Hi, I have a ASP.NET web app (.NET 3.5 SP 1) compiled on a Windows XP x86 (32 bit) box. The app currently runs on a Windows 2003 (IIS 6) server. I'm planning to move the application to a Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit) server. I was wondering if anyone has had any experiences with a similar migration? Does a x86 ASP.NET web app work out-of-the...
I've recently downloaded beta 2 of VS2010 and started playing with ASP.NET MVC2. Initial development was done with Casini, but now I wanted to run the application from IIS 7.5 (I'm running Windows 7). I've installed the IIS6 metabase compatiblity and I run VS2010 as administrator so I can use the "Create Virtual Directory" button from th...
Hi all, I need to restart an app pool from code, does anyone know how to do this? I have seen many examples for iis6 and most comments have been "It doesnt work" So any ideas, or anyway to get IIS to watch a file and when it changes have the app pool restart? ...
I have a mixed WebForms/MVC application I'm trying to deploy to our staging environment, which is a fresh install of Server 2008 R2, with IIS 7.5. This application works fine while developing on anyone's local machine (via visual studio's web server), however when when it's hosted on the staging server we get the following error: HT...
Can anyone suggest the best way of moving websites on server1 with IIS7 to server2 with IIS 7.5 on it? I've read some articles which suggest copying the applicationHost.config file while preserving the configProtectedData node, but I'm concerned there may be settings in the IIS 7.5 config that don't exist in the current IIS7 config whi...
Hey all, Anyone pretty familiar with FTP 7.5 extensibility in IIS know what I might be doing wrong? I am having serious trouble getting an implementation of IFtpLogProvider to work correctly for custom logging. All I want to do is log failures beyond a static threshold to the event log, and have garbage collection every so often. I've ...
hi, when i running mvc app on iis7.5 win 7 it cause an exception "Request is not available in this context" which this don't cause when running by vs2008. can anyone help me? ...
Hi All, I recently switched from Vista to Windows 7 (with IIS 7.5). But i can't seem to get it fully working. My problem: I run Visual Studio 2008 (sp1) (run as administrator) and i see my WebSite (webforms). I publish my website, and all seems well, except my layout is wasted.. why? i get a 404 on my CSS and javascript file. I read a...
Hello, at home i have a simple network setup conatining 2 machines. On one machine i have a site hosted with IIS7. Rather than the standard localhost/index.htm address i have added an entry in the HOSTS file pointing the local ip (127.0.0.1) to this domain - www.mysite.dev. i can access the site with www.mysite.dev with no problem. w...
Hi, I wish to do some settings in IIS7 which could run asp.net 1.1 websites.For that some settings in ISAPI and CGI Extensions are required. But when Opened IIS 7 i couldn't locate any of those. I have enable all IIS features from Programs and Features in Control Panel I am using W7 32bit Enterprise Edition Thanks ...
Does anyone know if it's possible to run IIS 7.5 on Windows 2008. From what I understand Windows Server 2008 R2 is an exclusively 64-bit OS. Can we upgrade IIS7 to IIS7.5 on Windows 2008 (not R2) ...
I'm using a staging model with MSDeploy to deploy a couple of our sites to a web farm. The sites are configured in IIS on the staging boxes only, and then MSDeploy is used to build the target web servers from scratch. The staging box uses its own bindings (ie no header entries, different IPs/ports and no host headers) for the sites tha...
I'm sort of new to developing Asp.net webapplication projects while running them on a local IIS. Till now I used the 'Use Visual Studio Development Server' option. I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. Edit: less complex sample code Following code sample: List<string> _list = new List<string>(); _list.Add("asd"); ...
I would like to know if I can install IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 and NOT Windows Server 2008 R2? ...
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) using Visual Studio 2010 RC. I recently decided to have VS run/debug my apps on IIS rather than the dev server that comes with it. However, every time I try to run an MVC app, I get the following error: HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden The Web server is configured to not list the contents of thi...
I've just installed Windows 7 x64 Ultimate on my desktop PC. I installed IIS, Visual Studio 2008, registered ASP.NET, etc. I have this ASP.NET 3.5 website I'm working on running EXTREMELY slow on this new IIS. On STA and PROD servers (Windows 2003 Server) and on my old XP/IIS 5.1 everything runs smoothly. A page which usually takes 1-2...
I'm making an installer program for my web application. My web application uses CSS and JS heavily, so I want to enable both Static and Dynamic HttpCompression for IIS7/7.5. It needs 2 steps: I can modified the web.config, put <httpcompression> tag, it's ok. DynamicContentCompression must be turned on in Windows Feature to make httpC...
Related to this question. I understand how to implement versioning of workflows using WorkflowApplication. If you keep the original XAML definition for older versions of your workflow around, you can load them using the right WorkflowApplication constructor. How could you ensure that WorkflowServiceHost uses the correct workflow defini...
FTPS in IIS 7.5 is cool. Do you know how to configure it? ...
Hi, I'm experiencing a very annoying behaviour with the debugger in Visual Studio 2008 Professional. I'm debugging a ASP.NET web application, and when stepping through the code the debugger randomly "jumps out" of debug mode, but without the debugger stopping. So when I'm stepping through my code like this: step over, step over, ste...