My ramblings on ASP.NET and IIS

Now to help you in Designing the Great APP( s). Here are the Design Templates which you can use : There are total of 55 templates. asa Read More  @ Asprangers.com">Read More @ Asprangers.com http://www.asprangers.com/post/2013/03/11...

To secure the IIS 7.x one of the recommendation is to change the Request Filtering => FIle Extensions: To Allow only the known extensions. For example : Default values in IIS 7.x Request Filtering => File Name Extension on IIS Read More...

Hi Jas, I have a question regarding view state. If we chunk ViewState , is it going to increase or decrease page load time and what is the affect to chunking on application performance. Hope to hear from you soon. Answer: Viewstate chunking...

Yesterday Microsoft released a patch MS13-04 [KB 2756920] which is causing extensive issues with Web[.Net] related applications. Windows 2008 R2 RTM customer are mainly affected by this patch. The following exception is thrown after installing KB2756920...

I've an Lenovo X220 laptop which comes with SSD HDD of 150 GB with Windows 7 installed. As you can see above; out of 150 only 148.75 GB can be actually used for storage From the last couple of days I had started getting pop up complaining about...

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Main() method in C# can have either (void or int) as the return value Void: namespace TestSolution Read More @ AspRangers

I recently got Lenovo X220 laptop . I always kept wondering about the different colors of USB ports it supplied. What does each color signifies ? Once I found out meaning for each port color. Thought it would be worth sharing with you Read More...

ASP.NET 4 introduces the inbuilt charting controls for the Web Forms with Visual Studio 2010. These controls were available as a separate download and can be used with Visual Studio 2008. Here are the steps to add the chart to your application: ...

As the saying goes, Prevention is better than cure. It is always better to check whether file is in use before doing any file operation on it to avoid any unexpected IOException during the runtime. Exception in question is: System.IO.IOException: The...

Sometime back I reviewed the few of the sample for automating task in IIS (6, 7.x) using MWA, WMI , ADSI. Here are the links to download the sample code (C#, VB.net) from OneCode site: Admin IIS7.x using MWA (C#) Read More @ ASPRangers

Today I decided to install Windows 8 (Release Preview) as the secondary OS option on my home laptop which is up and running with Windows 7 Ultimate . My Requirement : I want to have dual boot on the same box. So Windows 7 is installed on C:\ for Windows...

You can download (either in EPUB | MOBI | PDF format ) e-book on Microsoft technologies( ASP.NET, Office, SQL Server, Windows Azure, SharePoint Server and other ). T hese e-books are free. Read More Enjoy

Yesterday my senior asked me what is difference between Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 servers. Thought to share answer with you: Windows Server 2008 is the same codebase bits as Vista . It is available in two flavors 32 bit and 64 bit versions...

Working with following code on DateTime AddDays operation I found end result is not the addition of days!! int increment = 5; DateTime now = DateTime.Now; //Current Date now.AddDays(increment); //Increment by 5 days Console.WriteLine( "Today's date...

Question: What are Machinekeys? On what particular keys IIS 7.x is dependent upon? Ans: IIS uses MachineKeys for encrypting data like passwords, App Pool identities which are stored in configs(applicationhost.config and web.config) By default, IIS...

As we all know that only TRUTH that will never change is CHANGE itself. Even a butterfly and a baby eventually leave the warmth of the safest, most comfortable and the only nurturing places they know, the cocoon and the womb respectively. Such is the...

Today while helping my colleague AnilKP to debug a memory leak issue for w3wp.exe. It was the perfect example to demonstrate scenario where memory leaks were self induced . Here is the complete saga End customer complained that they had noticed worker...

On IIS 6 you can disable CRL check by running following command C:\Inetpub\Adminscript\cscript.exe adsutil.vbs Set W3SVC\CertCheckMode 1 but on IIS 7 we don't have metabase.xml. Now this key has been moved to Registry http://www.asprangers.com/post...

In the changing .Net world it's difficult to keep track of version corresponding to framework. Following chart would help you to keep upto date: Read More http://www.asprangers.com/post/2012/04/01/Net-Versions-Unleashed-.aspx

One of the most common error message on IIS 7 is 500.19. For your easy reference I’m adding scenarios and resolutions http://www.asprangers.com/post/2012/04/01/Resolution-for-HTTP-50019-Errors-in-IIS-7X.aspx

Step by Step tutorials and PluralSight Videos covering MVC 3 http://www.asprangers.com/post/2012/03/31/Resources-to-learn-MVC-3.aspx Read More

Recently my colleague Ravi cleared the PMP exam. Here is the secret for clearing the exam in his own words “ I cleared the PMP exam after several sleepless nights. I am sharing my experience and I hope it will help you prepare for the PMP exam...

On 64 bit window 2003/2008 servers as soon as you give any .Net (.aspx) resource requests you would notice w3wp.exe taking large amount of memory in form of Virtual bytes. Looking in task manager we would notice W3wp.exe Process/Commit size: 380 MB...