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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.  They also recognize the downside of being stateful - having to refresh the state when ...

Since its release, IconHandler has been a pretty popular module (on its own and with the custom DirectoryListingModule).  Today, I am releasing v2.0 of IconHandler, which contains some much-requested functionality and fixes a few issues that people have reported with the original version.(I don’t RTFM, take me to download)Here are the ...

This month, the Enhance Your Apps With the Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline article is finally out in MSDN Magazine.  I just got several copies in the mail (thanks Howard!).****** UPDATE: Scott Hanselman presents the demos from this article at CodeMash 2008 ******To be honest, I am VERY excited about this article.  I’ve been talking and ...

ASP.NET 2.0 applications on IIS 7.0 are hosted using the ASP.NET Integrated mode by default.  This new mode enables a myriad of exciting scenarios including using super-valuable ASP.NET features like Forms Authentication for your entire Web site, and developing new ASP.NET modules to do things like URL rewriting, authorization, logging, and ...

This article, the first in the IIS7 .NET Developer series, focuses on getting started with developing IIS7 web server features based on the .NET Framework.  This article will demonstrate:1.       How to decide whether to develop an IIS7 module or an IIS7 handler.2.       How to ...

The HttpRedirection module allows you to configure regular expression-based rules that redirect clients from url A to url B using http redirection. When clients make a request to your server, and the url matches one of the redirection rules you have configured, the server will respond with a redirection response, telling the client to go to your ...

In a web application, it’s often necessary to redirect clients requesting one url to another url.  Here are some reasons why your application may need to do it:·         A part of your site should only be accessed over HTTPS to protect private data, so you want to redirect requests made ...

************************************************* (NEW) Update - 2/1/09: Clarified installation instructions (see post). Fixed bugs:  - Occasional icons missing / icons missing during heavy load due to MTA problems with SHGetFileInfo ...

************************************************* Update - 4/26/08: IconHandler 2.0 released.  ************************************************** Update - 1/20/2007: Use the IconHandler in conjunction with the DirectoryListingModule to set up a nice-looking directory listing for your IIS website, or create a your own directory listing ...

Apparently, my previous post of the LeechGuard hot-linking prevention module ended up with broken download and image links.  No-one could download the module, and on my home network I could see it just fine.  The funniest thing is that I found out about this from an internal email forward that referenced this module, and stated that it ...