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Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

by Max Paulousky

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

Hadoop For .Net & AngularJS Developers

by Bert O Neill

Query Hadoop using Microsoft oriented technologies (C#, SSIS, SQL Server, Excel etc.)

IIS 7 deployment: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET

by Monjurul Habib

How to: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET.

Using .NET and PHP to create an extensible WebDAV server

by Bill Seddon

Shows how a .NET based WebDAV server can be created by combining two Open Source projects. The example implementation returns files from a file system, but you can extend it to return resources from any repository.

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Web Farms: Identifying the Node that Served a Request.

by Lance Ford

Use an IIS module to identify the node that served a request in a web farm environment.

Override Date, Time, Currency and Number Formats in ASP.NET Applications

by Lance Ford

Step-by-step guide to enable an ASP.NET web application to override date, time, currency and number formats.

Add HTTP Request/Response Logging to an ASP.NET Framework Web Application With No Code

by Lance Ford

A walkthrough to enable request/response logging to an ASP.NET web application (or web service) by using an IIS module.

Installing Microsoft Web Deploy on Windows 7

by ToughDev

How to install Microsoft Web Deploy on Win7

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Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

27 Nov 2009 by Max Paulousky

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Hadoop For .Net & AngularJS Developers

29 Dec 2015 by Bert O Neill

Query Hadoop using Microsoft oriented technologies (C#, SSIS, SQL Server, Excel etc.)

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.NET-Compiler-Platform

Using .NET and PHP to create an extensible WebDAV server

31 Oct 2007 by Bill Seddon

WCF by Example - Chapter VII - Decoupling of WCF Services from the ViewModel

11 Oct 2011 by Enrique Albert

Baseline WCF Distribution Layer - Decoupling of WCF Services and ViewModels.

Build ReST based Web Services in .NET/C#

12 Jul 2009 by Parag.Gadkari

A ReST based Web Service for C#.

Amazon Web Services part 1 - How to deploy a load balanced web site

23 Mar 2015 by Matt Perdeck

Quickly create a load balanced web site in the cloud with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Powerful IIS/Apache Monitoring Dashboard using ElasticSearch+Grafana

29 May 2016 by Omar Al Zabir

Use ElasticSearch and Grafana to build powerful and beautiful dashboards. Monitor and analyze IIS/Apache logs in near real time

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Elasticsearch

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HTTP Binary Serialization through ASP.NET without WCF

15 Aug 2009 by Ricardo Pineda Then

Shows how to serialize an object using binary serialization without using WCF.

WCF by Example - Chapter XIV - Validation & Exception Management

25 Oct 2012 by Enrique Albert

WPF Validation using the IDataErrorInfo interface combined with Validation attributes

How to correlate IIS, Application and SQL Server Audit logs to achieve full stack audit.

5 Sep 2016 by Z Kavtaskin

4 server logs you need to know to troubleshoot failed ASP.NET requests

22 Jan 2017 by Matt Watson (Stackify)

Learn about the 4 various log sources you need to know when tracking down ASP.NET request errors.

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Developing Non-ASP.NET Websites running under IIS

9 Jul 2017 by Marc Clifton

Discovering some of the nuances of IIS and looking under the hood at how Katana/Owin does its initialization.

How to extract overlapped polygons and calculate the overlapped area and write an API for it?

21 Oct 2017 by mahmood kabi

extract overlapped polygons and calculate the overlapped area and write an API for it

Retrieve an HTML Page from Within Your (ASP-)Scripts Without Any Components

28 Aug 2001 by Uwe Keim

Tiny little Perl library to retrieve an arbitrary URL as a string

Deploying your Own Website Files in Windows Azure

20 Apr 2014 by Kristian Guevara

This article shows on how to upload your own web files (html, css, etc) through FTP and deploy them in Windows Azure

Putting WCF to Work

14 Jan 2016 by Asher Barak, Itiel Beeri

Infrastructure for large scale WCF services layer development

IIS Web Log Hit Counter

8 Sep 2016 by Mehedi Shams

Counting hits of the sites that run through IIS, using IIS logs

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IIS

Dev

Optimising hierarchical SQL structures (an ASP approach)

