Month: July 2007
Troubleshoot IIS7 errors like a pro
So you just moved your application to an IIS7 server, and now you are getting an error when you make a request to it. This seems to be a popular theme on IIS.NET forums these days, and after answering a hundred or so of these posts, I figured I should do something to help people … [Read more…]
Anatomy of an IIS7 configuration path
If you have worked with IIS6 and previous versions of IIS, you are most likely familiar with the IIS metabase paths. You know, the ones that look like LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT. These metabase paths serve as a mechanism to identify a part of the IIS website hierarchy, or a url therein, for the purposes of read/writing their … [Read more…]
OleView freezes / hangs forever on Windows Vista
If you are working with COM and using OleView.exe on Windows Vista to view type libraries, you may notice that the tool hangs forever when trying to open a type library from a file or resource in a DLL. I’ve encountered this problem myself on every Vista box I’ve tried it on, and have seen … [Read more…]