Tips and tricks: ASP.NET, IIS and .NET development...

Starting with Windows Vista, using the task manager to collect memory dumps has been the quickest way for most of the hang or performance problems. However there are two things to keep in mind: Respect the bitness of the process and use the correct...

Microsoft Press has published a new book for Windows 8 application programming with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You can download the PDF version of the book free of charge. For the details please see Microsoft Press blog: Free ebook: Programming Windows...

Consider the following scenario: You are running IIS Express 8 to test your web application and your web application contains a web.config file which is larger than 250 KB. When you run your application under IIS Express 8, you are receiving “Cannot...

Sometimes it is needed to dump out the configuration of an application pool in a text file. I have found the following command very useful for that: appcmd list apppool "test" /text:* Needless to say, test is the name of the application pool. The...

Consider the following scenario: You are running an Exchange 2010 in your corporate network and you would like to have your clients running in external network (say, from home) access their e-mails in Outlook (using Outlook Anywhere). Outlook -...

We have launched a dedicated web site for Windows Phone developers. Do not forget to visit the site for the updates frequently if you are Windows Phone developer. Windows Phone Dev Center http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/home -- AMB

Have you ever needed to generate a MachineKey to use in your application's configuration file or in machine.config? You may need a MachineKey in several scenarios. One of them is the scenario where you deploy your application in a web farm. One another...

.NET Framework engineering team has published a great article about the new features of Garbage Collector in .NET 4.5. It is great to hear that we have Server Background GC mode finally, which increases the performance and throughput of the application...

Here you can find very valuable resource from Microsoft Press, including Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold . Free ebooks: Great content from Microsoft Press that won’t cost you a penny http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive...

You can set up an application pool to start automatically but the worker process (w3wp.exe) will actually be launched once a request is made to the web site. However, in some scenarios you may want to have a worker process started automatically whenever...

We have just released IIS 8.0 Express Beta. Internet Information Services (IIS) 8.0 Express Beta is a free, simple and self-contained version of IIS that is optimized for developers. IIS Express makes it easy to use the most current version of IIS...

With the release of Windows 8 Server Beta, IIS 8 is coming to the world. If you are curious about what is new in IIS 8, you can check the following article: What’s New in IIS 8 http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2012/03/01/what-s-new-in-iis...

If you are not sure if Kerberos or NTLM authentication is used in your web application then you can use the script given in the following blog: http://www.ilinfo.fr/blog/post/Page-de-test-Kerberos-et-de-delegation-ASPX.aspx The blog is in French...

Check out the new logo of Windows (will be introduced in Windows 8) from Windows Team's blog: Redesigning the Windows Logo http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/02/17/redesigning-the-windows-logo.aspx You can also...

I found adding notepad shortcut in the "Send to" menu very useful trick as I can send any file to notepad quickly as seen in the screenshot below: Follow the instructions below to add notepad shortcut in "Send to" menu: Type shell:sendto in...

If you are running your application within a .NET 4.0 application pool (IIS 7.0 or IIS 7.5) or your web site is configured as an ASP.NET 4.0 web site (IIS 6.0) and would like to show your clients an "under maintenance" page for a limited time, the easiest...

Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on latest published security bulletin about vulnerability in ASP.NET which could allow denial of service: Title: Information About Microsoft's December 2011 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Release...

Although this class is not famous, it does a great job to calculate the execution time. Usually, the execution time of a code block is calculated by setting a start and stop variable (DateTime) just before and after the code block and then calculating...

Here is a frequently asked question: why can't I see IIS logs written immediately after a request? The anwer is that the HTTP.SYS buffers the IIS logs and flushes to the disk every 60 seconds because of performance issues. If you are running IIS...

I have just found that one of my colleauges, Spike, posted a nice blog article here explaining how to create a StackOverflowException using .NET Framework. He also explained how to find the root cause of the issue with live debugging using WinDBG. ...

I was helping to one of my customers where his Sharepoint web sites stopped working unexpectedly. All of the web sites were failing with HTTP 500 Internal Server Error message. When I checked the details of the error message, I have found that the issue...

"At 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, a man named Scott Fahlman posted a message to an electronic computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University. And with that simple action he did something wonderful: He became the individual...

I have tried to put together Microsoft's official twitter accounts in a list below. Please let me know through comments section below if you would lke to add others to the list. Microsoft - The official Twitter page for Microsoft http://twitter.com...

An interesting blog is posted on ZDNet: Ten watchwords for Microsoft's Windows 8 conference Summary: Microsoft’s Build conference is going to be full of Windows 8 terms and technologies. Here are 10 of the related codenames and features about...

Debug Diagnostic Tool (a.k.a. "Debug Diag" or "DebugDiag") version 1.1 is one of the most popular debugging tools which helps us to collect/analyze crash or hang dumps. However most of the features of the v1.1 is not working on Windows 7 or Windows Server...