I am in the process of migrating a large number of sites from a Windows 2003 Server to a Windows 2008 R2 Server for a client. When testing the migrated sites I kept getting the all too familiar ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’ exceptions. As the site was in debug [...]
On 10.22.10, In Windows Server 2008, by Simon Dingley
I currently maintain two windows based servers in the cloud with Elastic Hosts, one of my own and one for a client. On both I have scheduled tasks running and noticed that the time was slipping on the execution of these tasks over time. It became apparent that the server was unable to maintain the [...]
On 10.08.10, In Software, by Simon Dingley
I manage a server for a client that has the FileZilla Server running as a service. Every time I connect to the server and login the FileZilla Server Interface loads and pops into focus which after some time gets a bit annoying since it is rarely needed. It appears that the option to load the [...]
On 09.17.10, In Social Media, by Simon Dingley
I’m not what you would call a serious Facebook user, I don’t use it every day, probably once or twice a week but mainly to see what friends have been up to rather than to post anything. I have a few friends on Facebook that quite regularly spam me with event invitations that are and [...]
In IIS on Windows 7 it appears that the ‘old fashioned’ method of using ASP.NET IIS Registration Tool (Aspnet_regiis.exe) is no longer the correct method to update the script maps. Instead the Windows feature should be enabled via the control panel by following the steps below:
Open the Control Panel
Select “Programs”
Select “Turn Windows Features on or [...]
Most projects I work on need a list of countries at some point so I put together a snippet of SQL that I could reuse to create and populate a countries table in the database with all countries as given in ISO 3166-1. After recently writing a utility class to populate list controls with world [...]
On 07.23.10, In Windows Server 2008, by Simon Dingley
Ever needed to know which ASP.Net worker process (w3wp.exe) belongs to an App Pool? Well I did recently when I needed to attach to it for debugging and there was no obvious way to find out which process related to each app pool. A little bit of research led me to discover AppCmd.exe. I wrote [...]
On 07.02.10, In Windows Server 2008, by Simon Dingley
I recently had a client who had some issues delivering mail from their site so I went to look at the SMTP logs only to find that there were none there (I am embarrassed to say). I notice that I had configured the logs to be written to a custom directory on a separate drive from the operating system and thought [...]
A requirement that came up recently required a drop down list of world currencies. I developed a reusable method for populating a ListControl with World Currencies using components from the .Net Framework alone.
On 04.20.10, In Development, by Simon Dingley
You may receive a 403 error when you use an ASP request to upload a large file in Internet Information Services, the type of error you may get is “Request object error ‘ASP 0104 : 80004005′ Operation not Allowed”. This can be fixed by amending the AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed value in the IIS Metabase and this article details just how.
