Redirecting ASP.NET Legacy URLs to Extensionless with the IIS Rewrite Module

ASP.NET has included support for "friendly URLs" for a while now. ASP.NET MVC has always supported friendly URLs and more recently, so has Web Forms. That means if you don't want to have

Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Enabling New Relic Performance Monitoring on Windows Azure Websites

I've been looking for ways to save money running my (now 12) websites in the cloud lately. Getting insights from logs has been helpful, but I really want more details as to what my app is doing so

CDNs fail, but your scripts don't have to - fallback from CDN to local jQuery

There's a great website called http://whoownsmyavailability.com that serves as a reminder to me (and all of us) that external dependencies are, in fact, external. As such, they are calculated risk

Changing ASP.NET web.config inheritance when mixing versions of child applications

My blog and all the sites in and around it are a mix of .NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4. This blog engine is currently .NET 3.5 and runs at http://hanselman.com/blog , but the application at http://hanselman.com/

Moving old apps from IIS6 to IIS8 and why Classic Mode exists - Scott Hanselman

I had an interesting emailed question today. Here's a paraphrased one sentence version of the question: Why does an ASP.NET Runtime issue surface in IIS 8.0 Integrated Pool for an application we have run successfully on previous versions of IIS and classic mode in IIS 8.0 ?

Our first year. A new web conference - - Scott Hanselman

There's a new web conference happening in Vegas next month and you should join us. John Papa, myself and our friends pulled in the speakers from a combination of invitations and submitted talks. It's called anglebrackets.org and I hope to see you there.

Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start - 8 Hours of FREE Training Videos - Scott Hanselman

Last week Jon Galloway, Damian Edwards and myself (with a raspy throat) were up in Redmond at the Microsoft Campus filming at Microsoft Virtual Academy. They've got a whole studio there so we spent the whole day presenting LIVE.

RELEASED - Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 - Scott Hanselman

Just about a month ago the IEBlog published a post to allow business to manage the update schedule for Internet Explorer 10. It says "this approach lets organizations control when they are ready