Check and optimize your site speed

Here are two great resources for testing your site speed and getting tips on how to improve upon the performance: http://www.webpagetest.org/ ASP.NET Hosting – 3 Months Free – Click Here!! https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/

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MVC3, Visual Studio 2010: Error: Microsoft JScript runtime error: Not implemented

Okay, so I’ve started tinkering with MVC3 just to get familiar with what more-and-more people are working with now from a Windows Internet development perspective. I have a development/test VM running Windows Server 2008 R2 so I figured I’d install it there and walk-through some of the online tutorials. ASP.NET Hosting – 3 Months Free […]

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ASP.NET, Development/Coding, Hosting, MVC, tip, Troubleshooting

Log Parser: Pulling Valuable Data From IIS Logs

Microsoft’s Log Parser is an awesome tool that justifies knowledge, if not even regular use, by both system administrators and web users alike. From the download site: “Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key […]

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Securing ASP.Net Pages – Forms Authentication – C# and .Net 4

ASP.Net has a built-in feature named Forms Authentication that allows a developer to easily secure certain areas of a web site. In this post I’m going to build a simple authentication sample using C# and ASP.Net 4.0.

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ASP.NET, Development/Coding, Hosting

IIS7 Mime Mappings

For very good reasons, not all extensions are recognized by IIS by default and may return a 404 error when trying to access them from your site. If you have need to add more extensions to be “allowed” – for example if you have embedded font files – you have a few different options. One […]

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Need to take ownership of multiple files or folders in Windows Server 2008?

If you find yourself in a situation where you need to take ownership of a large number of files and/or folders – like after a data restore – you can either do it the tedious way using the properties dialog one file/folder at a time, or you can use TAKEOWN. TAKEOWN allows you to take […]

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System Administration, Windows

A Tip For Resolving Group Policy Error 0x8007000d

Rick Barber at OrcsWeb wrote a blog post about Resolving Group Policy Error 0x8007000d that might be helpful so I’m reposting here. Happy hosting!

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Auto-Format VS2010 Source Code

I had to dig up this handy tip earlier so figured I’d repost it – both for myself and for others looking to make their code cleaner without manually respacing and indenting everything. http://www.orcsweb.com/blog/brad/auto-format-vs2010-source-code/

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ASP.NET, Development/Coding, Visual Studio

URL Rewrite 301 Redirect For a Single Page

Want to set up a 301 redirect for a certain single page on your site to send users to a different URL? Below is a very simple web.config file I created on an IIS7 server to demonstrate performing this action. The rule looks for a URL of http://<yourdomain.com>/folder1/default.aspx and, if found, returns an HTTP Status code […]