I was working on a pretty tricky issue a while ago. It was related to the Visual Studio IDE high memory consumption and slowness and I found that there are a lot of files in the Source Folder. So much so, that my gut feeling was saying that it is the...

Let's have a look at the difference between Connection timeout and ASP Script Timeout today! 1. Connection Timeout in Default Web Site As you can see below, the Default Web Site properties on my Win 2k3 machine has Connection Timeout set to 120 seconds...

Another Plug-in which I wrote for inserting social bookmarks automatically in WLW needs a re-install. This post is just to update that the issue has been fixed! Please un-install the previous versions and install this one. Enjoy Rahul Share this post...

Recently, I came to know that a few changes in Windows Live Writer Beta version made my plugin to insert smileys crash the WLW! This post is just to update that the issue has been fixed ! Enjoy Rahul Share this post :

I created a Windows Live Writer plug-in for inserting Smileys a while ago. It depends on a TXT file which was initially present under Application Folder + "\Plugin" folder. Recently, due to design changes in the beta version of WLW, the plug-in started...

Some excerpts... SG stands for Scott Guthrie, who else :-) SG: I started with the IIS team back in '96-'97, working on our core Web server technologies, and was involved in shipping a version of IIS. After IIS 4 was released, we started looking at next...

At GTSC, we get a lot of requests for hot fixes. Up to this point Microsoft has always required customers to make a phone call into Microsoft Product Support to receive a hotfix . Today we have made available a web application that allows customers to...