

1 Nov 2015 by ASP.NET Community

Hosting a WCF Service with netTcpBinding on IIS7

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

12 Jan 2024 by Lance Ford

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

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

18 Jan 2024 by Lance Ford

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

How-To: Use Wget to Automate the Karamasoft UltimateSearch Indexing Process for Your Website

7 Jan 2011 by Christian Mattix

How-To: Use Wget to Automate the Karamasoft UltimateSearch Indexing Process for Your Website

Adding .asp extension in IIS7 Windows Server 2008

20 Jan 2011 by anjali.l2003

Adding .asp extension in IIS7 Windows Server 2008

Synchronize file date time on multiple IIS servers and fix ETag discrepency

17 May 2011 by Omar Al Zabir

Files with different date time get different ETag generated by IIS. As a result, on a web server farm, each webserver sends different ETag for the same file as the files are copied to those servers at different date time. Here's a script that can set date time of same file across multiple servers to

web_development

Dynamic Compression in IIS 7

26 Jul 2011 by Chris Maunder

For IIS7.5, an alternate method to enable compression is to run the following commands in a terminal:To enable compression for both dynamic and static content:C:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv\Appcmd.exe set config -section:urlCompression -doStaticCompression:true -doDynamicCompression:true...

The Visual Studio 2010 Recent Project Listing and IIS Web Sites

3 Jan 2012 by HelenmaryC

The VS2010 Recent Project list is not very friendly about displaying web sites which you are running under IIS Express rather than the ASP.NET development server.

Better class-like inheritance support library for JavaScript

9 Mar 2012 by captnmac

Presenting library functions that circumvent some of the draw-backs of built-in JavaScript inheritance.

Problem while accessing your DotNetNuke site from outside the Localhost running on IIS Express [WebMatrix]

29 May 2013 by piyush_singh

Make your DotNetNuke site publicly available

Access REST Resources Secured By UAG from Mobile Device

21 Jun 2013 by Daron Cox

If you're trying to integrate with UAG from a mobile device, this tip is for you!

How to: Debug a Sharepoint 2010 Custom Web Service

31 Aug 2013 by hagerAly

This tip shows how to debug a Sharepoint 2010 custom web service.

Local Host IISStart.htm gives "Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Webpage"

28 May 2014 by Member 8607591

Internet Explorer cannot display WebPage

Convert existing BizTalk WCF service from “http” binding to “netTCP” binding

8 Jul 2014 by KundanKarma

Need to convert existing BizTalk WCF services with “http” bindings to “netTCP” bindings.

Deploying Your WCF Web Service to IIS

7 Oct 2014 by Dominic Burford

Deploying your WCF web service to IIS

Host MVC or Web API on IIS 5.x or IIS 6.x

10 Sep 2015 by BatraManish

Host MVC or Web API on IIS 5.x or IIS 6.x

A Binding Instance Has Already Been Associated to Listen URI

28 Jun 2016 by Herman<T>.Instance

Very simple problem to solve unexpected easily in IIS Manager

Debugging PHP on Windows

12 Feb 2019 by Armand Molinski

How to debug PHP on Windows

Automate IIS Reboot Using Task Scheduler

22 Aug 2022 by Raj Kumar79

Create a new task and set up a IIS restart using Windows 10 Task Scheduler

Verifying MSMQ is Working Fine for IIS Based Web Applications

22 Apr 2019 by _Asif_

Access rights issue over MSMQ could lead to hours and hours of investigation

Web Farms: Identifying the Node that Served a Request.

15 Feb 2024 by Lance Ford

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

Big n Bulky "How To" Document for ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, HTML 5 and JQuery

28 Sep 2014 by Bhushan Mulmule

This is terribly unorganized document with mix of MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, HTML 5 and JQuery how tos...

[Solved] Process With An Id Of ... Is Not Running

16 Sep 2015 by XyedBilal

URL binding failure

Removing the “#” Sign from AngularJS URLs with IIS Server

24 Feb 2016 by Muhammad Magdi

Step by step guide to remove the hash sign "#" from AngularJS URLs

Solution for "The underlying provider failed on Open" exception.

