The Way I See It
Techno gyan by Vijayshinva Karnure - Support Escalation Engineer (Microsoft)
Using Themes in ASP.NET loads System.Drawing namespace
Using the System.Drawing namespace is strongly discouraged in ASP.NET as it leads to a lot of...
Author: Shinva Date: 09/01/2008
Limiting Passive FTP Port Range on IIS 7.0 / IIS 6.0 / IIS 5.0
Passive FTP uses a range of ports to transfer data. This can be a problem because the port range...
Author: Shinva Date: 05/13/2008
The lone System.OutOfMemoryException in your memory dump
I was recently asked ... Every time you run !dumpallexceptions ( !dae ) you will find that there is...
Author: Shinva Date: 05/04/2008
MachineKeys For IIS 7.0
IIS uses MachineKeys for encryption. IIS 6.0 uses a particular key...
Author: Shinva Date: 05/01/2008
ISSUE : SMTP Configuration - Unspecified Error
A new SMTP related issue has been brought to our notice and we are currently working on fixing it....
Author: Shinva Date: 04/14/2008
The ASP.NET - IIS Support Team has a new Weblog
The ASP.NET - IIS support team has started a new weblog https://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics and I am one...
Author: Shinva Date: 04/14/2008
Automatically Email PowerShell session transcript
How about automatically logging your entire PowerShell session and getting the transcript in an...
Author: Shinva Date: 04/08/2008
Where is ASP.NET 3.5 on IIS ?
Most people on installing .NET 3.5 on the server "expect" an entry for v3.5 under the ASP.NET...
Author: Shinva Date: 03/20/2008
Object.ReferenceEquals(valueVar, valueVar) will always return false
The ReferenceEquals method is usually used to determine if two objects are the same instance. But...
Author: Shinva Date: 03/18/2008
Internet Explorer 8 Activity Provider - Search MSDN Blogs
Everyone who tuned in to MIX '08 should be knowing that the BETA version of Internet Explorer 8 is...
Author: Shinva Date: 03/07/2008
Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS ... Cont'd
This is a continuation of my previous post Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OSHere...
Author: Shinva Date: 02/20/2008
Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS
Windows Server 2008 is the best OS to be released till date from Microsoft's stable. And the moment...
Author: Shinva Date: 02/11/2008
Anatomy of ASP.NET Forms Authentication Return URL
Consider you are browsing an asp.net web application that uses forms authentication and you are...
Author: Shinva Date: 01/24/2008
WinDbg Scripting - Dump column names from a data table
Windbg provides a nice scripting mechanism with which we can automate repetitive tasks. It is seldom...
Author: Shinva Date: 01/15/2008
Adding Icons to your custom IIS 7.0 Manager UI Modules
There is a lot of enthusiasm around building IIS UI modules that show up in the IIS Manager. The...
Author: Shinva Date: 12/19/2007
IIS 7.0 - IIS Manager Module to scan for assemblies built in debug mode
Often assemblies are built in debug mode and deployed on production servers causing performance...
Author: Shinva Date: 12/17/2007
Preventing ildasm from disassembling your assembly
The MSIL Disassembler (ildasm.exe) is a neat tool that can be used to view the MSIL code of a .Net...
Author: Shinva Date: 12/05/2007
IIS 7.0 - Seven goof ups in IIS 7
The way I see it here are seven goof ups that will most likely make it to the shipped product. FYI...
Author: Shinva Date: 11/26/2007
IIS 6.0 - FastCGI
CGI application were discouraged on IIS webservers because for every request a new host process had...
Author: Shinva Date: 11/16/2007
SOS your Visual Studio
If you as a developer are interested in taking quick peeks into memory allocation you can load SOS...
Author: Shinva Date: 11/15/2007
Orchestrating Kerberos Authentication .... SPN Cheat Sheet
When it comes to orchestrating Kerberos authentication on IIS websites most people get it wrong when...
Author: Shinva Date: 10/19/2007
Visual Studio Debugging websites that require client certificates
Just when I was too confident about my Visual Studio F5 skills I encountered the devil :) Not a very...
Author: Shinva Date: 10/17/2007
IIS 6.0 Recovering websites from a stale metabase.xml
The metabase is a repository for most IIS configuration settings. It resides as a plaintext XML file...
Author: Shinva Date: 05/29/2007
A tryst with MSIL
Any ASP.NET developer should be knowing that when his/her .NET application is compiled, the...
Author: Shinva Date: 11/30/2006
Enter the Leo!
Vijay jumps on the blogging bandwagon. Let's see how this works out... I guess that I should start...
Author: Shinva Date: 11/14/2006