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Great news today, from ScottGu and the IIS team: Wow – do we have a bunch of announcements for you! If you care about Web sites, read on. From really cool media scenarios, to making it easy getting started on the Microsoft Web Platform, to advanced tweaks to your Web site – we have something for all...

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DiscountASP.NET announces enhancing security of their SQL Server hosting platform through support of SSL encrypted SQL communication with their SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 servers and in both the US and UK datacenter locations. With this security enhancement, customers can use SQL Management...

DiscountASP.NET announces enhancing our SQL Server hosting with the launch of SQL Server Profiling as a service. SQL Profiler is a powerful tool that allows the application and database developer to troubleshoot general SQL locking problems, performance issues, and perform database tuning. With our SQL...

Are you getting this error? Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'. Hopefully this will fix your problem, if it is similar to mine: Today I was testing the implementation of a simple update command on a new Windows 2008 Web Server I had just setup: Using con As New SqlConnection(bd.GetConnectionString...

Were you aware there are two versions of the Access .accdb file format? The 2007 “ACE” version and the 2010 “ACE” version both use different drivers. If you’ve tried to use the Access Database .accdb format on DiscountASP.NET servers and it failed you must have been using a Data file created with the...