We put together a fun infographic to compare using the debugger vs. a profiler for troubleshooting slow page loads in ASP.NET apps. This coincides with our recent release of LeanSentry’s slow operation tracking, which provides an lighter (and more informative) alternative to either. Here it is: What do you use currently? Do you agree with … [Read more…]
Want to learn how to troubleshoot IIS website hangs the way Microsoft developers do it? Check out the new IIS hang troubleshooting guide.
Did you know there are 5 places where ASP.NET requests can become queued on an IIS server? Learn all about these queues, and how to identify the actual queued requests!
Performance counters are a wonderful tool when it comes to quickly assessing system health and performance of Windows subsystems. In addition to learning much about the operation of Microsoft products, exposing performance counters from your own code can be extremely valuable for the very same reasons. We do this a lot for LeanServer code – … [Read more…]
I’ve blogged quite a bit about using Visual Studio to develop and debug IIS 7.0 applications in the past. A few weeks back, I put together a detailed article about using Visual Studio 2008 to work with IIS 7.0 applications, collecting all the various how-to and gotchas in one place. Now, you can find the … [Read more…]
In the past, I’ve blogged a number of times about using Visual Studio to develop and debug IIS 7.0 applications. I am happy to say that Visual Studio 2008 has added a number of improvements to work better with IIS 7.0, making it a lot easier to use it to develop, deploy, and debug those applications … [Read more…]
********************************************************************** UPDATE – 4/8/2008 I’ve collected the various how-tos and gotchas about using Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 with IIS 7.0 applications into two detailed articles:Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0Using Visual Studio 2008 with IIS 7.0Be sure to check them out for detailed info on working with both local and remote IIS … [Read more…]
A Visual Studio patch that fixes the Visual Studio F5 debugging of IIS7 applications on Windows Vista Home Premium and above has been released! This patch solves the “An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server. Please see Help for assistance.”, and “Debugging failed because integrated Windows authentication is not enabled. Please see … [Read more…]
********************************************************************** UPDATE – 4/8/2008 I’ve collected the various how-tos and gotchas about using Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 with IIS 7.0 applications into two detailed articles:Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0Using Visual Studio 2008 with IIS 7.0Be sure to check them out for detailed info on working with both local and remote IIS … [Read more…]