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IIS VIDEOS

2009-11-12T21:14:00Z

TechNet Webcast: IIS 7.0: End-to-End Overview of the New Web Application Server from Microsoft (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032298234&culture=en-US

IIS extensions

http://www.iis.net/extensions

MSDN Webcast: Understanding the ASP.NET Configuration User Interface in IIS Manager 5.0 and 6.0 (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032267004&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 09 of 24): IIS 7.0 Centralized Configuration (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032373834&culture=en-US

Authentication in IIS

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032268478&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 08 of 24): IIS 7.0 Advanced Management (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032369752&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: An IIS Centric View of the Application Security Administration Model for Distributed ASP.NET Applications

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032280371&culture=en-US

IIS stress testing tool set

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032281355&culture=en-US

techNet Webcast: Delegation and Configuration Capabilities in Internet Information Services 7.0 (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032345765&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Efficient Deployment and Management of ASP.NET 2.0 Applications on IIS 6.0 (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032292171&culture=en-US

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032352336&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Efficient Deployment and Management of ASP.NET 2.0 Applications on IIS 6.0 (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032292171&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Finding IIS Bottlenecks using Server Performance Advisor (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032280404&culture=en-US

Tune IIS7 performance

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032352141&culture=en-US

IIS& config delegation

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032267265&culture=en-US

IIS7 administration

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032348808&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Managing IIS 6.0 Servers in an Enterprise Environment: A Handful of Tips and Tricks (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032293251&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: End-to-End Overview of the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032343427&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Using the Security Configuration Wizard Effectively with IIS 6.0 and Windows Server 2003 and Service Pack 1

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032282096&culture=en-US

MSDN Webcast: The Inside Scoop on Diagnosing Memory Leaks in IIS (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032268608&culture=en-US

MSDN Webcast: Using IIS 6.0 Tracing to Effectively Diagnose Web Server Problems—Level 200

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032257524&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Internet Information Services 7.0 in Windows Server "Longhorn" (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032336492&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Using Host Headers with SSL-Enabled Web Sites in IIS 6.0 (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032280959&culture=en-US

MSDN Webcast: BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Practical Applications Using VSTO with John Wiese (Level 100)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032396513&culture=en-US

MSDN Webcast: Essentials of Application Security (Part 2 of 3) – Authentication (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032266454&culture=en-US

IIS hang

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032268604&culture=en-US

Troubleshooting Production ASP.NET Apps

2009-10-25T18:40:00Z

// Since IIS is main hosting platform for WCF apps, we need to know, How to debug IIS issues also

Troubleshooting Production ASP.NET Apps
http://www.asp.net/learn/iis-videos/video-6148.aspx

Failed request tracing

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/dunnry/Failed-Request-Tracing-on-IIS7/

Log Parser(How to analyze IIS log files)

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=265

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032263723&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Windows Sysinternals tools

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx

Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Resource Kit Tools

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499&DisplayLang=en

ASP.NET Hosting Tutorials

http://www.asp.net/learn/hosting/

IIS for ASP.NET

http://www.asp.net/learn/iis-videos/

webdeployment tool

http://www.iis.net/extensions/WebDeploymentTool
http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES15/

More info:

IIS.NET
http://www.iis.net/

Mark's Webcasts
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963887.aspx

Tess debug blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/

NT debugging

http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/

Troubleshoot IIS7 errors like a pro
http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/07/26/Troubleshoot-IIS7-errors-like-a-pro.aspx

Using Visual Studio 2008 with IIS 7.0
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/387/using-visual-studio-2008-with-iis-70/

Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.09.iis.aspx

IIS 7.0: Enhance Your Apps with the Integrated ...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc135973.aspx

Build Web Server Solutions with End-To-End Extensibility
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164241.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2

2009-10-25T18:22:00Z

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 available for customers, Please check following link to install Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2, If you have any feedback about WCF/WF 4.0, Please let me know

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

Windows 7: Videos & Tours

2009-10-25T18:09:00Z

Windows 7: Videos & Tours

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/videos-tours.aspx

Windows Live Essentials
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/windows-live-essentials.aspx

WORKFLOW TRACE IN e2e format

2009-10-08T21:20:00Z

Review: Windows 7 Is Microsoft's Best Operating System Ever

2009-10-08T18:24:00Z

WALTER S. MOSSBERG Review

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574459293141191728.html?mod

How to change MetadataExchangeClient reader quota values

2009-10-08T03:02:00Z

            CustomBinding mexBinding = new CustomBinding(MetadataExchangeBindings.CreateMexHttpBinding());

            for (int i = 0; i < mexBinding.Elements.Count; i++)
            {

                HttpTransportBindingElement transport = mexBinding.Elements[i] as HttpTransportBindingElement;
                if (transport != null)
                {
                    transport.MaxReceivedMessageSize = int.MaxValue;

