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Monday, October 26, 2009 5:00 AM

Application Auto Start in IIS

Application auto start is the ability for an application to be automatically started up before receiving any requests. In addition to priming the application for the first request, application auto start is also a way to have applications that start automatically
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Monday, September 14, 2009 5:00 AM

Windows Management Release Candidate

The Windows Management Framework has put out a release candidate porting some of the management features in Windows 7 to versions of Windows from Windows XP to Server 2008. The management framework includes PowerShell 2.0 and the Windows implementation
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:00 AM

Business of Cloud Services (for Developers)

Over on Channel 9 George Moore has a video talking about the commercialization and billing aspects of Azure cloud services that is aimed at developers. In particular, the video covers the background and basics of all the things that developers don’t need
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:00 AM

The Development Server is Not for Production

After creating a WCF service application in Visual Studio you might have noticed that the project configuration has three choices of web servers for testing the application: Use Visual Studio Development Server Use Local IIS Web Server Use Custom Web
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:00 AM

Kerberos Kernel Authentication Hotfix

After talking about Kerberos kernel authentication earlier I noticed that there was a hotfix available for a crash related to the feature. Kernel mode authentication is a new feature in IIS7 that optimizes the authentication of connections. This particular
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:00 AM

Improving Hosted HTTP Request Scaling

A few months ago Wenlong Dong announced an improvement to HTTP request scalability when WCF is hosted in IIS. In order to take advantage of the improvement you need the combination of IIS7 or later and Orcas SP1 installed. Since this isn't the ubiquitous
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Friday, February 20, 2009 5:00 AM

Kerberos Kernel Authentication Issues

Why does IIS7 with Kerberos use the server machine's credentials to decrypt the ticket rather than the application pool's credentials? What you're probably seeing here is the kernel mode authentication feature that was added in IIS7 for Windows Server
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:00 AM

SVC Script Maps

What registration in IIS is responsible for processing SVC files? There are two parts to the registration. One part is related to ASP.NET and the other part is related to WCF. The ASP.NET part is that the ASP.NET ISAPI has to be a service extension for
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:00 AM

Working with Session State

One concept that sometimes confuses ASP.NET developers when moving to WCF is the notion of session state. In ordinary WCF services, all of the session state is stored in local volatile memory. The application has to choose to copy over a portion of the
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:00 AM

Hosted Service Shutdown

I've talked a bit in the past about the tradeoffs of using IIS to host your service applications. In order to use IIS as a host, you must give up some level of control about how your application functions. This is similarly true with any other host you
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:00 AM

Hosting Queued Services in IIS

Over the past few days Tom Hollander has been posting his experiences hosting a queue-based WCF service in IIS. These posts go into a lot of detail about setting up the machines, configuring the service, and troubleshooting problems. If you're looking
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:00 AM

Configuring SSL Host Headers

Host headers in IIS are a way to associate multiple names with a single address. The typical use of host headers is to be able to host more than one web site at a single IP address by giving each of the web sites a distinct DNS name. Host headers also
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Monday, June 23, 2008 5:00 AM

How WebServiceHost Works

WebServiceHost is a new feature in Orcas that makes it easy to put up simple web services that are built on HTTP and POX. However, there's no requirement that forces you to build REST and POX services using WebServiceHost. WebServiceHost exists to make
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:00 AM

Acting on Open

How do I run a custom event once when the service is first started? The easiest way to execute some custom code when a service is started is to hook the service's Open method. Although the Open method has two different moments in time that you might be
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 5:00 AM

You Are Here

Inside of a service method, how do I know where the message was delivered? Without defining what distinguishes a location it's hard to explain where 'here' is. I've got a few guesses though based on the most common variations of this question: OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageHeaders.To
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