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Physical Directories vs. MVC View Paths
April 05, 2012 @ 2:38 pm

Physical directories that map paths that are also mapped by ASP.NET MVC routes can cause some consternation, especially if you're not aware that there's pathing overlap between the two. This post is a story about an operator error episode of an accidental file move that took a while to trace down due physical path interference.

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Built-in GZip/Deflate Compression on IIS 7.x
May 05, 2011 @ 1:42 am

IIS 7.x makes content compression via GZip very easy. Here's how compression on IIS works and how you can set it up on your server in a few simple steps.

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ASP.NET GZip Encoding Caveats
May 02, 2011 @ 3:17 am

GZip and Deflate compression is easy to use in ASP.NET applications, but there are a few caveats that you need to watch out for. This post reviews the basics of implementing compression in ASP.NET code and describes a couple of scenarios that can cause problems when using programmatic compression via Response.Filter.

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Error on 64 Bit Install of IIS – LoadLibraryEx failed on aspnet_filter.dll
April 04, 2011 @ 1:07 pm

Ran into a problem on my 64 bit machine with IIS trying to load 32 bit dlls. Turns out this is a misconfiguration that occurred from some additional installation that failed to set a specific bitness valuie and pointed to 32 bit install. Here's what happened and how it got fixed.

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ASP.NET Routing not working on IIS 7.0
March 27, 2011 @ 1:14 pm

Got caught be a difference in behavior between IIS 7.0 and IIS 7.5 with how module management to extensionless URLs are fired in IIS. Routing was working fine on my dev machine, but not on my live server. Here's what you need to watch out for.

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Microsoft Introduces WebMatrix
August 17, 2010 @ 3:44 pm

Microsoft recently released a preview of WebMatrix a tool geared towards hobby/non-developer types to build Web applications. This all in one environment is supposed to simplify Web development with having to be an expert. In this post I review some of the interesting features and how they stack up.

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HttpModule and HttpHandler sections in IIS 7 web.config files
October 10, 2007 @ 12:21 pm

Moving between IIS 5/6 and IIS 7 often causes some web.config conflict between the system.web and system.webserver handler and module sections. IIS 7 expects its handlers and modules defined only in its configuration section - if you still have handlers in system.web a configuration error occurs. Here's a useful switch that lets you turn off validation of system.web handlers and modules so you can ship web.config files that contain both.

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