Finbar Ryan on IIS and Web Development.
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Configuring IIS Smooth Streaming and Application Request Routing Disk Caching.
I recently worked with a customer who was looking at using IIS Smooth Streaming as their...
Date: 01/10/2014
Friday Links List related to Visual Studio 2013 and Development.
Here are some links that might be useful in your day to day job. The VS and Asp.Net links came from...
Date: 10/18/2013
IIS and Developer Links Friday the 7th of June 2013.
There has been a lot of news this week with Tech Ed North America running and sending out lot’s of...
Date: 06/07/2013
Application Request Routing and Server Headers "X-Powered-By: ARR/2.5"
Today I would like to talk about the headers that you get if you utilise Application Request Routing...
Date: 06/05/2013
Asp.Net Application Security.
I was recently helping a colleague with a customer who was running a security check against their...
Date: 05/30/2013
Friday Link List 26th of April 2013.
As I mentioned before I will intermittently post a number of links I find interesting on the topics...
Date: 04/26/2013
How to stay up to date on Web Technology?
I recently came across this presentation and I think it highlights that it’s possible to stay up to...
Date: 04/26/2013
Debugging the “Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server.” error from Visual Studio 2012.
Hello, I’ve recently solved this issue on my machine and thought I would share this with everyone....
Date: 01/02/2013
Build 2012 Sessions on Windows 8 Development.
I thought I’d put together a list of the interesting Windows 8 Sessions at Build so you can use it...
Date: 11/06/2012
Build 2012 Conferences Sessions on Asp.Net and IIS.
I shared this with the rest of my team today. We all support IIS and Asp.Net and I thought that...
Date: 11/06/2012
Using the new Git For Windows Client to review the Open Source Asp.Net Web Stack.
As the Asp.Net Source is now Open Source I like being able to view what has changed and what has...
Date: 08/08/2012
Link List for Friday the 8th of June 2012.
Hello, I’ve missed a couple of weeks as I had a dearth of good links to share with you. I don’t have...
Date: 06/08/2012
May 11th 2012 Link List.
Hello, as I mentioned a while ago I was trying to use Friday to put the links that I found most...
Date: 05/11/2012
Asp.Net MVC 3 versus Asp.Net Web Forms Performance.
I recently worked with a customer who was migrating their site from Asp.Net Web Forms to Asp.Net MVC...
Date: 05/10/2012
May 4th 2012 Link Day
As they say on Star Wars day “May the 4th be with you” . Here are the interesting links I have read...
Date: 05/04/2012
Commerce Server and the MSCS_CatalogScratch Database and Maintenance.
Thanks to Charles Teague for providing some of the technical detail for this article. We’ll cover...
Date: 05/02/2012
The rise of the new Group Think and if cubesOpen plan is the way to go.
I’ve recently read this article and it really resonated with me as I have spent the best part of the...
Date: 01/25/2012
Modern Web Development Resources.
Last week I was on an Asp.Net MVC and HTML 5 training course. Sometimes I find it really useful to...
Date: 01/24/2012
Cut The Rope and Migrating a mobile phone game to HTML 5 and JavaScript.
I’ve come across this in a number of posts from my colleagues in DPE. Last night and I went to...
Date: 01/11/2012
Fame at last! Or how I wrote an article for the MSDN UK Newsletter.
I wrote an article for the MSDN UK Flash newsletter which is now published here....
Date: 05/18/2011
Commerce Server 20072009 Invalid class string after moving the resource Databases to a Production Server.
I’ve seen this issue a number of times on customer systems so I thought I would blog about it....
Date: 03/17/2011
Commerce Server 2009 Documentation in .Chm format.
I’ve not posted for a while as I’ve been working on customer issues and away on some business trips....
Date: 05/06/2010
Sometimes Friday will be Link Day.
Hi, Every now and then instead of an in-depth post I might post some links which I’ve shared with my...
Date: 08/14/2009
Silverlight and the Date Picker Control
I worked on an issue recently with a customer that was very interesting. They were using Silverlight...
Date: 08/12/2009
Commerce Server 2009 Training Resources.
As Commerce Server 2009 is now out and available I thought it would be a nice idea to do a post on...
Date: 04/14/2009
Silverlight Version Numbers
Just as note to myself here are the Silverlight Version numbers. Release Version Release Date 1.0...
Date: 03/24/2009
Commerce Server 2009
Hello, Commerce Server 2009 is now available for MSDN Subscribers. This is discussed further at this...
Date: 03/16/2009
Catching up on my Blog reading
After my extended break I’ve been catching up on my blog reading and I’ve come across some...
Date: 12/30/2008
Introduction to the Secure FTP Server 7.0 in Windows 2008
I’ve been working with this a lot recently and thought I’d share some of what I found with you....
Date: 11/12/2008
Using the Microsoft Web Application Installer.
This is a follow on from my last post on the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. If you haven’t read...
Date: 11/12/2008
Using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer.
You may have heard about the new tools available for getting up and running quickly on IIS 7 on...
Date: 11/05/2008
The UK ReMix 2008 Videos are online
The ReMix UK 2008 videos are up on the site for you to review at your leisure. If you go to the...
Date: 10/08/2008
Working in Customer Services and Support
I thought I'd add a little post about working in Support at Microsoft and how you can find out some...
Date: 09/24/2008
Thoughts post Remix UK 2008
The Remix UK 2008 conference was held in Brighton on the 18th and 19th of September and I was lucky...
Date: 09/24/2008
Remix UK 2008
I'm looking forward to attending Remix UK this week. Each delegate will receive a Microsoft...
Date: 09/16/2008
Commerce Server 2007 Training Resources.
One of the questions I am commonly asked is "Where can I learn more about Commerce...
Date: 09/10/2008
Microspotting Anyone?
I was very happy to come across the Microspotting web site. It's something that I wouldn't normally...
Date: 08/06/2008
Starting to look at Commerce Server
Hello, as I previously mentioned Commerce Server is one of the products that I support here at...
Date: 08/06/2008
New to Debugging?
I've just finished writing up an e-mail for some new people in my team about starting Debugging and...
Date: 07/23/2008
Commerce Server 2007 Service Pack 2 has been released.
The official announcement is over at MSDN Forums Commerce 2007 SP2 Announcement. Here are the links...
Date: 05/29/2008
Microsoft and Data Centres
Just read an interesting article which Steve Clayton talked about over here. I hadn't really thought...
Date: 05/15/2008
Apologies for my absence.
I've not been blogging lately. I've been working with a lot of customers lately. I also attended...
Date: 04/16/2008
Troubleshooting High Processor Utilisation usage by IIS Processes
As a New Year's Resolution I'm planning to blog at least once a week. Hopefully I will maintain this...
Date: 01/11/2008
Introductions and what I'll be talking about.
Hello, My name is Finbar Ryan and I am an Escalation Engineer in Microsoft Support. I support...
Date: 05/10/2007