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    Nancy, IIS 7 and the PUT command

    by Christiaan Baes (chrissie1) on Mar 13, 2013 in categories Server Programming, ASP.NET. Article views: 972 views

    When using Nancy and IIS you might get a 405 when trying to use it from your application. Here is how I fixed it.

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    Setting up SSL for your intranetsite using the Active directory certificate services. Because self-signing is no good.

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    Microsoft has released ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM for Visual Studio 2008 SP1.

    Note Because Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 RC share a component of ASP.NET MVC 2, installing the ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM release on a computer where Visual Studio 2010 RC is also installed is not supported.

    New Features in ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM

    The following features are new since the RC release of ASP.NET MVC 2.

    Templated Helpers Allow You to Specify Extra View Data

    ASP.NET MVC 2 now includes new overloads of the EditorFor and DisplayFor methods. These overl...

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    How to Install Internet Information Services (IIS) On Windows 7

    by SQLDenis on Jun 17, 2009 in categories Operating Systems. Article views: 1655 views

    If you are upgrading from windows xp to windows 7 there is a change in the way you install Internet Information Services. On windows xp you would install IIS from add/remove windows components. This is different in Windows 7; it is very similar how it i…

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    Vulnerability in IIS Could Allow Elevation of Privilege

    by SQLDenis on May 20, 2009 in categories Web Design, Graphics & Styling. Article views: 2428 views

    Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the WebDAV extension for IIS handles HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a specially crafted anonymous HTTP request to gain access to a location that typically requires authentication.

    Here is what such an attack looks like (from http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8704)

    The attacker sends a HTTP GET requ...

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    So yesterday I got a new machine at work. I decided to only install SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 on this box. First I installed Visual Studio 2008, after that I installed Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and then I installed SQL Server 2008. I still remember when I tried to install SQL Server 2008 RTM on my older machine with Visual Studio 2008 and it wouldn’t do it because you needed SP1 for the framework first, this got released 2 days later or so.

    So then I noticed that IIS was not installed on this box, of course you need the CD/DVD to add components to the Oper...

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    One Second Caching, Brilliant Or Insane?

    by SQLDenis on Sep 14, 2008 in categories Web Design, Graphics & Styling. Article views: 2753 views

    Let's say you get 1000 hits per second on your website's home page, you want the users to feel that the site is as real time as possible without overloading your database. These hits on your site display some data from the database and are mostly reads;…

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