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Sunday, May 25, 2008 10:05 AM

IIS 7.0 Resource Kit Book is published

The Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit is now published and you can get it from the following link: Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit I strongly recommend this book to read to get to know everything you want about
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:21 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Hotfixes and SP1 Beta

Before installing VS 2008 SP1 Beta, check if you had installed any previous hot fixes. If yes, then you need to install the Hotfixes Cleanup utility before installing the SP1 beta. Where to get the cleanup utility? Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix Cleanup Utility
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:45 AM

Running Classic ASP pages inside Classic Mode in IIS 7.0

I have been trying for a while to run classic ASP pages inside an application hosted on IIS 7.0 and running under the Classic Mode Application Pool. In IIS 6.0, there was the concept of Wild-Card Mapping where you map all requests to the ASP.NET ISAPI
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 9:38 AM

Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight

A great article by Brad Adams on accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Services in Silerlight! Check it out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/05/03/accessing-the-asp-net-authentication-profile-and-role-service-in-silverlight.aspx
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:00 AM

Input Validation Helper Methods

I found a good resource on validating user input on Channel9. You can reach that resource by following this link: http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/SecurityWiki.RegExInputValCode2 The page contains a set of utility methods to help you in validating
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:04 PM

Install Windows Search Service on Windows Server 2008

Enabling advanced search inside Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 requires that you install Windows Search Service on the machine! However, installing this service is not that direct and easy to reach. To install Windows Search Service on a Windows Service
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