Have you ever got frustrated because the website you have been developing and testing on the inbuilt Visual Studio webserver (Cassini) does not work when published to IIS? You have always had the option to use a local instance of IIS on your machine to debug Visual Studio web projects but thi... [More]

Rick  Strahl has just posted a really comprehensive post on Integrating OpenID in an ASP.NET MVC Application using DotNetOpenAuth. OpenId is a single sign on (SSO) scheme. The idea here is that you use your login for one site all over the place. SSO isn't really anything new, howeve... [More]

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I just came accross this review of 10 browser testing tools which are great for testing your website or web based application on multiple browsers. I have already been using multiple IE's and find it great for testing a website on multiple versions of Internet Explorer.  Looking dow... [More]

I just came across this post by ScotGu detailing the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit. Tho toolkit works within this IIS 7 admin tool and looks like a pretty good tool for taking a quick first look at any seo issues that may be present on your site. 

I have just read on Steve Schofield Weblog that the IIS team have just released a dynamic IP restrictions module. This module amoung other things will allow you to temporerilly block any client that makes too many requests. I would imagine this would be invaluable for anyone out there who runs any b... [More]

Every year old-school web design guru Jakob Nielsen releases a survey of the world's top Intranets. This year's report has some interesting comments on the use of 'web 2.0' techniques in company intranets. The report is always an intresting read. You can find the report here ... [More]