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ASP.NET MVC enables Web developers to build compelling standards-based Web solutions that are easy to maintain because it decreases the dependency between layers by using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern and provides complete control over the page markup. It also improves testability which enables Test Driven Development (TDD). Click here to download ASP.NET MVC or to learn more about it.

IISreset.exe is a magical command that resolves many problems! Err… well, yeah that command restarts all IIS related processes and thus essentially running it cleans up all the “mess”. So is there anything special about IISReset.exe in Windows 2008? Yes and I do not recommend using it and here’s very useful information that you must know about what this command does.

A few users reported that with Web projects located on a remote machine closing project or solution may hang Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express for several minutes. We found that the issue may be caused by VS logging component that collects information on product usage. This is an opt-in feature activated in Help | Customer Feedback Options... The feature may cause logger to walk through folders on a remote server calculating project complexity. The feature does NOT send your project to Microsoft, it just collects some statistics on the project. If you are experiencing slow project close, try switching off participation in the feedback program in  Help | Customer Feedback Options... dialog. If it does not help, try disabling component in registry by changing

If you develop small utilities for Team Foundation Server a lot you might want to save some time and use a project template (see bottom for file attachment) that already comes equipped with the correct references to the Team Foundation Object Model (Microsoft.TeamFoundation.*.dlls) as well as the most important using statements and a few lines of code to get started.

For IIS 6.0:

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Last week I was checking ASP.NET Forums as usual and I had answered a thread about renaming Windows Server 2003 and the impact of this renaming on IIS.