15 Oct 2001 by Ciprian Miclaus

An article on how to improve SQL hierarchies

Change Local IIS Home Path from Explorer Context Menu

1 Sep 2008 by Sean Rock

Change local IIS home path from explorer context menu

Drupal on Windows - Easier Done than Said

4 Oct 2010 by Laurence Moroney-MSFT

How to install Drupal on Windows with IIS

Windows

PHP

IIS

What’s New in WCF 4.5? Improved Streaming in IIS Hosting

3 Feb 2012 by Ido Flatow

Improved streaming in IIS hosting

JavaScript for Windows server side.

27 Oct 2014 by Emmet M

Using JavaScript in Windows shell and Windows Web server (IIS).

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Windows

IIS

Insecure Transport – Missing Public Key Pinning

30 May 2018 by Bryian Tan

HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP)

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IIS

Create local SSL website with self signed certificate

17 Jul 2016 by Suraj Pant

In this post we will discuss a quickest way to create a secure website with self signed certificate.

Deploying an Angular 8 Application with Web API ASP.NET Core 2.2

22 Jan 2020 by Flávio Henrique de Carvalho

This is a practical article that serves with a guide of steps describing problems and solutions found when deploying an application with an ASP.NET Core backend and Angular frontend, aimed at developers and other beginner professionals.

Storing and Retrieving Binary Data in ISAPI Extensions

5 Sep 2002 by Dirk Vandenheuvel

An easy way to store and retrieve binary data in an ISAP DLL and display them on a web page

TFS Proxy Efficiency Testing

26 Sep 2008 by Max Paulousky

This article describes MS TFS Proxy efficiency testing depending on the internet channel rate between TFS and TFS Proxy, TFS commands, and TFS Proxy cache state. Also, this article describes the advantages of using the MS TFS Proxy on slow Internet channels.

PHP + Microsoft Overview

26 Oct 2009 by dougturn

An overview of the Microsoft interoperability story for Open Source community and PHP Developers.

Customization of Basic Http Authentication

8 Apr 2016 by Maxim Komlev

Suppression of Browser dialog of Basic Http Authentication and customization

Static Website Using Docker

10 Aug 2018 by Caleb McElrath

Create a Docker Container to serve static web content that can be viewed from a browser

Fundamentals of Web Site Acceleration

24 Mar 2004 by Joe Lima and Port80

This paper outlines a common sense, cost-effective approach to lowering total cost of ownership and improving Web site and Web application performance.

Profiling the Performance of a .NET Application

10 May 2007 by Paul Glavich

ANTS Profiler provides you with a quick and easy way of identifying performance bottlenecks within your .NET applications. Additional support for the latest .NET 3.0 features, the Vista operating system, and Visual Studio integration, cements ANTS Profiler as a leading tool in performance profiling.

Meet Microsoft Popfly: Part I - Mashup App Creator Built On Silverlight

2 Jun 2007 by CJCraft.com

Learn more about the Mashup creator, Popfly space, and the Web page creator.

IMSL® C# with Excel and VSTO: An Introduction and Walkthrough

7 Jan 2008 by Visual Numerics, Inc.

This document focuses on the combination of VSTO 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition.

Routing with Windows Communication Foundation : Part 2 - Extending web.config

13 Mar 2008 by Paul Reeder

Implementing a custom configuration for routing rules

#1 iPhone Teaching Site Scales Up and Down on Mosso

9 Sep 2008 by Mosso Hosting Cloud

After experiencing scaling issues with their previous hosting provider, the founders of the #1 iPhone tutorial site turned to Mosso, Rackspace’s cloud hosting division, because of the company’s tech support, scalability and affordability.

How to Configure SSL Certificate for SharePoint Web Application on IIS7/Window Server 2008

27 Nov 2009 by Syed Adnan Ahmed

The configuration of SSL certificate on IIS 7 (Windows Server 2008) is bit different than in IIS 6. This article describes the steps required to configure SSL certificate on SharePoint Central Admin web site.

