My ramblings on ASP.NET and IIS
What’s new in IIS8.5 (Win 2012 R2)
Much Needed features added to IIS 8.5 (Windows 20012 R2) Read More @ Asprangers.com...
Date: 10/12/2013
Convert Char Codes back and forth using JavaScript and Reference table
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Date: 10/02/2013
Session State (Aspnet_state.exe) misbehaving and giving errors in event log
Session State (Aspnet_state.exe) misbehaving and giving errors in event log...
Date: 09/26/2013
Web Deploy command line (msdeploy.exe) Scenario bash
Web Deploy command line (msdeploy.exe) Scenario bash...
Date: 09/24/2013
3 new Posts: .Net Debugging and TFS connection Options
Why my Asp.Net application hangs intermittently everyday ?...
Date: 09/23/2013
Free : Win 8 App Design Reference Templates
Now to help you in Designing the Great APP( s). Here are the Design Templates which you can use :...
Date: 03/11/2013
IIS 7.x: Getting 404.7 error for “/” root requests after Disabling Allow Unlisted file extension
To secure the IIS 7.x one of the recommendation is to change the Request Filtering => FIle...
Date: 03/07/2013
User Question: ViewState chunking is it going to increase or decrease performance for ASP.NET 2.0 app
Hi Jas, I have a question regarding view state. If we chunk ViewState, is it going to increase or...
Date: 02/14/2013
.Net Patch MS13-004 [KB 2756920] causing problem on SharePoint,Exchange 2010, .Net Web Apps
Yesterday Microsoft released a patch MS13-04[KB 2756920] which is causing extensive issues with...
Date: 01/10/2013
Windows 8: I wanna be commercial Ad
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Date: 11/17/2012
Meet Steve B. See his Windows Phone 8
Really liked this awesome video .Check out Steve Ballmer’s WPhone 8 Read More @ ASPRangers
Date: 10/31/2012
Reading the return value from Main() in VbScript,Batch File,PowerShell Script
Main() method in C# can have either (void or int) as the return value Void: namespace TestSolution...
Date: 10/18/2012
What’s in color: Yellow, Blue , Gray color USB Ports on Lenovo
I recently got Lenovo X220 laptop . I always kept wondering about the different colors of USB ports...
Date: 10/02/2012
ASP.NET 4 – Exploring the inbuilt Chart Control in VS 2010
ASP.NET 4 introduces the inbuilt charting controls for the Web Forms with Visual Studio 2010. These...
Date: 08/29/2012
To check whether a file is in use or not in .Net program
As the saying goes, Prevention is better than cure. It is always better to check whether file is in...
Date: 08/27/2012
Samples for Programmatically Accessing / Scripting /Automation of Administrative Tasks in IIS
Sometime back I reviewed the few of the sample for automating task in IIS (6, 7.x) using MWA, WMI ,...
Date: 08/26/2012
Creating a Dual boot Window 7 and Windows 8 on my Dell laptop
Today I decided to install Windows 8 (Release Preview) as the secondary OS option on my home laptop...
Date: 08/24/2012
Free E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies ASP.NET, Office, SQL Server, Windows Azure, SharePoint Server
You can download (either in EPUB | MOBI | PDF format ) e-book on Microsoft technologies( ASP.NET,...
Date: 08/20/2012
Difference between Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 OS
Yesterday my senior asked me what is difference between Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 servers....
Date: 06/14/2012
MachineKeys on IIS 7.x : Inside Out
Question: What are Machinekeys? On what particular keys IIS 7.x is dependent upon? Ans: IIS uses...
Date: 05/03/2012
Last day @ iGTSC: Moving on ..
As we all know that only TRUTH that will never change is CHANGE itself. Even a butterfly and a baby...
Date: 04/05/2012
Beware Tracing in ASP.NET can lead to Memory leaks eventually OOM
Today while helping my colleague AnilKP to debug a memory leak issue for w3wp.exe. It was the...
Date: 04/03/2012
How to Disable CRL check on IIS 7.X
On IIS 6 you can disable CRL check by running following command C:\Inetpub\Adminscript\cscript.exe...
