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How many application pools can you cope with?

This is an interesting question I have to admit I had not thought to until we got a case from a customer whom was in trouble with his production servers: how many application pools can you run on IIS? Event better, how many w3wp.exe instances can the Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 11:16 PM by Carlo Cardella | 1 Comments
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Don't let IE local cache drive you crazy!

I stumbled across this issue multiple times during my life of web developer (which begun about 10 years ago), it appeared every now and then to complicate things when I was in the middle of a heavy debugging sessions and doing frequent changes to my pages; Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 16, 2007 2:04 PM by Carlo Cardella | 4 Comments

A Trappable error C0000005 occured in an external object, the script cannot continue running

This is an Access Violation exception which can have different causes (MDAC bad installation, third party components such as Oracle dlls which Oracle has a fix for etc...), but in the specific case I had some time ago this was due to a corrupted Windows Read More...
Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 5:14 PM by Carlo Cardella | 2 Comments
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Server Error 500, unable to create new session

I saw this problem reported on a Windows 2000 Server (IIS 5.0), I've not checked if the same could also happen on IIS 6/7... The application is build on classic ASP pages and the error appeared about once per day on a test server; when browsing the user Read More...
Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 4:53 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Session_OnEnd not firing after applying Windows 2003 Service Pack 2

We very recently discovered a bug in classic ASP (asp.dll) you get installing the Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003; removing the SP2 makes it work again as expected, so this is a regression bug introduced by the service pack itself. Basically with SP2 Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:17 AM by Carlo Cardella | 46 Comments
 
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