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IIS Express, Rewrite rules, IE9, and a whole lotta fun

IIS Express is great for web developers. Being able to test things using a “proper” Web Server rather than Cassini with it’s quirks but without needing the hassle of running a full IIS setup is a great timesaver, and plus it means you have the ability to use additional IIS modules locally, such as the IIS Rewrite modules. Today I accidentally left a production ‘non www to www’ redirection rule enabled locally on a site I was working on, and so of course when I ran it up I was redirected through to www.localhost – I went and disabled...

posted @ Wednesday, May 18, 2011 9:45 PM | Feedback (0)

Using IIS7’s detailed errors

If you’ve had to do any work with IIS, deploying websites, or debugging deployment issues, then this may be something you already know – however I’ve been working with IIS7 for quite some time, and only came across a need for this fairly recently. I could have been lucky to not need this until now, however it’s something I wish I knew about sooner, as IIS7’s detailed errors are pretty handy for those 500/404 errors which make you go “Whuh?”. This is obviously something you won’t want to leave on all the time – it provides a...

posted @ Sunday, October 10, 2010 9:49 PM | Feedback (0)

IIS Express & New embedded database support - Why I love being busy

One thing I love about being incredibly busy is seeing new shiny stuff get released which you didn’t know was in the pipeline. Two small but recent examples of this are the new IIS Express and ASP.NET’s updated embedded database support. Although I need to sit down and give them both a proper test-drive, at first glance in both cases it really looks like the ASP.NET team listened to what the community was after. Introducing IIS Express – Cassini was convenient, but less than accurate in terms of how an application would perform in a proper IIS environment....

posted @ Sunday, July 04, 2010 11:29 PM | Feedback (0)

IIS application warm up module & VS2010 power tool extensions

A couple of slightly unrelated (they’re both Microsoft ish, but really that’s as far as it goes) but neat looking things: IIS 7.5 Application Warm-Up Module – a nice idea, being able to remove the spool up time for large applications, or indeed any application where user experience is important (that’s all of them, right?). Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions – contains some additional handy add-ins for Visual Studio 2010. A few of them are available already if you use ReSharper 5.0, but quite a few aren’t. Tags: Visual Studio, IIS

posted @ Tuesday, June 15, 2010 4:22 AM | Feedback (0)

A quick collection of useful .NET related links

LightSpeed 3.1 released – Eeek, I missed mentioning the release of fellow New Zealanders Mindscape as they released version 3.1 of their LightSpeed O/RM product last month. Some great looking features in there – obviously Visual Studio 2010 support is a must, but saved quick views into the model is something which has my mouth watering, and splitting large models into multiple files is a a nice feature too. Simplify, Shorten and Speed Up Your LINQ Statements with "Let" – a useful LINQ tip. A little bit of refactoring ahoy for me in a few places now I think....

posted @ Monday, June 07, 2010 4:25 AM | Feedback (0)

File under ‘u’ for ‘useful (and I for IIS)

You might not find this interesting now, or in fact, *ever*. But you can't deny that it has the potential to be very useful whilst you're troubleshooting your next major IIS related drama.. Description of default permissions and user rights for IIS 7.0 in Windows Server 2008 Tags: IIS

posted @ Wednesday, May 26, 2010 6:03 AM | Feedback (0)

Tweaking machine.config for production deployments

Tweaking .NET Machine.Config For Production Deployments is a useful summary post for anyone deploying ASP.NET applications to production who wants to do a bit of performance tweaking to IIS without spending too much time on it. Tags: IIS

posted @ Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:06 PM | Feedback (0)

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My name is Ross Hawkins and I'm a developer, consultant, business owner and writer based in Auckland, New Zealand (pictured below!). My current work revolves around ASP.NET, C#, jQuery, Ajax, SQL Server, and a mix of other Microsoft development technologies.

I also have about 15 years of experience with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and associated technologies. While Notes/Domino is no longer my primary focus I still like to dabble and keep my skills up to date.

I own and run 2 businesses - Hawkins Consulting Services, and Ignition Development.

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