October, 2012

Long back I had written a blog post about Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS   that caused a lot of buzz Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted Review: Using Windows Server 2008 on a PC I had my reasons to use a Server...

When .NET 3.5 was released a lot of people wondered why ASP.NET 3.5 wouldn’t show up in IIS. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vijaysk/archive/2008/03/20/running-asp-net-3-5-on-iis.aspx Well with .NET 4.5 you might be a bit more confused… So first .NET 4.5 will...

I have seen a lot of people searching for tools to simulate high CPU, Memory and Disk issues. Here are the tools I use Simulate High CPU Usage CPUSTRES.EXE is a tool you can use to simulate High CPU usage by an user mode process. Its available for download...

Here is a list of enhancements to Application Pools in IIS 8. Start Mode A few web applications take a significant amount of time to start up. IIS by default only launches a worker process when the first request for the web application is received. So...

The two new additions in IIS 8 are Preload Enabled This setting is available if you have the Application Initialization module installed The preloadEnabled metabase setting along with the startMode setting can be used to ‘warm up’ your web application...

In a recent project I worked, one of the requirements was to copy the entire incoming message to a String Field. Consider the incoming message <ns0:TestNode xmlns:ns0=" http://testEnvelope.SourceSchema" >   < FieldOne>FieldOne_0<...