11 Nov 2010 by venugopalm

The underlying provider failed on Open Exception in WCF

HTTP Compression and Better Performance

5 Jul 2013 by Emon Khan

Here, I show how to know whether a website's HTTP compress is enabled or not and by enabling you can improve your application performance.

Visual Clues to Website Environment Under IIS

27 Mar 2018 by DerekT-P

Detection and reporting of website environment under IIS

ASP.NET 5 and Ubuntu

22 Feb 2015 by Hugo Carnicelli

During this article, we are going to explore what is currently necessary to run an ASP.NET 5 website on Ubuntu.

Reset/Restore IIS Settings to its Default in Windows

29 Jan 2015 by DiponRoy

How to restore IIS setups to its default, without uninstalling or repairing Windows

HttpModule for Logging HTTP POST Data in IIS Log

31 Oct 2017 by Dimitri Rakviashvili

Simple trick that allows you to log HTTP POST data in standard IIS log, without rewriting existing web application

Enabling SSL with IIS Express in Visual Studio

8 Feb 2014 by Ahmed Bensaid

Enabling SSL with IIS Express in Visual Studio

Dynamic Compression in IIS 7

3 Sep 2010 by vinNET

Enabling the dynamic compression. How to configure the same in IIS6 & IIS 7

What is Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and How To Use It From Visual Studio

17 Jul 2015 by Mukesh Pr@sad

This article describes blob storage service and how to use it from Visual Studio.

Running a 32-bit application under IIS on a 64-bit machine

7 Feb 2012 by Ovidiu Tudorache

Microsoft POS - How to solve "Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow"

22 Oct 2013 by aoDevTeam

Don't panic and stop wasting your time, the solution is here!

Limit CPU Usage for ASP.NET Application

9 Apr 2014 by Code Help 2014

This article explains how you can set a maximum limit of CPU usage for your website.

WCF does not support Compression out of the box, so fix it

8 Aug 2011 by Omar Al Zabir

WCF does not support Compression out of the box, so fix it

Run ASP.NET Website on Network through IIS 8.0

19 Feb 2014 by PallavSingh

How to run a website on one PC to another PC through IIS 8.0

Improve the Performance of ASP.NET MVC Web Application Using HTTP Compression

27 Feb 2016 by Arvind Gehlot

Use of HTTP Compression on ASP.NET / MVC pages using IIS or Server side code

Install IIS on Windows 7

13 Apr 2012 by piyush_singh

Installing IIS on Windows 7.

IIS & ASP.Net URL Rewriting

4 Sep 2011 by Ed Nutting

IIS_ASPNet_URLRewriting

regular-expression

Bypass and Restore SSL Certificate Validation in VB.NET

30 Jan 2012 by Robby Tendean

How to bypass SSL certificate validation checking and restore it

Publishing ASP Website in IIS 7.0

30 Oct 2013 by rajeshkool

How to publish website in IIS server

Why is my web application slow?

19 Jul 2012 by Sudheer Reddy Battula

My perspective on “where to begin” to address this issue in a general sense for a Microsoft centric web application.

Get .NET Core Web API Hosted in IIS

23 Nov 2017 by hong_wei_li@yahoo.com

Get .NET Core Web API hosted in IIS successfully at your local work station

Http 500 Error resolution

8 Feb 2012 by M I developer

Http 500 Error resolution

How to Design an Identification Card (ID Card) Print Program using Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows 2000, 7 or Later?

26 Jan 2015 by Lai Taiyu

Designing an identification card (ID Card) print program using Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows 2000, 7 or later

HTTP Error 500.30 - ANCM In-Process Start Failure - .NET Core

29 Nov 2020 by Gaurang Majithiya

Usually, you will see this error when you run your project from Visual Studio. This error itself says that it's a start failure while running your project from Visual Studio.

Azure Cloud Service with ASP.NET MVC and WCF

10 Jul 2015 by Mukesh Pr@sad

This tip describes how to build an application in Azure Cloud with ASP.NET MVC and WCF.

