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 …
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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One of the products I am working on these days has a WCF component. WCF service is using flexible bindings, so you can configure the service to run locally (via direct invocation) or via a WCF proxy using either HTTP, named pipes or TCP bindings. I have set this up before by creating a new …
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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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I just re-installed Windows 7 on my machine. Once I opened and tried to run an old web project configured for VS 2010 and .NET 4.0, my IIS server threw an exception. I went into Windows features and enabled all IIS features related to ASP.NET and WCF. Even after all this I still got the …