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10 November 2009
ASP.NET Debugger Extension – Manual Install / Uninstall
In case you have problems with the setup files for ASP.NET Debugger Extension you can manually install the module. FILES ADE.dll This is the main module that loads in IIS Location : GAC ADEWOWHelper.exe This is a helper exe that is used in x64 environments Read More...
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06 November 2009
ASP.NET Debugger Extension – Trace Process for Debug Events
With ASP.NET Debugger Extension you can also trace the process for events. This is actually a wrapper around the MdbgEngine (mdbgcore.dll) options to interrupt a process when an event occurs. You can use it to trace exceptions / module loads etc. For Read More...
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05 November 2009
ASP.NET Debugger Extension – Find Debug Modules
ASP.NET Debugger Extension has an useful feature to find modules that are built in debug mode. You start by selecting a website, ADE then scans all the folders under that website to figure out the modules that are built in debug mode. Debug modules should Read More...
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04 November 2009
ASP.NET Debugger Extension – Callstack Viewer
I recently created an ASP.NET Debugger Extension for IIS 7 that you can use to troubleshoot issues that would usually involve taking a memory dump of the process. One of the features in this extension is the ability to get a managed stack trace of all Read More...
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04 November 2009
ASP.NET Debugger Extension for IIS 7
Just finished writing an extension for IIS 7 that will provide advanced debugging features for IIS worker processes running managed code. It basically does three things 1. Find Debug Modules This feature will help you scan your website content to spot Read More...
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13 May 2009
IIS 7 Tip # 10 You can generate machine keys from the IIS manager
The machineKey element of the ASP.NET web.config specifies the algorithm and keys that ASP.NET will use for encryption. By default the validationKey and the decryptionKey keys are set to AutoGenerate which means the runtime will generate a random key Read More...
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14 March 2009
Caution while xcopying IIS 7.0 config files
Metabase.xml is the central store where IIS 6.0 stores most of its configuration information. Its a plain text file and stores all the information in a simple XML format. The XML format naturally raised a notion of being able to XCOPY the config file Read More...
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01 February 2009
WebBaseEvent.Raise method fails in Application_Start event with a NullReferenceException on IIS 7.0
If you implement custom health monitoring events in ASP.NET chances are that you should have worked with WebBaseEvent or WebErrorEvent classes and used the WebBaseEvent.Raise() method to fire those events. Recently an interesting issue related to this Read More...
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14 January 2009
Report Viewer Toolbar does not render properly on IIS 7.0
I was recently working on a reporting web application that uses the Report Viewer ( ReportViewer ) control that ships with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The Report Viewer control was rendering perfectly when I was developing using Visual Studio Read More...
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02 September 2008
Using Themes in ASP.NET loads System.Drawing namespace
Using the System.Drawing namespace is strongly discouraged in ASP.NET as it leads to a lot of performance/runtime problems. Recently one of our customers reported an issue where we were getting GDI+ errors in a normal ASP.NET application. Exception type: Read More...
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04 May 2008
The lone System.OutOfMemoryException in your memory dump
I was recently asked ... Every time you run !dumpallexceptions ( !dae ) you will find that there is always a System.OutOfMemory exception object that will be listed Number of exceptions of this type: 1 Exception MethodTable: 0482151c Exception object: Read More...
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01 May 2008
MachineKeys For IIS 7.0
IIS uses MachineKeys for encryption. IIS 6.0 uses a particular key c2319c42033a5ca7f44e731bfd3fa2b5_GUID to do the encryption. If you have worked on IIS Admin start up issues the machine keys is one of the first things we check because if you do not have Read More...
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14 April 2008
The ASP.NET - IIS Support Team has a new Weblog
The ASP.NET - IIS support team has started a new weblog http://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics and I am one of the authors who will be working on it. We will be discussing common ASP.NET - IIS issues which get reported to us. So next time you face an ASP.NET Read More...
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20 March 2008
Where is ASP.NET 3.5 on IIS ?
Most people on installing .NET 3.5 on the server "expect" an entry for v3.5 under the ASP.NET version Tab in IIS manager. And not finding that entry start panicking. If you have been one of those read on. The more tech savvy folks try to run aspnet_regiis Read More...
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24 January 2008
Anatomy of ASP.NET Forms Authentication Return URL
Consider you are browsing an asp.net web application that uses forms authentication and you are browsing the following url http://localhost:43751/FormsAuth/default.aspx?var1=test1&var2=test2&var3=test3 Once you time out you will be redirected Read More...
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