Carmelo Pulvirenti's Blog

As everyone of you knows, 404 means file not found! A complete reference is available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943891/en-gb . Well, there is a scenario where IIS provides back an HTTP 404 even if your file is there! Unbelievable.. Let us...

Dear readers, Welcome back . Today I want to discuss with you how to monitor Application Request Routing via PowerShell script. In case that you are wondering what ARR is, probably you have to give a look at following link: http://www.iis.net/downloads...

Many times during my work activities, I figure out wrong configurations on web servers. Today, I want to discuss here this topic: web applications cannot be managed and configured like traditional windows applications. When we think to desktop applications...

Dear friends, Today I’m going to publish my first windows 8 app on my country store: Italy. Unfortunately it means that only someone of you could play with it, sorry for that. Anyway, application is nothing of special, just a television guide...

During this week, I had the opportunity to analyze a very interesting trouble and I want to share it with all of you. I do not want to go too much in deep about what occurred on the real scenario otherwise you could consider this post very long and boring...

  As Support Engineer, I have the possibility to work with many customers around the world with different configurations. A couple of mounts ago, I was surprised to work with one of them who sustained that after the migration to IIS7 from IIS6, the...

After discussing the following topics: What is a process's memory dump First Chance Exception vs Second Chance Exception The importance to collect a memory dump at right time I believe it is right time to share with you how to collect a process memory...

Collect a memory dump (in some scenarios) is the only way to understand what it is going wrong inside your process. Why? Since you have the possibility to check your application from inside. As I wrote here , a memory dump is a "picture" of...

There are many situations where customers ask me: what exception should I care about, first or second chance? I believe that that it is particularly important to understand the difference between them in order to properly answer to the question. Let’s...

Most of time, during the troubleshooting of an issue, it is requested to analyse a memory dump of our process. Let's try to understand what a memory dump is. The easiest way to define a memory dump is to think about it like a "picture" of our...