Thomas Marquardt's Blog
A security patch for ASP.NET v4.0 was released recently. The details of the patch can be found at...
Date: 10/08/2010
You can disable the v4.0 ASP.NET extensionless URL feature on IIS6 by setting a DWORD at...
Date: 06/18/2010
ASP.NET v4.0 has a new feature, when hosted on IIS 7, that enables the execution of extensionless...
Date: 05/26/2010
In this post I hope to clear up some misconceptions about the use of threads in ASP.NET applications...
Date: 04/14/2010
Recently a number of people have asked how MVC and ASP.NET routing impacts the performance of static...
Date: 04/01/2010
Try very, very hard to avoid using Response.Redirect(url), instead, use Response.Redirect(url,...
Date: 06/25/2009
ASP.NET throws HttpException for numerous types of errors, making it difficult to determine exactly...
Date: 03/10/2009
This post discusses an efficient way to compress content served by the ASP.NET output cache. In .NET...
Date: 08/27/2008
.NET Framework v2.0 SP2, which will be included with .NET Framework v3.5 SP1, is scheduled to...
Date: 07/22/2008
If you allocate from the Large Object Heap each time an ASPX page is requested, your performance will be dismal.
I've been giving this advice for years internally, and the problem pops up way too often. I'm sure...
Date: 04/29/2008
Perhaps one of the most loved and hated features of ASP.NET is the ability to detect file changes...
Date: 11/01/2007
I've uploaded a brief summary on the extensibility of ASP.NET Session State (see link to...
Date: 10/10/2007
1.0 What is the IIS Pipeline Conceptually, the IIS pipeline is a state machine with the following...
Date: 08/30/2007
This appears to be undocumented. By default, IIS7 uses kernel-mode authentication, which happens to...
Date: 08/29/2007
Using a timer in an ASP.NET application is not as simple as it seems. There are three problems that...
Date: 07/21/2007
I'd like to briefly explain how ASP.NET uses threads when hosted on IIS 7.5, IIS 7.0 and IIS 6.0, as...
Date: 07/20/2007
When v1.0 released, the only OS that ASP.NET supported was Win2k, the only process model was...
Date: 06/25/2007
In Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1, the AJAX ScriptModule is listed in the web.config template used for...
Date: 06/13/2007
The ClrProfiler 1.0 Where can I get it?...
Date: 06/08/2007
Good afternoon! My name is Thomas Marquardt. I am a developer at Microsoft on the ASP.NET team. I...
Date: 06/08/2007