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Dotnet development

ApplicationPool creation in Metabase with Csharp

Posted on January 14, 2015 by erictummers

In our project we create IIS application pools from code. For this we connect to the metabase with DirectoryEntry. This is COM and the exceptions are ridiculous somewhat cryptic. Below is code to create an Application Pool. The comments describe … Continue reading →

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Basic Authentication on the Mono framework

Posted on December 3, 2014 by erictummers

Use the NetworkCredential constructor with username and password as strings. The SecureString constructor resulted in a request without the password in the Authorization header.

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Remote Debugging to Azure VM

Posted on November 24, 2014 by erictummers

Add Remote Debugging tools setup to your automation script and use point-to-site VPN to do remote debugging. Continue reading →

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Azure VM on Virtual Network

Posted on November 17, 2014 by erictummers

Create a Virtual Network and use it when creating new Virtual Machines in Windows Azure so they can find each other. Continue reading →

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Disable viewstate on IIS 7.5

Posted on November 12, 2014 by erictummers

Remove the viewstate with javascript to allow post to other page without viewstate in IIS 7.5. This avoids the “Validation of viewstate MAC failed” exception. Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged asp.net, iis, Mac, viewstate, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7 | Leave a comment