Date: 04/02/2012
.Net Versions Unleashed Part-2
In the changing .Net world it's difficult to keep track of version corresponding to framework....
Date: 04/02/2012
Resolution for HTTP 500.19 Errors in IIS 7.X
One of the most common error message on IIS 7 is 500.19. For your easy reference I’m adding...
Date: 04/01/2012
Resources to learn MVC 3
Step by Step tutorials and PluralSight Videos covering MVC 3...
Date: 04/01/2012
Secret to clear the PMP Exam
Recently my colleague Ravi cleared the PMP exam. Here is the secret for clearing the exam in his own...
Date: 03/30/2012
Look who is reserving large amount of virtual memory on 64 bit: It is . Net GC heaps
On 64 bit window 2003/2008 servers as soon as you give any .Net (.aspx) resource requests you would...
Date: 03/30/2012
IIS 7.x: When kernelCachePolicy is set to DontCache, Static content would be still cache in http.sys
When setting Kernel mode cache via Output Cache module in IIS7.x , you can have any of following...
Date: 03/28/2012
Why you should not use System.Drawing from ASP.NET applications
Probably you would heard it many times and it is quite evident from the MSDN article...
Date: 03/23/2012
How to change GC flavor[from Server mode to WorkStation Mode] for dllhost.exe
When you have a Managed COM+ component written in C# class library and hosted on to DLLHOST.EXE By...
Date: 03/19/2012
Microsoft GTSC India Developers Support hiring for ASP.NET / BizTalk / SharePoint engineers
Yes , We're hiring again!!...
Date: 03/19/2012
ASP.Net 4.0 Performance Monitoring feature
Read it here https://www.asprangers.com/post/2012/03/08/ASPNet-4-Performance-Monitoring-feature.aspx
Date: 03/08/2012
Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta Download
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Date: 02/29/2012
Stream rendering failing for (PDF/Excel/Docs) after MS11-100 patch from Aspx pages
New post on Stream rendering failing for PDF Excel Docs after MS11-100 patch from Aspx pages...
Date: 01/24/2012
How to Debug Handle leak (using !htrace) in w3wp.exe
How to Debug Handle leak (using !htrace) in w3wp.exe...
Date: 01/23/2012
IIS 7x Different ways in which Kernel Mode Cache would be flushed.aspx
New Post on the block...
Date: 01/20/2012
All about Security Advisory MS11-100
Hope this helps you :) All About Security Advisory...
Date: 01/18/2012
Classic ASP : intermittently some ASP pages start failing with Page cannot be displayed error on browser
Helping my colleague- Mohammed on the issue where intermittently some of the asp pages start failing...
Date: 09/21/2010
Browsing CWA ending up with blank white page on IIS 7
Helping one of colleague from CWA team on the issue where browsing any static content[htm/jpg] is...
Date: 08/11/2010
USING ADPLUS SCRIPT TO CAPTURE MEMORY DUMP ON STACKOVERFLOW AND NullReferenceException
It took me some time to figure out how to get appropriate dump on 64 bits boxes using adplus tool....
Date: 08/11/2010
Using Microsoft.web.administration to print out applications in appPool and Appdomain in worker process
Quickly helping my collegue-Isha in getting the count of applications in the given apppool [Crude...
Date: 07/21/2010
HOW TO DUMP OUT GUID VALUE FROM THE MEMORY DUMP
Quick post on how to dump out GUID value from the memory dump Fields: ...
Date: 07/15/2010
Visual Studio 2010 features
Check out new Post on Visual Studio 2010 feature on our team blog : webtopics ...
Date: 05/13/2010
IIS 7: SSL binding getting lost/Deleted unexpectedly
On the IIS 7 sometime you would find the SSL binding for the website has been deleted and not...
Date: 05/10/2010
New post !address –summary explained
Hi, Today,I just wrote on !address –summary on webtopics.. Read More Enjoy!
Date: 04/02/2010
Issue(s) with PDF rendering on iis 7.5
Recently we have got many issue(s) reported while opening PDF file which are hosted on IIS 7.5...
Date: 03/26/2010