Publish ASP.NET v.Next to IIS

In this post I want to document the steps of publishing an ASP.NET v Next web site to IIS and have it successfully use an SQL Server database.  I am going to assume you downloaded the preview version of Visual Studio 2015 that allows you to create v. next projects.  Start Visual Studio 2015 and …

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Detecting App Pool Recycling and Mitigating Its Effects

If you wrote any web apps using ASP.NET and IIS, you are familiar with the concept of app pools in IIS.  If you also used Entity Framework or any other library that requires some amount of work to warm-up, you have seen the effects of app pool recycling.  At that time application domain for your …

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Pitfalls of Deploying Silverlight Applications in Web Farms

I wanted to make a few notes regarding my recent experience of deploying a Silverlight application in web farm environment.  Here is what the topology looked like.  It included load balancer appliance configured to redirect the traffic to one of three servers.  There was also SQL Server cluster in active-passive configuration.  The application was using …

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