My Learnings - ASP.Net, IIS and more..

  Microsoft is hosting one of its kind AppFest for Window 8 in Bangalore India. Few thousand like minded people(read Windows 8 developers, fans and enthusiasts) will gather for a marathon programming session. For no less than 24 hours! Yes! That...

  Finally the wait is over and the latest and greatest Visual Studio version, Visual Studio 2012, is now officially launched! Launch Event For more details: Visual Studio Blog Somasegar’s blog Jason Zander’s Blog for 12 reasons to upgrade Cheers...

  If you are a developer and if you are yet to create your first Windows 8 app, then this is the best time to do that. I am listing down those simple steps which you will need to follow. I am sure you will be amazed to notice how easy it is to get...

Scenario: You are using Request.Url.Host property in your web application. You are expecting it to return the friendly host name but it is returning the NetBIOS name of server instead, or vice-versa, there are many possible combination on how this could...

With ASP.Net 4.0, a new property for View State was introduced, it was called ViewStateMode. Prior to ASP.Net 4.0, we used to use EnableViewState property. Now for an ASP.Net 4.0 application, both of these properties are available. So the question comes...

  While browsing your IIS hosted website (or any of the application, virtual directory) you run into the standard Http 500 error message. When you look into the IIS logs for respective site, you find an entry similar to this 2012-08-08 10:10:10 xx...

Lots and lots of ebooks, that too Microsoft Press, is available for FREE!!   Wide range of topics covered, from Azure to Windows Phone to Share Point  to HTML5 and many many more. Check Eric Ligman’s post Part 1 Part 2 Happy learning! Cheers...

  While working with Method Overloading, there are some corner cases which we should be careful about. So we know overloading is possible when parameter type and parameter order. But there is a lot which also depends on what parameter values...

    So here is the first post from my shiny new Windows 8 RTM machine! The more I am using it, the more I am loving it Find more about Windows 8 excitement here Blogging Windows Releasing Windows 8 - August 1, 2012 Cheers!

While debugging any issue on IIS7x server, more often then not, FREB turns out to be the saviour. With the new IIS Architecture, FREB is simply the fastest and most reliable way to get a view inside IIS Processing Pipeline. In lot of situations, you...

This is one interesting situation I came across this week. We are trying to remote debug an ASP.Net 4.0 application using Visual Studio 2010. FREB was showing http 500 error for the DEBUG request. We started looking at the memory dumps and found that...

On an IIS 6.0 machine, if you try to browse any hosted Classic ASP page (.asp), you get the generic ‘Page cannot be displayed’ error. Other resources like html, .gif works well without any issue. In IIS logs you will find the status codes...

Good times ahead fellow developers! Public beta release of Visual Studio 11 (including C# 5.0 beta) is available for download . For details – Eric Lippert’s post Please download and share feedback to products groups! Cheers!

There is a good post by Thomas on moving the IIS7 root directory to a non-system drive. IIS7: Moving the INETPUB directory to a different drive - http://blogs.iis.net/thomad/archive/2008/02/10/moving-the-iis7-inetpub-directory-to-a-different-drive...

IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0, IIS 7.5 The changes in Kerberos configuration in IIS7x (KernelModeAuthentication) makes it fairly easy to configure Kerberos on IIS. At the same time, it is critical for server admins to understand the implications of this. SPN is...

All .Net Framework versions till .Net 3.5 (non SP1) is going out of mainstream support on April 12th. Please upgrade to SP1. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&p1=13003&x=6&y=12

You get intermittent http 400 error messages while accessing your website hosted on IIS server. There is not specific pattern in the failure. In HTTPERR logs you see an entry similar to the following 2011-04-05 05:21:46 127.0.0.1 - 127.0.0.1 80...

There are three ways by which we can tell this(I learned it the hard way though) 1. FREB 2. TaskList 3. ProcessMonitor 1. FREB: When is comes to IIS7, FREB is a life saver! All we need is a FREB trace for any page which is hosted in the web site under...

Came across with this situation yesterday. The solution turns out to be simpler than expected. All we have to do is to get the class compiled in a dll and reference it! Here are the steps 1. Open VS 2005/2008 –> Create New WebSite 2. In the Website...