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Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

by Max Paulousky

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

Hadoop For .Net & AngularJS Developers

by Bert O Neill

Query Hadoop using Microsoft oriented technologies (C#, SSIS, SQL Server, Excel etc.)

IIS 7 deployment: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET

by Monjurul Habib

How to: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET.

Using .NET and PHP to create an extensible WebDAV server

by Bill Seddon

Shows how a .NET based WebDAV server can be created by combining two Open Source projects. The example implementation returns files from a file system, but you can extend it to return resources from any repository.

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Web Farms: Identifying the Node that Served a Request.

by Lance Ford

Use an IIS module to identify the node that served a request in a web farm environment.

Override Date, Time, Currency and Number Formats in ASP.NET Applications

by Lance Ford

Step-by-step guide to enable an ASP.NET web application to override date, time, currency and number formats.

Add HTTP Request/Response Logging to an ASP.NET Framework Web Application With No Code

by Lance Ford

A walkthrough to enable request/response logging to an ASP.NET web application (or web service) by using an IIS module.

Installing Microsoft Web Deploy on Windows 7

by ToughDev

How to install Microsoft Web Deploy on Win7

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Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

27 Nov 2009 by Max Paulousky

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

SQL-Server-2005

Hadoop For .Net & AngularJS Developers

29 Dec 2015 by Bert O Neill

Query Hadoop using Microsoft oriented technologies (C#, SSIS, SQL Server, Excel etc.)

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IIS 7 deployment: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET

3 Dec 2011 by Monjurul Habib

How to: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET.

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Using .NET and PHP to create an extensible WebDAV server

31 Oct 2007 by Bill Seddon

Shows how a .NET based WebDAV server can be created by combining two Open Source projects. The example implementation returns files from a file system, but you can extend it to return resources from any repository.

WCF by Example - Chapter VII - Decoupling of WCF Services from the ViewModel

11 Oct 2011 by Enrique Albert

Baseline WCF Distribution Layer - Decoupling of WCF Services and ViewModels.

Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

7 Apr 2011 by Dylan Morley

You may need to enable 32-bit applications in your AppPool. e.g.http://www.alexjamesbrown.com/development/could-not-load-file-or-assembly-chilkatdotnet2-or-one-of-its-dependencies-an-attempt-was-made-to-load-a-program-with-an-incorrect-format/[^]

unable to start debugging on the web server. the server committed a protocol violation. section=responsestatusline

19 Feb 2013 by _Amy

This error usually occurs when you have set up Visual Studio to debug an existing web application running in IIS rather than the built in ASP.NET debug web server. IIS by default listens for web requests on port 80. In this case, another application is already listening for requests on port 80....

Creating a “customizable” personal blog using ASP.NET

15 Dec 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is part 1 of the articles that I want to write for ASP.NET beginners, who want to build their own personal web sites, that mimic characteristics of blog. It covers the ASP.NET web application part.

Build ReST based Web Services in .NET/C#

12 Jul 2009 by Parag.Gadkari

A ReST based Web Service for C#.

Working with Keyboard Events and their Codes in JavaScript

14 Sep 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

How to use the keyboard events of the user and use them to dynamically change the User Interface or to perform some actions

Simple simulation of load balancing

11 Mar 2015 by Ivan Yakimov

In this article I'll explain how to make something similar to load balancer on your single developer machine.

Amazon Web Services part 1 - How to deploy a load balanced web site

23 Mar 2015 by Matt Perdeck

Quickly create a load balanced web site in the cloud with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Powerful IIS/Apache Monitoring Dashboard using ElasticSearch+Grafana

29 May 2016 by Omar Al Zabir

Use ElasticSearch and Grafana to build powerful and beautiful dashboards. Monitor and analyze IIS/Apache logs in near real time

HTTP Binary Serialization through ASP.NET without WCF

15 Aug 2009 by Ricardo Pineda Then

Shows how to serialize an object using binary serialization without using WCF.

WCF by Example - Chapter XIV - Validation & Exception Management

25 Oct 2012 by Enrique Albert

WPF Validation using the IDataErrorInfo interface combined with Validation attributes

SQL-Server-2005

Passing Object Collections to ASP.NET Web API

16 Jan 2014 by Tom Glick Philadelphia, US

POC to demonstrate passing of collections of complex objects to ASP.NET Web API Controllers.

