March 2011 - Posts

Open Source + Southern Hospitality by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I spent the entire week last week enjoying some good weather and southern hospitality in the Carolinas. On Tuesday Mar 15 I had the pleasure of being invited to present at the Charlotte Enterprise Developers Guild organized by Bill Jones (special thanks...

Application Request Routing and Proxy Chain by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

It is pretty common to run ARR as a proxy behind another proxy in a corporate environment and I've been asked how ARR can be configured in such an environment. This practice is also known as "proxy chaining" where one proxy is "chained"...
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March 2011 IIS Community Newsletter is published by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I'm excited to announce our March 2011 IIS Community Newsletter is published Here is the link to the March 2011 edition - http://www.iisnewsletter.com/archive/march2011.html Sign-up for IIS Community Newsletter http://www.iisnewsletter.com Cheers...
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Why is Application Request Routing Version 2.5 available only via Web Platform Installer? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Within hours of Application Request Routing Version 2.5 release (see announcement here ), I've been asked why ARRv2.5 is available only via WebPI. Well, a simple response would be that WebPI is the way to consume web technology applications and components...
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Enabling dynamic compression (gzip, deflate) for WCF Data Feeds, OData and other custom services in IIS7 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I'm working on a thing that uses an HttpWebRequest to talk to a backend WCF Data Service and it'd be ideal if the traffic was using HTTP Compression (gzip, deflate, etc). On the client side, it's easy to just add code like this request.AutomaticDecompression...
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How to authenticate ONLY the encoder streams but not the clients for live smooth streaming? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

This question was asked quite a few times from our customers and on the media forum. The scenario is that I, as an site administrator, want to authenticate encoder streams that are pushing in for live smooth streaming. However, I don’t really want all...
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Java Access to SQL Azure via the JDBC Driver for SQL Server by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I’ve written a couple of posts ( here and here ) about Java and the JDBC Driver for SQL Server with the promise of eventually writing about how to get a Java application running on the Windows Azure platform. In this post, I’ll deliver on...
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Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 2.5 has been released. by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 2.5 has been released. Overview: Application Request Routing v2.5 improves the performance and the scalability of ARR in its disk caching scenarios . In addition to fully incorporating the enhancements...
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SiteServerDetails–Obtaining information about a server node in a web farm—Part 13 of 52 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

This week I cover a couple ways to obtain information about a specific server in a web farm.  How can you tell which node handled your page request? Often it’s valuable to know which node is currently being served for troubleshooting the load balancer...
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SiteServerDetails–Details for Web Farm Nodes by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Often times if you administer a web farm, or develop for a web farm, you want to know which node you’re currently on.  This is useful is you want to know if your load balancers are balancing with the algorithm that you expect, or if you want to troubleshoot...
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Configuration Editor–An Admin’s Best Friend by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Configuration Editor has to be one of my favorite pieces of the IIS7 UI, and probably one of the least publicized. For anyone who hasn’t used it, you should give it a whirl. In addition to allowing you to browse the config using a treeview style layout...
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Start-to-Finish Guidance for Windows Phone 7 Application Development by Silverlight SDK

If you are a C#/.NET developer who wants to learn the basics of phone application development using Silverlight, check out our new end-to-end guidance and sample application: Building a Windows Phone 7 Application from Start to Finish Fuel Tracker sample...
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.NET Rocks! Chats with Jean Paoli by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

For those of you who love .Net and have an interest in Web standards and Interoperability at Microsoft, then listening to the interview with Jean Paoli, the General Manager of Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft, with .NET Rocks!, is a must. .NET Rocks...
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WebMatrix launch failed, ERROR: IIS 7.5 Express could not be initialized by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

In this blog, we will have a look at one of the issues we face after a successful install of WebMatrix. WebMatrix fail to launch and the error it throws is “ IIS 7.5 Express could not be initialized. Please make sure that it is installed and configured...

RC of Entity Framework 4.1 (which includes EF Code First) by ScottGu's Blog

Last week the data team shipped the Release Candidate of Entity Framework 4.1.  You can learn more about it and download it here . EF 4.1 includes the new “EF Code First” option that I’ve blogged about several times in the past.  EF Code First...
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