Handling 301 Redirects in ASP.NET 3.5

8 Mar 2011 by Frank Kerrigan

Handling 301 Redirects in ASP.NET form basic page control to HHTP modules

Introducing the Rabbit Framework and its Dynamic Idea

23 Mar 2011 by Yiyi Sun

Rabbit Framework is a new lightweight framework for building web sites using ASP.NET Web Pages / WebMatrix. This article describes one interesting idea out of many found in the framework.

Deployment

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Deployment continues to get easier, but there's still a few gotchas here and there. Check out these choice articles for you deployment

Windows Authentication

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

From MSDN: "The WindowsAuthenticationModule provider relies on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) to provide authenticated users, using

IIS Optimization

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Some optimizations can be done directly to IIS and you will reap improvements farther down the line.Planning, testing and tuning for ASP.NET and

Migrating ASP.NET Applications to IIS 7 Integrated Mode

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Introduction There had been much discussion on how to make your application compatible with the IIS7 Integrated mode. To know how to make your

ASP.NET Session States in SQLServer for multiuser and loadbalancing solution

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

This topic is for those who want to manage multi server websites and load balancing.Prerequisites:IIS 6.0 or higher.NET Framework 2.0,

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Optimize Web Server and SQL Server Performance

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

links:Optimize Web Server Performance in Windows Server 2003Optimizing IIS 6.0 Performance Top Ten Ways To Pump Up IIS PerformanceIIS Performance

Session State - The Basics

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

This is a broad topic so I’ll try to spare too many details and give you basics. DefinitionsSession Timeout: Get and sets the amount of time,

Cloud over IFileSystemInfo Extension (Cofe3) - Part I

17 Oct 2013 by Leung Yat Chun

Framework library for designing RESTful home cloud services using an FSI like interface.

Cloud over IFileSystemInfo extension (Cofe3) - Part II

16 Oct 2013 by Leung Yat Chun

Framework library for designing RESTful home cloud services using FSI like interface.

Template Messaging Framework

5 Aug 2015 by _Asif_

Framework helps resolve Template Codes present in any text at Runtime

Why and how we migrated babylon.js to Azure: CORS, gzip, and IndexedDB

17 Jun 2015 by David Rousset

In this tutorial, I want to humbly use one of our more recent “success stories” around our WebGL open-source gaming framework, babylon.js and its website: babylonjs.com.

Add HTML5 Document Viewer to ASP.NET MVC 5 Project

1 Oct 2015 by LEADTOOLS Support

This “How To” adds document viewing with page thumbnail navigation and full page view to an ASP.NET MVC 5 project.

Mobile 1D/2D Barcode Reader Using HTML5 and ASP.NET

26 Apr 2016 by Dynamsoft

Building mobile apps, many developers hesitate on platform priority, iOS or Android. If you do not want to waste time learning the new programming languages (Swift or Java) you can opt for web technology. The article will show how to make a mobile barcode reader based on Browser/Server architecture.

Webcam Barcode Scanner with HTML5 and Web Browser

16 May 2016 by Dynamsoft

How to build a webcam barcode scanner for cloud service?Deploy Dynamic Barcode Reader SDK to your web servers (IIS, Apache, Nginx, etc.). Continuously capture images from your webcam in any HTML5-supported webbrowsers and send base64-encoded image data to the cloud barcode service fordetection.

To Heap or not to Heap; That’s the Large Object Question?

11 Jul 2017 by Doug Duerner, Yeon-Chang Wang

In this article we explored a theory; would it be better to not utilize a heap construct when dealing with very large objects in .NET, in order to avoid Large Object Heap (LOH) fragmentation?

Web API Thoughts 2 of 3 - Working with HTTPS

24 Nov 2014 by Wonde Tadesse

ASP.NET Web API related projects. It touches most parts of the technology through the articles on Data Streaming, Working with HTTPS and Extending Web API Documentation.