401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials

10 Jul 2012 by sanjayv.gade

Issue solved:1. Open iis and select the website that is causing the 4012. Open the “Authentication” property under the “IIS” header3. Click the “Windows Authentication” item and click “Providers”4. Move NTLM at topand BAM that's fixed it.

i get HTTP Error 500.21 when i access a web site project deployed using iis 7

30 Sep 2013 by vinayak.ghanti

Hi i was also getting same error i solved it please follow the steps1.run the command prompt as administrator2.type the line in the command prompt below any one%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe...

How to Use IIS Manager to Get Worker Processes (w3wp.exe) Details Information?

5 Nov 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to use IIS Manager to get worker processes (w3wp.exe) details information?

How to Create SSL Secure Server (HTTPS) in Local IIS?

4 May 2013 by Bikash Prakash Dash

This tip is helpful to create and manage self-signed SSL certificate for local IIS.

Retrieving the COM Class Factory for Component with CLSID...Failed Due to the Following Error: 80040154

16 Aug 2013 by Moudud Hassan

Fix to COM component retrieving error:80040154 in web application running in IIS

How to Improve Web Application Performance by Enabling Dynamic Compression for JSON and JavaScript

21 Nov 2014 by ManojKumar19

Learn how to configure dynamic compression in IIS 7.5 to improve performance

How to correlate IIS, Application and SQL Server Audit logs to achieve full stack audit.

5 Sep 2016 by Z Kavtaskin

How to Publish ASP.NETCore MVC Web Application to IIS in Less Than 5 Minutes

1 Nov 2016 by O.Nasri

A good tutorial in how you can publish your ASP.NETCore MVC web application to IIS.

4 server logs you need to know to troubleshoot failed ASP.NET requests

22 Jan 2017 by Matt Watson (Stackify)

Learn about the 4 various log sources you need to know when tracking down ASP.NET request errors.

Developing Non-ASP.NET Websites running under IIS

9 Jul 2017 by Marc Clifton

Discovering some of the nuances of IIS and looking under the hood at how Katana/Owin does its initialization.

How to extract overlapped polygons and calculate the overlapped area and write an API for it?

21 Oct 2017 by mahmood kabi

extract overlapped polygons and calculate the overlapped area and write an API for it

Installing a Free SSL Certificate on Azure

14 Jan 2020 by Chris A. Johnson

This article explains exactly how to setup an SSL certificate for FREE on your Azure account. The existing free SSL with Azure only works on 'non-naked' domains, making it pretty much worthless. This is a 100% free method which ensures your site will be 100% secure.

The Bug That Got Away

22 Dec 2019 by Rion Williams

Bug stories: Exposition, action, climax, resolution, or epic failures.

Setting the best value for Application pool Queue length limit

5 Aug 2010 by Vinayaka Krishna Shenoy

Setting the best value for Application pool Queue length limit

Time out happens after every 4-5 hits to DB

6 Aug 2010 by Vinayaka Krishna Shenoy

Hi,There could be multiple reasons.1) Database server may not be having sufficient resources to process the request2) Database server may be busy in serving other request3) There could be potential connection leak4) Connection pool size many not be sufficient5) There could be...

How to enable HTTPCompression in IIS6

17 Oct 2010 by Brij

Enabling HTTPCompression in IIS6

Asp.net 3.5 and IIS7 500 (Internal Server) Error.

26 Feb 2011 by _Ashish

It may be problem for IIS 7.0 using the Application Pool integrated pipeline mode.1) Try this in web.config file.

Call WebService Dynamically and Read WebService Definition

17 Apr 2012 by abhinavshastri

How to Call WebService Dynamically and Read WebService Definition

Security Exception coming in a running asp.net website

30 Jul 2014 by Mahendra Dhande

System.Security.SecurityExcept...

Uploading the Files – HTML5 and jQuery Way!