                }
                TextMessageEncodingBindingElement textMEBE =

mexBinding.Elements[i] as TextMessageEncodingBindingElement;

if (textMEBE != null)
{

textMEBE.ReaderQuotas.MaxArrayLength = textMEBE.ReaderQuotas.MaxBytesPerRead =

textMEBE.ReaderQuotas.MaxDepth = textMEBE.ReaderQuotas.MaxNameTableCharCount =

textMEBE.ReaderQuotas.MaxStringContentLength = int.MaxValue;

}

MetadataExchangeClient mexClient = new MetadataExchangeClient(mexBinding);

WCF Contract First tool

2009-10-01T00:46:00Z

If you are very interested about contract first development, You can use this tool, If this tool is not meeting any of your contract first needs, please let me know

Web Services Contract First tool.

http://wscfblue.codeplex.com/

SMSvcHost.exe TRACE(NET TCP PORT SHARING SERVICE)

2009-10-01T00:32:00Z

If you see any problem with NET TCP Service, You can use following config to debug NET TCP problems

On 64 bit machines, you have to add this info to C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation\SMSvcHost.exe.config

On 32 bit machines, you have to add this info to C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation\SMSvcHost.exe.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<configuration>
    <runtime>
        <gcConcurrent enabled="false" />
        <generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false" />
    </runtime>
    <!-- Below are some sample config settings:
    <system.serviceModel.activation>
        <net.tcp listenBacklog="10" maxPendingConnections="100" maxPendingAccepts="2" receiveTimeout="00:00:10" teredoEnabled="false">
            <allowAccounts>
                // LocalSystem account
                <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-18"/>

                // LocalService account
                <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-19"/>

                // Administrators account
                <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-20"/>

                // Network Service account
                <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-32-544" />

                // IIS_IUSRS account (Vista only)
                <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-32-568"/>
            </allowAccounts>
        </net.tcp>
        <net.pipe maxPendingConnections="100" maxPendingAccepts="2" receiveTimeout="00:00:10">
            <allowAccounts>
                // LocalSystem account
                <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-18"/>

                // LocalService account
                <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-19"/>

                // Administrators account
                <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-20"/>

                // Network Service account
                <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-32-544" />

                // IIS_IUSRS account (Vista only)
                <add securityIdentifier="S-1-5-32-568"/>
            </allowAccounts>
        </net.pipe>
        <diagnostics performanceCountersEnabled="true" />
    </system.serviceModel.activation>
    -->

<system.diagnostics>
    <sources>
      <source name="SMSvcHost" switchValue="Verbose">
        <listeners>
          <add type="System.Diagnostics.DefaultTraceListener" name="Default">
            <filter type="" />
          </add>
          <add name="xml">
            <filter type="" />
          </add>
        </listeners>
      </source>
      <source name="System.ServiceModel.MessageLogging" switchValue="Verbose,ActivityTracing">
        <listeners>
          <add type="System.Diagnostics.DefaultTraceListener" name="Default">
            <filter type="" />
          </add>
          <add name="ServiceModelMessageLoggingListener">
            <filter type="" />
          </add>
        </listeners>
      </source>
      <source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Verbose,ActivityTracing"
        propagateActivity="true">
        <listeners>
          <add type="System.Diagnostics.DefaultTraceListener" name="Default">
            <filter type="" />
          </add>
          <add name="ServiceModelTraceListener">
            <filter type="" />
          </add>
        </listeners>
      </source>
    </sources>
    <sharedListeners>
      <add initializeData="C:\customers\smsvchost.e2e" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"
        name="xml" traceOutputOptions="LogicalOperationStack, DateTime, Timestamp, ProcessId, ThreadId, Callstack">
        <filter type="" />
      </add>
      <add initializeData="C:\customers\SMSvcHost_messages.svclog"
        type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"
        name="ServiceModelMessageLoggingListener" traceOutputOptions="LogicalOperationStack, DateTime, Timestamp, ProcessId, ThreadId, Callstack">
        <filter type="" />
      </add>
      <add initializeData="C:\customers\SMSvcHost_tracelog.svclog"
        type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"
        name="ServiceModelTraceListener" traceOutputOptions="LogicalOperationStack, DateTime, Timestamp, ProcessId, ThreadId, Callstack">
        <filter type="" />
      </add>
    </sharedListeners>
    <trace autoflush="true" />
</system.diagnostics>

