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Caution when stopping and starting an IIS application pool with appcmd

When starting and stopping IIS 7 application pools from command line with appcmd.exe, you should be aware of a behavior that can sometimes lead to unintended circumstances. To explain it, lets first review what happens when you stop an application pool Read More...

Posted 12 May 10 12:24 by Mike Volodarsky | 9 Comments   
Filed under AppCmd, IIS, IIS 7.0

When to restart IIS when making changes to your application

Knowing when to restart IIS to pick up various types of changes to your application has traditionally been a challenge. IIS and ASP.NET are both stateful software systems, which heavily rely on cached state that is loaded once to provide high performance. Read More...

Posted 12 September 08 02:02 by Mike Volodarsky | 8 Comments   
Filed under IIS7, Development, Troubleshooting, ASP.NET, AppCmd, IIS

Trace IIS 7.0 Errors Like a Pro with Failed Request Tracing

When dealing with hard to find IIS 7.0 errors, I break out the trusty Failed Request Tracing. My favorite way of doing this is through the command line Read More...

Posted 01 August 08 12:25 by Mike Volodarsky | 9 Comments   
Filed under IIS7, Troubleshooting, Tools, AppCmd, IIS

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- ASP.NET 2.0 Breaking Changes on IIS 7.0
- Develop IIS7 modules and handlers with .NET
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- Troubleshooting 503 / "service unavailable" errors
- Troubleshooting "server not found" errors
- Create IIS7 sites, applications, and virtual directories
- Run Ruby on Rails with IIS FastCGI
- VS Debugging of ASP.NET applications on Windows Vista
- Stop hot-linking with IIS and ASP.NET

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