IIS

First something about caching The numerous caching options you have in ASP.NET (MVC) are mainly focused on data and page output caching. But caching also occurs at the webserver, network and browser level.  These you can’t always control from within…

you’ve been HAACKED – ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough Steve Sanderson’s blog – Deploying ASP.NET MVC to IIS 6 Bia Securities – How to enable pretty urls with Asp.Net MVC and IIS6 Omar AL Zabir blog on ASP.NET Ajax…

Here’s a hierarchical view of the IIS 7.0 Configuration Store Tom Woolum’s Blog : The Official Microsoft IIS Site – IIS 7.0 Configuration Store Hierarchy

When Netscape started the Mozilla browser, it made the conscious decision to support W3C standards. As a result, Mozilla is not fully backwards-compatible with Netscape Navigator 4.x and Microsoft Internet Explorer legacy code; for example, Mozilla does not support as…

Today IIS team has made the Go Live release of URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 available for download. This release contains significant functionality and performance improvements and it is believed to have a quality level suitable for production deployments.…

I started to use URL Rewriting on a Windows 2008 Server running Internet Information Server 7.  At the time of writing, a technical preview of the module is available here: Using URL Rewrite Module. After installing the module, I was…

One of my passions is optimization. There’s no code related task I like more than making something run better, faster, snappier – from tweaking UI registry keys to stripping out crap code – I want results. Usually if something is…

In no particular order, here are the top ten things I’ve learned to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications. Hopefully they will help you save you some time and headaches. As always, your thoughts and additions are…

I have a love/hate relationship with the ASP.NET Session. It’s such a convenient place to put things, but when you start putting applications into production there are a number of less-than-obvious edge cases that can come up and bite you.…