Mike Volodarsky's WebLog
Mike Volodarsky on web server infrastructure, IIS, ASP.NET, and other such animals
Creating portable ASP.NET applications that work on IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0 Classic, and IIS 7.0 Integrated modes
ASP.NET applications in IIS 7.0 Integrated mode requires configuration changes if they define custom...
Date: 04/15/2008
Just over a year after the we first announced the FastCGI, the final RTM version is here! Read more...
Date: 11/12/2007
The “Request is not available in this context” exception is one of the more common errors you may...
Date: 11/10/2007
The IIS 7 configuration system contains 50+ configuration sections (100+ if you count .NET Framework...
Date: 11/01/2007
During IIS7 development, I've written quite a few modules for IIS7 / ASP.NET. Some of these were for...
Date: 10/28/2007
IIS7 provides quite a few ways to create websites, applications, and application pools. You can use...
Date: 10/06/2007
I've haven't had a chance to post much over the past few weeks - its pretty frustrating at times to...
Date: 09/09/2007
This article, the first in the IIS7 .NET Developer series, focuses on getting started with...
Date: 08/16/2007
This weekend, I was working on an MSDN magazine article and happened to install PHP’s Wordpress blog...
Date: 08/13/2007
IIS7 configuration extensibility allows you to create custom configuration sections that can be used...
Date: 08/04/2007
Dealing with server errors can be frustruating. Thankfully, IIS7 comes with many improvements to...
Date: 07/27/2007
If you have worked with IIS6 and previous versions of IIS, you are most likely familiar with the IIS...
Date: 07/22/2007
If you are working with COM and using OleView.exe on Windows Vista to view type libraries, you may...
Date: 07/21/2007
In the course of IIS7 development, the team and I have answered an infinity of questions about IIS7...
Date: 07/12/2007
A Visual Studio patch that fixes the Visual Studio F5 debugging of IIS7 applications on Windows...
Date: 06/20/2007
As much as I hate to re-post someone else's content, I've been real busy in the past few weeks and...
Date: 06/19/2007
Check out the latest on the IIS FastCGI project, including the new IIS7 FastCGI in Longhorn server...
Date: 05/29/2007
In a web application, it’s often necessary to redirect clients requesting one url to another url. A...
Date: 05/24/2007
In a previous post titled Where did my IIS7 server go? Troubleshooting "service unavailable" errors,...
Date: 05/19/2007
The NT Performance team just publically released the latest version of WCAT (Web Capacity Analysis...
Date: 05/17/2007
The Server Beta 3 is a key release for IIS7 - we are probably one of the few if not the only team in...
Date: 04/26/2007
Welcome to the first post of the "Most Important AppCmd Commands" series. Have you ever made some...
Date: 03/19/2007
Usually, a day doesnt go by that I dont get a collegue or a partner team in Microsoft asking how to...
Date: 03/19/2007
Since the original tech preview release of FastCGI last year, we've been seeing a lot of requests...
Date: 02/18/2007
The march edition of MSDN magazine is live, containing my article about the IIS7 web server in...
Date: 02/14/2007
The much-anticipated PHP 5.2.1 has just been released.Read more about it on...
Date: 02/10/2007
After 3 months of community feedback and development, the FastCGI Techical Preview 2 has just been...
Date: 01/31/2007
Do you hate bland directory listing pages that most web servers have these days? Many of us do on...
Date: 01/21/2007
Do you like file icons? I do. They make it pretty easy to visually digest file lists in Windows,...
Date: 01/11/2007
A number of people have been reporting problems when trying to debug their ASP.NET applications on...
Date: 12/28/2006
For post #4 in the IIS7 Modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI series, let's take a look at another common pattern...
Date: 12/26/2006
I have finally finished moving my blog over to a self-hosted IIS7 server, where I can actually demo...
Date: 12/22/2006
Before hopping on the plane and starting my Thanksgiving vacation, here are some highlights about...
Date: 11/17/2006
Many web sites suffer from others directly linking to their image, video and other content. This...
Date: 11/10/2006
In my first ever blog post, I mentioned that my dream was to eventually self-host my blog on home...
Date: 11/08/2006
As you know, we released the FastCGI technical preview this week, aimed at providing a fast and...
Date: 11/03/2006
For post #3 in the IIS7 Modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI series, let’s look at one of the biggest trouble...
Date: 11/02/2006
After several weeks of silence on this topic, and lots of hard work, we just released the FastCGI...
Date: 10/31/2006
I feel like I got off on the wrong foot in my blog coverage of IIS extensibility … I started...
Date: 10/23/2006
In the previous post, I covered the “server not found” error that is a common and frustrating...
Date: 10/19/2006
Where did my IIS7 server go? Troubleshooting guide for those pesky "server not found" and "service unavailable" errors
Sometimes, after provisioning a new machine, or making some configuration changes, you may find that...
Date: 10/17/2006
This is the second post in the series on why IIS7 module development beats the pants off the ISAPI...
Date: 10/13/2006
First post in this series, looking at the basics of writing IIS6 ISAPI vs. IIS7 modules.Read more...
Date: 10/08/2006
Over the past two years, we did a bunch of work to make sure the new native APIs are easy to use and...
Date: 10/08/2006
Read more about how for the first time the IIS team is making Windows/IIS a first class platform for...
Date: 09/30/2006
I am now a proud owner of my own blog (Sorry MSDN, I hope things are still well between us). It can...
Date: 09/30/2006