WebApps
X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF) is essential whenever we have a Proxy or LoadBalancer between client...
Date: 09/05/2018
One of my customers needed to configure his ASP.NET site under FIPS. The information was scattered...
Date: 09/05/2018
I was assisting a customer who was trying several different configurations but his IIS log was not...
Date: 09/05/2018
A customer had a unique need of verifying authorized users against a website that runs on IIS. The...
Date: 09/05/2018
I was helping a customer other day on a stubborn crash whenever Powershell-ISE and...
Date: 09/05/2018
While assisting a customer on configuring ARR (Application Request Routing), we found that chunked...
Date: 03/26/2018
I was assisting a customer just the other day who was having a dejavu of removing Negotiate from IIS...
Date: 03/26/2018
I was assisting a customer who was struggling with this intermittent error. An iisreset would...
Date: 03/26/2018
Time to time, customers ask us about this warning. This is a by-design "benign" warning simply...
Date: 03/24/2018
Other day I was assisting a customer who had a unique need of binding a Certificate from within C#...
Date: 03/23/2018
When client makes an HTTP request to IIS, there are many layers of drivers and services it travels...
Date: 05/05/2017
Was assisting a customer on a critical server-down situation with a very generic error: "Page cannot...
Date: 05/05/2017
This is an interesting one, so wanted to blog on this. Had an Enterprise customer with an ARR that...
Date: 05/02/2017
One of our Premier customers called me the other day needing assistance on running multiple web...
Date: 05/02/2017
Just the other day, I was engaged with an Enterprise customer while he was experiencing an SSL Cert...
Date: 04/28/2017
Recently, I have assisted a Premier customer who installed a new certificate on Windows Server 2008...
Date: 04/28/2017
While helping customers troubleshooting HTTP-related error, a common question that we face: What is...
Date: 04/28/2017
On December 9 Microsoft released Silverlight version 5.1.31010. This version has been pulled and...
Date: 12/10/2014
IIS supports multiple Web sites on a single server. To create and host multiple Web sites, you must...
Date: 10/29/2014
Attended a call of duty when a customer needed to suppress WAS (Windows Activation Services)...
Date: 10/29/2014
Recently I have assisted couple of enterprise engineers in disabling a specific version SSL from IIS...
Date: 10/29/2014
Here is sample code to download and upload files to OneDrive from Universal Windows...
Date: 09/24/2014
Here is sample code to download and upload files to Azure Storage from Universal Windows...
Date: 09/24/2014
We receive a lot of questions about Silverlight support roadmap. The purpose of this post is to...
Date: 01/16/2014
You heard it right and its about time! RIA Services is getting Open-Sourced. Microsoft development...
Date: 01/16/2014
This was an interesting issue. While adding a counter, customer was not able to see ASP.NET related...
Date: 01/16/2014
Not all days are equal. Recently, my day was challenged with a fun but daunting task: to assist a...
Date: 01/16/2014
Recently I have talked to few customers who were looking for a way to add hostname on SSL binding....
Date: 01/16/2014
Silverlight: How to remove Mac OS X Mavericks Safari 6.1 sandbox restrictions for Silverlight enabled websites
By default, Mac OS X Mavericks / Safari 6.1 and later now load plugins like PDFs, Flash,...
Date: 11/14/2013
It’s pretty easy to track down an exception in an on-premise ASP.NET application. Just run the...
Date: 10/04/2013
If silverlight application in SharePoint Server 2013 AppPart cannot call WCF service in the same SPS2013 site
If you have a Silverlight Application hosted in an AppPart cannot call WCF service in the same...
Date: 10/03/2013
How to authenticate with ADSF in Silverlight 5 Application This article uses sample from...
Date: 07/18/2013
For In-Browser and Out-Of-Browser (OOB) Silverlight application, there is an option "Require...
Date: 07/17/2013
If you are having trouble with installing, uninstalling or reinstalling Silverlight on your Windows...
Date: 05/23/2013
Recently I have dealt with few cases where a Silverlight app keeps on crashing on few machines while...
Date: 05/10/2013
If you keep being prompted to install Silverlight when it is already installed, then you are at the...
Date: 05/03/2013
Set HttpWebRequest.KeepAlive = false to workaround issue casued by HttpWebRequest using a closed socket in very specific scenarios
Issue: System.Net.HttpWebRequest uses a socket that is closed in some special scenarios. (In this...
Date: 04/26/2013
Issue: when data size exceeds a limit (e.g. 50000Bytes), Silverlight application throw "NotFound"...
Date: 04/26/2013
Missing [RoundtripOriginal()] for key properties in RIA auto-generated code causing RIA entity update failure
Issue: After upgrading Silverlight application from Silverlight 4 to Silverlight 5, updating data...
Date: 04/26/2013
If you try to install RIA(Rich Internet Application), you need to have either Visual Studio or...
Date: 04/25/2013
Glimpse is a great open source diagnostic tool for web applications. Glimpse runs in your browser...
Date: 04/11/2013
If your website hosted in Windows Azure Web Sites is displaying an error message that doesn’t...
Date: 03/26/2013
I recently worked on a project where we were able to compile and run the Silverlight Business App,...
Date: 02/14/2013
One of the great things about Windows Azure Web Sites is being able to create a web site in seconds...
Date: 02/13/2013
This is the first in a series of Microsoft CTS Screencasts on using Windows Azure Web Sites....
Date: 02/13/2013
This post applies to Windows Azure Web Sites. These steps do not apply if you are using a Web Role....
Date: 02/13/2013
We recently worked on a project where we wanted to pass multiple values in a Where clause when...
Date: 01/24/2013
Configure a WCF Service with SSL and consume from Silverlight via HTTPS(including cross-domain scenario)
Recently we have worked on few issues where we had to configure WCF services with SSL so that we...
Date: 01/24/2013
Out of memory issue when Silverlight Application talks to WCF service using System.Net.Socket via Duplex Channel
We worked on an interesting issue where WCF was hosted as windows service. Data was Pushed from WCF...
Date: 01/24/2013
If you are trying to figure out why your WCF RIA Service's method calls(or just the regular WCF...
Date: 01/11/2013