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Ever since IIS7 shipped in Vista I’ve been asked the question: how can I install it on Windows XP? Until now, that hasn’t been possible. With the recent release of WebMatrix , you can now install IIS Developer Express – which is based on the...
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Today, we announced the beta version of WebMatrix, which includes a developer-focused version of IIS called IIS Developer Express. You can learn and download WebMatrix using the following links: http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/ http://weblogs.asp...
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Today my team launched an exciting new project called WebMatrix . Seamless, small and best of all free, WebMatrix includes a complete Web development stack that installs in minutes and elegantly integrates a Web server, database and programming...
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Developers today build and test ASP.NET sites and applications using one of two web-servers: The ASP.NET Development Server that comes built-into Visual Studio The IIS Web Server that comes built-into Windows Both of the above options have their pros...
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Visual Studio doesn’t have IntelliSense support for URL Rewrite by default. This isn’t a show stopper since it doesn’t result in stop errors. However, it’s nice to have full IntelliSense support and to get rid of the warnings for URL Rewrite rules...
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I believe I have it … I’ve been meaning to put together the ultimate outgoing rule for hosting multiple domains under one site. I finally sat down this week and setup a few test cases, and created one rule to rule them all. In Part I of this...
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Quick one today. I was just trying to publish some videos that I shot with my Google Nexus One. The media format of the videos is .3gp. When I tried to watch the video on my local IIS 7.5 machine I got a detailed 404.3 error message: I would have seen...
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DiscountASP.NET is one of the partner hosting providers with whom we work closely to provide high value Windows hosting. DiscountASP.NET offers one base hosting plan and add-on enhancements . Customers can choose either Windows 2008 or Windows 2003, with...
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Many-to-one Client certificate mapping is used by the Internet Information Services (IIS) to associate an end user to a windows account when the client certificate is used for the user authentication. The user session is executed under the context of...
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URL Rewrite is a powerful URL rewriting tool available for IIS7 and newer. Your rewriting options are almost unlimited, giving you the ability to optimize URLs for search engine optimization (SEO), support multiple domain names on a single site...
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any publically facing web-site. A large % of traffic to sites now comes directly from search engines, and improving your site’s search relevancy will lead to more users visiting your site from search...
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In my last blog on MaxESP , I talked about how Web hoster MaximumASP uses the free Application Request Routing IIS Web extension to power “elastic” scale for the MaxESP shared hosting service. As a Web server platform, IIS plays a role in many different...
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Application Request Routing (ARR) is a reverse proxy plug-in for IIS7+ that does many things, including functioning as a load balancer. For this post, I’m assuming that you already have an understanding of ARR. Today I wanted to find out how...
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If you seen my blog on Application Request Routing (ARR) v2 , you know I am a big fan of how ARR opens up new capabilities for IIS around application request routing , edge caching particularly in high definition media delivery , and Tomcat-type...
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If you are looking for an easy-to-use powerful way to control the behavior of URLs on your Web site without cracking the code of the Web app, you need to download and try URL Rewrite 2.0 . URL Rewrite 2.0 is an IIS7.x server extension, which means that...