28 Nov 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Uploading the files - HTML5 and jQuery way

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Retrieve an HTML Page from Within Your (ASP-)Scripts Without Any Components

28 Aug 2001 by Uwe Keim

Tiny little Perl library to retrieve an arbitrary URL as a string

IIS Articles Archives

1 Sep 2010 by Abhijit Jana

In this blog post, I have going to list out all of my IIS articles that I have published over last few years.

SSL MakeCert / pvk2pfx & Client & Server Certificate Generation

20 Feb 2011 by Jammer

Create a full suite of SSL certificate for development purposes

How to install iis with out xp cd

26 May 2011 by thatraja

Look at thisHow to Install IIS on Windows XP SP2 Without the CD[^]

Website made in Web Developer 2008 is not running on IIS 5.1

31 Jul 2011 by Wonde Tadesse

In addition to the solution what is given by John, take a look at this discussion.Is possible to work with IIS 5.1 and .NET Framework 3.5?[^]

How do I download a .aspx file itself from the Web server?

30 Aug 2011 by Espen Harlinn

No, not unless somebody has gone out of their way to make this possible when they set up the web site.Best regardsEspen Harlinn

A Single File Login Page for ASP.NET

19 Aug 2012 by wullinkm

A single file login page for ASP.NET

Remove Slow Startups and Enjoy Less “Suspense” through .NET 4.5.1′s App Suspend Feature

10 Oct 2013 by Rion Williams

This article covers one of the switches that you might be interested in flipping, the App Suspend feature, which is available in .NET 4.5.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Setting up IIS with HTTPS Binding

7 Feb 2014 by Avinash6474

Set HTTPS binding for web site

Deploying your Own Website Files in Windows Azure

20 Apr 2014 by Kristian Guevara

This article shows on how to upload your own web files (html, css, etc) through FTP and deploy them in Windows Azure

"Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

20 Nov 2014 by anoopgoyal

One of possible reason for this problem [It fixed issue at my end]:If you are using Debug code as below in your service the problem may arise. #if(!DEBUG) ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun; ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[] { new...

HTTP Respond Content Compression with MVC Controller Action Filter Attribute

24 Nov 2014 by Dushmantha Baranige

HTTP respond data content length compression in MVC web application by an ActionFilter attribute to improve performance in web requests.

How to update dlls of an existing application in IIS while it is up and being used by a no. of users.

24 Aug 2015 by Richard Deeming

Assuming the files you want to update are located in the application's bin directory, you can just copy the new files into the directory. ASP.NET makes a "shadow copy" of the files, and loads them from the copy. When you update the files, it creates a new AppDomain to service any new...

Putting WCF to Work

14 Jan 2016 by Asher Barak, Itiel Beeri

Infrastructure for large scale WCF services layer development

IIS Web Log Hit Counter

8 Sep 2016 by Mehedi Shams

Counting hits of the sites that run through IIS, using IIS logs

Crystal Reports not rendering when webpage is served outside of network

22 Nov 2011 by jasonHall

Here's the scenario: Windows Server 2003 SP2Hosting ASP.NET web application Framework 4.0 that uses Crystal reports Viewer to render Crystal Reports Version=13.0.2000.0Yes, I have installed Crystal Reports Runtime Engine for .NET Framework 4 (32-bit)I can see that all of my...

Optimising hierarchical SQL structures (an ASP approach)

15 Oct 2001 by Ciprian Miclaus

An article on how to improve SQL hierarchies

Change Local IIS Home Path from Explorer Context Menu

1 Sep 2008 by Sean Rock

Change local IIS home path from explorer context menu

Salient.Web.Security.AccessControlModule

2 Jan 2010 by Sky Sanders

AccessControlModule can impart a greater consistency and usability upon the default behaviour of FormsAuthentication and allow any client script code to leverage FormsAuthentication in a straight forward manner.

IIS 7 needs extra configuration to allow large file uploads

13 Apr 2010 by Martin Jarvis

Whilst uploading a large (70MB) file to an IIS 7 website I got a 404 error….which was odd, uploading a file in a postback shouldn’t give me that. I know that file exists!On further investigation it turns out it was actually a 404.13 error from the Request Filtering feature of the Integrated...