Why Use ASP.NET for Web Development

13 Sep 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

A slight comparison of ASP.NET upon other (web) programming languages in the market and a discussion of me and some other (web) programming language developers.

IIS Physical Path VS Virtual Path

26 Sep 2016 by Shamim Uddin

In this tip, we will discuss the differences between IIS Physical path & IIS Virtual path.

Configure IIS to Allow Any File Type to be Downloaded

15 Feb 2018 by Anupkumar7186

Configure IIS to allow any file type to be downloaded

Enable Http Compression

18 May 2010 by Tripathi Swati

A set of command line operations to enable and configure compression in IIS.

How to Get A in Yslow and Tune Up Your Website

12 Sep 2012 by taha bahraminezhad Jooneghani

About how to get high performance from your website and get a good score from Yslow

Host WCF on LocalHost and access via Internet

1 Sep 2014 by Jitendra sondarva

Consume WCF service/ access WCF service, that hosted on Localhost (IIS 7.5 or IIS express)

Specifying Ports When Running Applications in Visual Studio

10 Oct 2013 by Rion Williams

This post will provide a short walk-through for handling and updating these areas of your application to gain more control over debugging, testing and running your applications through Visual Studio.

MVC Application from Empty Application

16 Nov 2016 by shivendra pratik

Convert an Empty Web Application to MVC Web Application using VS 2015 IDE

How to enable the 64bit compatibility on IIS6 and IIS7?

21 Dec 2010 by techbird

Enabling 64bit compatiblity on IIS for 64bit ASP.NET applications

How to establish a reservation of classroom web system using ASP.NET?

23 Jan 2015 by Lai Taiyu

To establish a reservation of classroom web system using ASP.NET

Safely deploy changes on production

17 May 2011 by Omar Al Zabir

Deploy incremental updates on production asp.net sites without causing weird compilation error or runtime errors and ensure servers are recycled gracefully without impacting any user's session

Simple Powershell script to clean up IIS log files

3 Oct 2013 by Chandra Hundigam Venkat

Very simple PowerShell cleanup script that will clean IIS 7 log files

Get Better Performance in Dotnetnuke Framework

2 Oct 2014 by Trung Nguyen Son

How to analyse and tune your dotnetnuke site to get best performance.

SQL-Server-2008

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

Fix : HTTP Error 404.17 : The requested content...

4 Mar 2015 by koolprasad2003

Fix : HTTP Error 404.17 : The requested content appears to be script and will not be served by the static file handler

Configuring IIS 7 for ASP.NET Applications Deployment and SQL Server 2008 Integration

13 May 2012 by Patrick Wanjau

This article is important and essential for beginners and intermediate ASP.NET developers. It will help them set their development environment

Keep websites and webservices warm with zero coding

17 May 2011 by Omar Al Zabir

Use tinyget to keep websites and webservices always warm

Error: Unable to open the Web site ‘http://localhost/’. To access local IIS Web sites, you must install the following IIS components

25 Nov 2011 by Bangla Gopal Surya Prakash

IIS Application Pool Operations via C#

11 Dec 2015 by rvjagadheesh

A simple article which describes how to control IIS application pool operations via C#

Send PDF files directly to client printer without dialog box in ASP.NET application

28 Nov 2013 by kashif Atiq

How to send PDF files directly to client printer without dialog box in ASP.NET application

My Experiences with the 'Sys is undefined' Javascript error

17 Aug 2012 by Abey Thomas

This is an issue which can happen for a variety of reasons - but how do you find the right one?

Service for solving Vehicle Routing Problem using genetic algorithms and C#

28 Aug 2013 by Andrii Cherednychenko

Article describes how vehicle routing problem can be solved using genetic algorithms. Performance of C# version and solution architecture are also briefly covered

Cheat Sheet For Setting Up a Publicly Accessible Website on IIS/Windows Server

26 Jun 2015 by Mike Trank

Cheat sheet for setting up a publicly accessible website on IIS/Windows Server