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...