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

Check Out Windows 8 : I wanna be commercial Ad Watch @ Asprangers.com

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

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

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