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Visual Studio 2010 1-Click Publishing
When it comes to deploying websites, many developers and companies have unique and creative ways to handle deployment.  While some have fully workable solutions, I believe that there is a lot of room for growth to bring powerful and straight forward...
Web Farms - How to tell which node is being served
I work with web farms on a daily basis, and one of the requirements that I run into, for testing, troubleshooting and logging, is to tell which node is handling a specific request. To use a current example, at ORCS Web , we're testing Microsoft's new...
Posted: Jan 18 2009, 06:48 AM by OWScott | with 8 comment(s)
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ASP.NET tab in IIS, more dangerous than it first appears!
This blog post was a long time coming and fortunately doesn't apply to IIS7, but I thought I would finally take a few minutes and cover this shortcoming with the ASPNET tab that ASP.NET 2.0 introduced into IIS 6 and IIS 5. As I've covered in a previous...
Posted: Aug 01 2008, 07:49 AM by OWScott | with 5 comment(s)
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Breaking changing in IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET
This quick post is for my own sake so I can find it again later. :-) I refer to the following link often. Mike Volodarsky has put together a detailed list of breaking changes in IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET. For the most part IIS 7 has great compatibility with...
Posted: Jul 11 2008, 10:32 AM by OWScott | with no comments
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Graffiti CMS - VDirs - ISAPI Rewrite and Partial Trust
I thought I would spend a few minutes today testing out Graffiti from Telligent . Graffiti is a fairly new blogging and content management system (CMS) which is meant to be very easy to install and setup. True to its word, it is impressively easy to get...
Posted: Jun 05 2008, 12:10 PM by OWScott | with 5 comment(s)
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Application vs. AppDomain
A question was asked on a forum that I frequent which I thought was worth writting a blog about. Q: What is the difference between an application and an Appdomain? I understand from my research so far that an Appdomain is a container within which ASPX...
Posted: Sep 02 2007, 07:21 AM by OWScott | with 7 comment(s)
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Tool: Creating a custom MachineKey in ASP.NET
There are many times when it is worthwhile to create a custom machineKey for your web.config file. This is worthwhile on a webfarm but also worthwhile on a stand-alone server so that your machineKey remains the same after an iisreset or application pool...
Posted: Dec 13 2006, 09:24 PM by OWScott | with 3 comment(s)
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Forms Authentication Timeout
This has haunted me a few times in the past, so for my own sake I figured I would write a quick blog that I can reference in the future. Hopefully others find it valuable as well. I ran into an issue today where the forms authentication timeout didn't...
Posted: Jul 15 2006, 05:34 PM by OWScott | with 2 comment(s)
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ASPNET_regiis.exe Tool, Setting the Default Version Without Forcing an Upgrade on All Sites
Starting in the first version of ASP.NET, Microsoft has provided a tool to control which version of the framework is registered in IIS. This tool, aspnet_regiis.exe, is quite flexible and with the right understanding of how IIS and ASP.NET work, can be...
Posted: May 30 2006, 08:52 PM by OWScott | with 7 comment(s)
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ASP.NET v2.0 - AppDomain recycles, more common than before
I stumbled across a very interesting find yesterday morning and Todd Carter confirmed it by sending a link to his blog entry . (it's a good read) First let me cover briefly what an AppDomain is. ASP.NET (.NET Winforms too but I won't cover that here)...
Posted: Feb 21 2006, 09:20 AM by OWScott | with 35 comment(s)
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