<system.serviceModel>
    <diagnostics>
      <messageLogging logEntireMessage="true" logMalformedMessages="true"
        logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true" logMessagesAtTransportLevel="true" />
    </diagnostics>
</system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

What's new in WF/WCF 4.0

2009-08-20T02:49:00Z

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/matthijs/Whats-new-in-WFWCF-40/

http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/WF4/

WCF/WF 4.0 Resources

2009-07-06T18:48:00Z

VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 now available for public download

http://blogs.msdn.com/kavitak/archive/2009/05/20/vs-2010-and-net-framework-4-0-beta-1-now-available-for-public-download.aspx

WCF and WF .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 Training Kit

http://blogs.msdn.com/kavitak/archive/2009/05/19/wcf-and-wf-net-framework-4-0-beta1-training-kit.aspx

WF 4 Migration Guidance now live on MSDN

http://blogs.msdn.com/kavitak/archive/2009/06/05/wf-4-migration-guidance-now-live-on-msdn.aspx

NetFx 4 Beta 1 Resources

http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2009/05/21/netfx-4-beta-1-resources.aspx

WCF resources on channel 9

http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/WCF/

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 Walkthroughs

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd441784.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

PDC 2008 WEBCAST (WCF/WF)

2008-11-19T00:56:00Z

WF 4.0

http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/pdc2008.wf/

WCF 4.0

http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/pdc2008.wcf/

PDC 2008 links

http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/

https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx

SAMPLE WF CONFIG FOR NLB SCENARIO

2008-10-08T23:36:00Z

If you are deploying your workflow application to multiple machines(NLB scenario) and all these machines are using same database for persistence , you need to use following config

(1)OwnershipTimeoutSeconds should be very high value ,so other hosts can't load these workflows

(2)Disable auto unload

SAMPLE WORKFLOW CONFIG:

</CommonParameters>

</Services>

</WorkflowRuntime>

AFTER WE ARE DONE WITH WORKFLOW, WE CAN CALL THIS METHOD TO UNLOAD WORKFLOW MANUALLY:

StateMachineWorkflowInstance stateInstance = new StateMachineWorkflowInstance(Application["WorkflowRuntime"] as WorkflowRuntime, instanceId);

stateInstance.WorkflowInstance.Unload();

Workflow Designer and performance

2008-09-30T19:51:00Z

// we improved WF designer performance in .NET 3.5 sp1 , After .NET 3.5 sp1 also, you may see some designer performance problems, you can follow these guide lines to increase WF designer performance

Commonly reported issues

1. Time taken to open a workflow document is long.

2. Opening Activity bind dialog is slow.

Reasons for slow down

The Workflow designer relies on parsing the source code in the current project to provide updated design information in workflow design surface, rules dialog intellisense etc. This is mainly to enable scenarios where picking up changes from the source even before the project has been rebuilt.

Tips to make designer perform better

1. Move all types used in workflows to a different project than where the workflows live.

Move interfaces, event types, custom activities, helper classes to a different project than in which the workflow resides. E.g. in the solution from a customer, there were about 10 project, with 10 workflows each and 10 associated event types. These types are all reparsed to update to build the design time type information every time the user changes workflows in the project. Moving these to a different assembly e.g just one project with all the types needed for the 10 workflow projects will help improve performance.

2. Reduce the number of workflows in a project.

Each workflow is a type ( directly in c#/vb, and indirectly in xoml case) that needs a design time type to be built by parsing, so if there are 10 workfows in a project, opening any workflow in the project for the first time means parsing all the other workflows as well. Classifying these workflows based on their function and grouping them in 2-3 workflows per project improved performance drastically.

3. Re-Factor large state machine workflows into smaller workflows

One example we found from a customer had 780 states and 1000 activity binds in the same workflow, leading to a InitializeComponent() of about 16000 lines. Factoring this state machine into smaller reusable workflows will making designer performance much better, and reduce a lot of redundant states.

4. Don’t do long running work in activity constructors

Activity constructors are called during design time also, so doing things like connecting to a database etc should never be done in constructors, this can make the designer take too long to open workflow documents using these activities.

REFERENCE:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3808068&SiteID=1

What is Oslo?

2008-09-09T19:17:00Z

http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/dbox/archive/2008/09/06/oslo.aspx

http://douglaspurdy.com/2008/09/06/what-is-oslo/

http://blogs.msdn.com/shycohen/archive/2008/09/08/oslo-and-models.aspx