12 June 2009
FREB – Troubleshooting a simple error message
I just wrote a blog post on my team blog on using FREB to troubleshoot a simple error message. I’ve taken an example of a HttpModule setting the Response status to 400. This is not a common scenario, but I just want people to use FREB extensively in their Read More...
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12 June 2009
URLScan – rejecting the request depending on the User-Agent string
I just learned this now :-) You can now use the URLScan 3.1 with your own custom rules, and it would come handy in situations like rejecting a request based on the User-Agent string. Below is a sample rule for the same: [Options] RuleList=DenyUserAgent Read More...
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08 June 2009
IIS7 – Improved Backup Restore Tool, and a UI Module
NOTE : Before you even read about this module, I want to mention that I do not work for IIS product team at Microsoft, but in Product Support for IIS and ASP.NET. This module/application is purely out of my interest, and this is not an official release Read More...
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19 March 2009
IIS7 - Getting HTTP 500.19 while accessing the website
I recently worked with one of my customer who was getting “HTTP 500.19” error while browsing the website. Server Error in Application " application name " HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error HRESULT: 0x8007000d Description of HRESULT The Read More...
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18 March 2009
IIS7 Tweet #2: Modifying an existing binding for the website
appcmd.exe set config  -section:system.applicationHost/sites /[name='Default Web Site'].bindings.[protocol='http',bindingInformation='*:80:'].bindingInformation:"*:80:www.test.com"  /commit:apphost Read More...
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17 March 2009
IIS7 Tweet #1 : Setting UploadReadAheadSize
appcmd.exe set config  -section:system.webServer/serverRuntime /uploadReadAheadSize:"491521"  /commit:apphost Read More...
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09 March 2009
Problems with rendering the "Design" View for a simple asp.net website from Visual Studio 2008
I recently worked with one of my customer who when clicking on the "Design" view of an ASPX page, the designer window doesn't appear - blank page appears. And if you minimize the VS window, and maximize it again - we will see the desktop background Read More...
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26 February 2009
ASP.NET - AJAX functionality not working on the page | Getting ‘Sys’ is undefined
When the ASP.NET AJAX Functionality is not working on a web page, it is usually due to the fact that the javascript needed for AJAX is not sent to the client from the server for some reason. ‘Sys’ is undefined. You might see this error message when there Read More...
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24 February 2009
VS2008 - Getting "Creating project 'projectname'... project creation failed"
Symptom Cannot create a simple web application or a windows application project with Visual Studio 2008. Getting "Creating project 'projectname'... project creation failed" Cause Few packages are marked as skipped for loading Resolution Ran Read More...
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11 February 2009
IIS7 – Search the complete IIS configuration store – in which web.config is your attribute configured
As you know IIS 7.0 configuration system is huge, broad, or whatever you feel like calling it. It no longer just exist in its main configuration file applicationHost.config (like Metabase.XML in IIS 6.0). It can be widely spread in any of the web.config Read More...
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30 January 2009
ASP.NET – JSON – Serialization and Deserialization
I was looking around for a simple example which would just do a object serialization to a JSON format, and then deserializing back to the original object. I found few examples on MSDN, but did seem to be too long to try. Here I’ve given a simple code Read More...
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23 January 2009
Configuring IIS to advise the browser render on different IE modes
You would have already read IIS support team’s blog about configuring IIS to send an additional header to the client which would make IE to run under EmulateIE7 mode. I would also suggest you to read this MSDN article which talks about the various IE8 Read More...
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08 January 2009
IIS7 and Twitter – a love story
It is a while that I wrote something as crazy as this one is. This is basically a windows service running in your web server which would tweet often about the heart beat of the web server and posts its status messages. For example, v1.0 of this application Read More...
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07 January 2009
IIS7 – Viewing ISAPI Filters that are loaded inside the worker process
In IIS6 manager, you see a green arrow icon and a red icon against the ISAPI Filter’s list to indicate if the ISAPI Filter is loaded or not. That was possible because FilterStatus metabase key was updated after the ISAPI Filter is loaded inside the process. Read More...
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21 November 2008
ADSUTIL.vbs – Copying a website
Copying a website (to another exact copy) Here is the command to copy a website(run from a cmd prompt – c:\inetpub\adminscripts): > cscript.exe adsutil.vbs copy <source> <destination> > cscript.exe adsutil.vbs copy w3svc/1 w3svc/556 Read More...
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