WCF service and client do not support HTTP Compression out of the box in .NET 3.5 even if you turn on Dynamic Compression in IIS 6 or 7. It has been fixed in .NET 4 but those who are stuck with .NET 3.5 for foreseeable future, you are out of luck. First of all, it’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘IIS’
Safely deploying changes to production servers
When you deploy incremental changes on a production server, which is running and live all the time, you some times see error messages like “Compiler Error Message: The Type ‘XXX’ exists in both…”. Sometimes you find Application_Start event not firing although you shipped a new class, dll or web.config. Sometimes you find static variables not [...]
Keep website and webservices warm with zero coding
If you want to keep your websites or webservices warm and save user from seeing the long warm up time after an application pool recycle, or IIS restart or new code deployment or even windows restart, you can use the tinyget command line tool, that comes with IIS Resource Kit, to hit the site and [...]
Redirecting traffic from http to https with zero coding in IIS
When you want to enforce https on users and you want to redirect any URL being hit on http to the exact counterpart of https, then usually you do it with some HttpModule written in .NET, or install some URL Redirector module in IIS, or setup a dummy website on http and then use meta [...]
Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6.0
Every time I create an IIS website, I do some steps, which I
consider as best practice for creating any IIS website for better
performance, maintainability, and scalability. Here’ re the things
I do:
Create a separate application pool for each web
application
I always create separate app pool for each web app because I can
select different schedule for app pool [...]