ASCII Art Generator

28 May 2007 by Sau Fan Lee

ASCII Art generator in ASP.NET.

MCMS Manager

11 Jul 2005 by Chester Ragel

A tool which can be used to do common tasks which Microsoft Content Management Server API provides.

Switching Between HTTP and HTTPS Like A Bigshot Hotshot

22 Feb 2010 by Pero Matić

How to automatically enforce and switch between secure (HTTPS/SSL) and non-secure (HTTP/non-SSL) web pages without hard-coding absolute URLs, using SEO friendly redirects.

Removing HTML from the text in ASP

27 Sep 2000 by Konstantin Vasserman

Exploring the options of removing HTML tags from the text in ASP.

WCF by Example - Chapter III - Response

24 Oct 2012 by Enrique Albert

WCF service response message patterns

Reading a text file in ASP.

18 Mar 2009 by Chris Maunder

How to read a text file on a server using VBScript in ASP

Windows XP IIS Manager v1.7

16 Mar 2005 by Max Santos

This article presentes a way of creating and managing multiple sites on the Windows XP IIS.

WCF by Example - Chapter VIII - WPF Client - Relay Command

11 Oct 2011 by Enrique Albert

WPF ICommand implementation based on Josh Smith's pattern.

Debugging ASP.NET Core Applications within IIS

28 Feb 2019 by Chris A. Johnson

Debugging within IIS provides a smoother development process without having to think about whether your webserver is running or not.

YouConf - Your Live Online Conferencing Tool

17 Nov 2013 by Phil Lee NZ

A site for managing and delivering virtual conferences - complete with embedded live streaming and chat. Showcasing the best Azure has to offer!

WCF by Example - Chapter V - Contexts

23 Oct 2012 by Enrique Albert

Global and Request context pattern for server side resources

Creating Pivot Tables and Charts Using ActiveX

20 Jan 2008 by Sushant Joshi

This article describes how to generate Excel at client side and embedd "Pivot Tables" and "Charts" into the Excel.

Asynchronous IO within ISAPI Modules

3 May 2000 by Mike Junkin

How to use asynchronous IO to send data from an ISAPI module

htmlArea - Turn Any TEXTAREA into a WYSIWYG Editor

6 May 2003 by Fraser Cain

htmlArea is a free WYSIWYG editor replacement forTEXTAREA fields on web forms

Effective paging with List View control in ASP.NET

9 Nov 2012 by Abdul Quader Mamun

To develop scalable applications, effective paging is essential. Devoid of smart and effective paging and sorting to handle thousands of thousand data takes extra time and system resources.

Package that speeds up loading of JavaScript, CSS and image files

29 Mar 2012 by Matt Perdeck

Improves web site performance by combining and minifying JavaScript and CSS files on the fly. Processes ASP.NET AJAX toolkit .axd files too. Improves image caching and loading. Very easy to add to any ASP.NET web site.

State management and ways to handle Cache in a Web Farm/Web Garden scenario

13 Apr 2011 by Brij

This article gives a brief idea about state management and discusses the variuos approcahes for handling it in a Web Farm/Web Garden scenario.

Polyglot Persistence Using DDD and Repository Unit of Work

22 Apr 2015 by lakhdarr

Working with different data stores (SQL, NoSQL ..) in high performance enterprise application using DDD and Repository unit of work pattern

Web API Thoughts 3 of 3 - Extending Web API Documentation

9 Feb 2015 by Wonde Tadesse

ASP.NET Web API related projects. It touches most parts of the technology through the articles on Data Streaming, Working with HTTPS and Extending Web API Documentation.

Parent/Child (Hierarchical) Relational Treeview User Control Development in ASP.NET

14 Aug 2012 by Abdul Quader Mamun

Custom TreeView web user control for parent child relatioinal data upto infinity

Upload and convert PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Word to HTML on ASP.NET

28 Dec 2012 by Don Ashworth

Upload a Microsoft Office Power Point, Excel, Visio, or Word File to webserver, of which will be converted to HTML and hosted as a document link on the page in which it was uploaded.

