April 2008 - Posts
Ever try looking at the IP Address from this object? It isn’t very easy to see what the actual address is, so take a look at this post for how to get the data out: ASP.NET Tips: Printing an IP Address
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Want to see what objects you have added a finalizer too, follow the information here .
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If you are going to use a finalizer in your .NET class, be sure to read this post so that you understand when you should and shouldn’t use it: Understanding when to use a Finalizer in your .NET class
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We often get support calls on issues related to Anonymous authentication failures and this is something which we feel an Admin can fix without requiring our support. Our aim in this post is to ensure people have a good troubleshooting strategy for anonymous
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Narrowing down a problem is sometimes the hardest part of troubleshooting. Learn how DebugDiag can help save the day in this post: ASP.NET Tips- How to use DebugDiag to track down where a performance problem is coming from
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Overview I wanted to create this blog to address one of the IIS Support teams top support issues. The issue is with allowing the identity of the user logged into a client machine, to pass through the IIS Server, and onto a back end server. The process
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Another issue we discovered is around this. This is a rather specific situation, check out the posting to get more information on the issue: Visual Studio Designer not Respecting Assembly Binding Redirection
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Have you ever wanted to make an asynchronous call but use the credentials of the user that is browsing your site? Or connect to a database using a specific user account? Check out how to do both of these here .
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Recently we have discovered an issue with IIS Manager wherein changing settings in a certain way may cause unexpected restart of World wide Web Publishing Service. And this may happen before you realize until you go back to the Application event log and
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A new blog posting about this can be found here: ASP.NET Tips- How to identify a COM call that is blocking GC, causing a memory leak
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A common issue we see customers having is after installing ASP.NET 2.0, the ASP.NET Tab is missing from IIS. This tab is used for setting the version of ASP.NET and a lot of other things. When this tab is missing, it can be rather difficult to get it
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If you select Log File format as “Custom” in the IIS manager, it doesn’t give you options to configure ODBC logging in the UI. Instead, it just gives you an alert saying it cannot be configured through IIS manager which you already know.
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You can submit any question you have around .NET, IIS, or ASP.NET to me at my blog and I’ll answer the question or create a blog posting about it. Feel free to ask anything you’d like. Got a question- Get an answer here
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A new SMTP related issue has been brought to our notice and we are currently working on fixing it. This post provides information about an issue under investigation and is subject to change. SYMPTOMS When you make changes to the properties of a SMTP Virtual
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Okay, this is an interesting stuff. MembershipProvider automatically encrypts most of the sensitive information such as password, secret-question-password. What if you want to use the same encryption method yourself to encrypt data? Before continuing
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If you want to use ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider on your website to manage users specially the password reset functionality, you will also need to create few attributes in the active directory schema for the "USER" object. You can check
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