The sixth video in the series looks at implementing CRUD using strongly typed data binding. I update the form vie controls to allow insertion of data, updating and deleting of data, and show just how easy it is to accomplish this by using the Entity Framework model classes created in previous videos...

The fifth video in the series continues to look at strongly typed data binding using Data Controls. In this video I modify the GridView and FormView controls to take full advantage of strongly typed model binding, and show how to extract data from objects linked to the object that the data control is...

The second video in the series explores how to setup Forms Based Authentication with SQL server 2008 and explains how authorization rules work in ASP.net. The objective is to create an authentication database for the app's users and setup the authorization rules based on roles, to allow or deny certain...

In this first video we look at the out of the box template application that Visual Studio 2012 generates when you create an ASP.net Web Forms application. We see some of the new features of the Visual Studio IDE, and some of the additions to authentication that come with the default project template...

A few days ago I had a support call where an ASP.net application deployed to a Windows 2008 R2 server and running on IIS 7.5 was crashing from time to time. When a page from the application crashed, a 500 error code was returned with an error message similar to the following: Compiler Error Message...

See the entire IIS Architecture and components tutorial at : http://linqto.me/n/IISArchitecture In the final part of the video series I explore the request flow process for requests coming into IIS and aimed at ASP.net web pages. I look at how the ASP.net application binaries are dynamically compiled...

See the entire IIS Architecture and components tutorial at : http://linqto.me/n/IISArchitecture In part two of the video series I explore the inner workings of the worker process – w3wp.exe – which is the process that loads and executes the code for the web-applications hosted under...

See the entire IIS Architecture and components tutorial at : http://linqto.me/n/IISArchitecture So here is the first part of a three part video tutorial about IIS architecture, its components and how requests are executed inside the Microsoft IIS 7.5 server. This first video covers the overall...

This Monday I was trying to deploy an ASP.net website that contained the ASP.net AJAX toolkit inside to a server running Windows 2008 R2 (64 bits) and IIS 7.5. This was the first time that I had attempted to do so on such a server. The way in which I went about copying the site to the server (which...

Version Française Every since the entry into service of IIS 6 (which comes with Windows 2003) the notion of application pools was introduced. An application pool is a means of isolation a web-application, so that the errors it may encounter will not influence other web applications executing on the...