Simplest Possible ASP.NET Web API Project that Implements IoC/DI using Castle Windsor

15 Jan 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Create the simplest possible ASP.NET Web API app that uses Castle Windsor for DI in 23 pretty easy steps

A small C# Class for impersonating a User

11 Apr 2005 by Uwe Keim

Introduced a class that simplifies Windows Impersonation in C#.

sBlog.Net - A Minimalistic Blog Engine - Using ASP.NET MVC 3

16 Aug 2013 by Karthik. A

sBlog.Net is a minimalistic blog engine created using the ASP.NET MVC 3 framework.

WCF by Example - Chapter X - Dependency Injection with Spring.Net

14 Oct 2011 by Enrique Albert

How to use Spring.Net DI reducing coupling and enhancing automated testing.

ASP.NET Core RC2 Using WEB API And AngularJS - Part 1

20 Jun 2016 by Toan Manh Nguyen

In this article you will learn about ASP.NET Core RC2 using WEB API and AngularJS.

CAPTCHA Image in PHP

23 Feb 2009 by Mohammad Dayyan

This article demonstrates how we can create a CAPTCHA image with PHP

ASP.NET Zip Entry Handler

8 May 2008 by Jake Morgan

Deploy zip files to your web application and serve compressed files directly out of the zip file.

ASP.NET Ajax Under-the-hood Secrets

5 Mar 2008 by Omar Al Zabir

Performance tips and hard-core tricks that change core runtimes, not for the faint-hearted

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

30 Jan 2008 by Omar Al Zabir

10 easy ways to make ASP.NET and AJAX websites faster, more scalable and support more traffic at lower cost

Creating a WIX Installer for ASP.NET Web Applications

12 Nov 2010 by Petr Pechovic

Example of creating a WIX installer for an ASP.NET Web application.

Visual Studio Add-In for Web Parts Generation

19 Jan 2009 by Sasa Popovic

A Visual Studio add-in that allows generation of Web Parts based on prepared ASCX controls/templates.

Applying Robustness Analysis on the Model–View–Controller (MVC) Architecture in ASP.NET Framework, using UML

22 Aug 2004 by Shams Mukhtar

This article will enhance your vision on the usage of Robustness Analysis in conjunction with Model View Controller, using UML with application in ASP.NET. This article is a sequel to my articles on Architecture and Design with ASP.NET.

WCF by Example - Chapter VI - WPF Client - Baseline

23 Oct 2012 by Enrique Albert

Baseline WCF Client application using the MVVM pattern

Understanding CGI with C#

27 Jan 2005 by Justin Williams

Leveraging the Common Gateway Interface in C#.

Mobile Application Development in ASP.NET

9 Apr 2010 by Abdul Quader Mamun

ASP.NET provide features to develop appllication for mobile devices. System.Web.Mobile namespace is devoted specifically to mobile Web development.

Deploying Web Applications using Team Foundation Build Server – Part 1

8 Jul 2014 by mkalos

Learn how to configure Team Foundation Server for automated web deployment.

Windows Azure Development Deep Dive: Working With Configuration

14 Mar 2010 by Steven Nagy

Learning effective techniques to utilise configuration in your cloud apps, without locking into the Azure platform

Configuring IIS, ASP.NET, and SQL Server

29 Oct 2013 by Juan Davel

This article is an updated one discussing the configuration of IIS, ASP.NET and SQL Server.

Duplex Web Services

26 Jun 2008 by Boaz Davidoff

Using multi-threading techniques to create a duplex (two-way) web service that can push events/messages to the client.

RESTful SignalR Service

27 Oct 2015 by Wonde Tadesse

An article that explain hows to expose SignalR feature through an ASP.NET Web API, which helps applications that can use REST service and to broadcast a real-time message to their clients.

Deploying WCF and Silverlight Applications on IIS 5 and 7

6 Jan 2012 by Vijeth C R