Archive for the ‘IIS’ Category

IIS 7: HTTP POST, DefaultDocumentModule and a forgotten '/'

Yesterday I experienced some issues when I was trying to access a generic http handler (*.ashx) file using only the path without the filename e.g.: http://localhost/somefolder The default document was set to uploadhandler.ashx. So i expected that if I connected to http://localhost/somefolder it would sent me to http://localhost/somefolder/uploadhandler.ashx but it didn’t. Appareantly it has got [...]

Compact framework WCF, Disco files, netcfsvcutil

When using the 3.5 version of the compact framework it is possible to connect with wcf services. This is because the CF 3.5 contains a limited subset of the wcf technology. There are several blog posts listing the wcf capabilities in CF e.g.: http://blogs.msdn.com/andrewarnottms/archive/2007/08/21/the-wcf-subset-supported-by-netcf.aspx We were researching for a mobile client to connect to a [...]

It’s here to stay: Frontpage Server Extensions

Although nobody really uses the program for which this technology was initialy created – Microsoft Frontpage – there are still programs that use the FPSE. Like Visual Studio .Net uses it to publish a website/webservice. With the new IIS 7.0 most developers will know about the “publish problem” from vs.net to an IIS 7.0 web [...]