Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer

Tip #94: Did you know … How to improve the performance of PHP application on Windows?

Today the Microsoft IIS team has released the beta of the Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP . The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator , that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on the Windows operating systems. Read More...

Tip #88: Did you know… To not stress your server, limit the number of concurrent requests

The other day somebody ask me if there was a way to limit the amount of work that Site Analysis in IIS SEO Toolkit would cause to the server. This is interesting for a couple of reasons, You might want to reduce the load that Site Analysis cause to your Read More...

Tip #73: Did you know... about IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta

IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – is a free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more search engine-friendly. Read More...

Tip #72: Did you know... you can now manage Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows 7

Technorati Tags: VWD , Visual Studio 2008 , tips and tricks , ASP.NET , IIS , IIS Remote Manager , WebPI Last week, IIS Remote Manager was re-released to support Windows 7. Prior to this release, remote management was supported only on XP, Vista, Windows Read More...

Tip #71: Did you know... there are several new configuration settings available in FastCGI Extension 1.5 Beta

Following are the new configuration settings available in FastCGI 1.5 Extension Beta: MonitorChangesTo - This property specifies path to a file, changes to which will trigger a recycle of FastCGI executables running for this FastCGI process pool. If value Read More...

Tip #70: Did you know… how to install win7 RC IIS through command script?

Windows 7 RC’s IIS included ftp 7.5 feature.  Installing it from command line is a little bit different than the vista IIS7 command line.  It is as following:   start /w pkgmgr /l:log.etw /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;IIS-HttpRedirect;IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility;IIS-ASP;IIS-CGI;IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-ServerSideIncludes;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-CustomLogging;IIS-ODBCLogging;IIS-Security;IIS-BasicAuthentication;IIS-WindowsAuthentication;IIS-DigestAuthentication;IIS-ClientCertificateMappingAuthentication;IIS-IISCertificateMappingAuthentication;IIS-URLAuthorization;IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-IPSecurity;IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic;IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IIS-ManagementScriptingTools;IIS-ManagementService;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility;IIS-Metabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;IIS-LegacyScripts;IIS-LegacySnapIn;IIS-FTPServer;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI;IIS-WebDAV;IIS-FTPSvc;IIS-FTPExtensibility Read More...

Tip #42: Did you know... ConfigurationEditor allows you to generate C#, JavaScript or AppCmd script to update configuration?

If you want to write a script to add new or update existing configuration, no matter what configuration file it belongs to (e.g. administration.config, applicationHost.config or website or application specific web.config), you can install Configuration Read More...

Tip #41: Did you know... establishing a remote connection to a IIS server with self-issued certificate will require a certificate validation delegate?

Either through WMSvc or through your own script, whenever you try to establish a connection with a remote server, which doesn’t provide a trusted certificate you need to provide a delegate for this certificate validation check to validate untrusted Read More...

Tip #38: Did you know... How to use Failed Request Tracing to trace Rewrite Rules?

IIS7.0 Failed Request Tracing (FRT) is a powerful troubleshooting tool for request-processing failures. More details regarding FRT and how to enable it can be be found here . Once the failed request tracing is enabled for your site, do the following to Read More...

Tip #36: Did you know... How to manage pilot or beta program for your site using Application Request Routing in IIS7.0?

Won't it be cool if you can target and route appropriate users of your site to your pilot/beta/new looking site based on user's profile. This may help you in managing select users who have previously signed for pilot program and redirect them to new looking Read More...

Tip #34: Did you know... How to stop hot-linking from your site using URL Rewrite in IIS 7.0?

Hot-linking is a direct linking to a web-site's file (images, videos etc). An example can be using an <img> tag to display a JPEG image someone finds at your web site. This is also referred to as bandwidth theft as when someone is viewing this site, Read More...

Tip#25: Did you know... You can have canonical URLs and Redirects with IIS 7.0

Canonical URLs help you to make your links Search Engine Optimized (SEO). For human it is easy to understand that http://www.contoso.com is same as http://contoso.com . But many search engines will not make this assumption and treat them as two separate Read More...

Tip #20: Did you know… How to change WAP to use an IIS Web server?

Sometimes while developing WAP you might want to switch to IIS Web server instead of the Visual Studio Development Server provided by VWD. Here is how you do it: 1. Go to the Properties page of WAP by clicking on properties under WAP in Solution Explorer Read More...

Tip #17: Did you know... How to remote debug WAPs that are using IIS?

If you want to work on an web application project using IIS that is sitting on another server, you can use the remote debugger and the web property pages in Visual Studio 2008 SP1. First, open your web application project on the server (e.g. \\server\share Read More...

Tip #12: Did you know..How to create an IIS Virtual Directory from within Visual Web Developer?

Here are the steps on how to create a Local IIS Virtual Directory.To start with you should have IIS installed on your box. Step1: Go to File Menu->Click on New Web Site. Step2: Click on the Browse button in the New Web Site dialog. This will bring Read More...