Auto Attach Debugger VS .net 2005 in Windows 7/64bit with IIS 7.5

5 Sep 2010 by Phatak

Fortunately I found the solution for that.For attaching Debugger with Asp.Net and Visual Studio 2005you have to close all windows of Microsoft internet explorer before start debugging the application

Configure impersonation in IIS

16 Sep 2010 by Al-Farooque Shubho

Impersonation is a subject of Asp.net. So, I don't think you can do this in IIS.What you need is the following:1. Implement a method that does impersonation programmatically, and do not impersonate in web.config.2. Check the virtual directory name using the Request.ApplicationPath...

Drupal on Windows - Easier Done than Said

4 Oct 2010 by Laurence Moroney-MSFT

How to install Drupal on Windows with IIS

Map Virtual Directories To Page With Query String

8 Nov 2010 by Ed Guzman

See my last comment.Here is how to handle post back situation.I cut off some non important code, so the code might have errors.It is easy to understand. Together with the re-writer it will be working just fine.public class TextWriterRewriteFormAction :...

Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

14 Jul 2011 by katrash

It seems the Oracle Data Access Component installation process using the "11.2 Release 3 (11.2.0.2.1) with Xcopy Deployment" version is broken. To fix this you must register the missing assemblies in the GAC. To do this for this specific version run these commands from within an administrator...

IIS 5.0 query string limit in asp.net

27 Jul 2011 by Balaji Prabu AL

Hi, As everyone said, 90000 chars is huge. Check if that is required functionally. If you still need to pass 90,000 character to the page, it can be achieved by many ways.1) Try if you can put them in the hidden field and do a post back to get it back on the server side.2) This can...

Website made in Web Developer 2008 is not running on IIS 5.1

31 Jul 2011 by #realJSOP

Here's an idea - why don't you install .Net 3.5 and see if that fixes it... However, that sounds more like a SQLServer error to me.Did you upload the database specified in the connection string to the server?BTW, wouldn't it be better to create a web service and use that instead of using...

Custom error pages for ALL file types

10 Oct 2011 by Gregory Gadow

Configure your IIS site to serve custom error pages for all your file types: .html, .aspx, .pdf, whatever.

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Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

14 Nov 2011 by Javed Boqo

himake sure that you have more than one default application pools but you should set the 32-bit to your active default pool

ASP.NET and IIS config

6 Jan 2012 by donaldrichardson

You could create a AD group and give the access you need to sqlserver to that group instead of to individuals.Also, IIS allows impersonation, which means a person can authenticate to the site using their own login, but iis will use a specific impersonated user to do the database calls.Find...

Not able to read all row from Excel in c# with Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0

2 May 2012 by Maciej Los

Moved from commentIt's very interesting... I'm working with multiple files which size is between 40 - 125 MB. You use IMEX, so please, see a note from connectionstrings.com site:"Treating data as text(...) Use this one when you want to treat all data in the file as text, overriding Excels...

session expiration problem

7 Jun 2012 by codeBegin

Session Time Out is 20 minutes by default. The value is affected in a number of settings including Application Pool, ASP, ASP.NET Session State, CookieTimeout.Please follow instruction below to configure Session Time Out on IISOpen IIS ManagerApplication Pool -> Advanced Settings...

How to Work with IIS 7

11 Jun 2012 by Prasad_Kulkarni

Please refer:Host your own website using IIS7[^]Install IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET on Windows Server 2008[^]Describes how to install IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET on Windows Server 2008 and how to start Visual Studio with administrative rights.Running Web Applications on Windows Server 2008 with IIS...

Which one is better IIS of Apache.

24 Jul 2012 by Prasad_Kulkarni

Have a look:FeatureIISApacheIndependent Request HandlerYesYes(limited)Multiple Process Request HandlersYesYesThread SupportYesYes (on a suitable OS)ASPYesWith Chilisoft, Apache::ASP, or modmonoCGIYesYesPerlYesYesPythonYesYesPHPYesYesJSPYesYes.NET...

Access to the path '~\Upload\NewsImage' is denied.

5 Sep 2012 by Andrei Straut

The solution comes from your own error message:To grant ASP.NET access to a file, right-click the file in Explorer, choose "Properties" and select the Security tab. Click "Add" to add the appropriate user or group. Highlight the ASP.NET account, and check the boxes for the desired...

Process.start is not working in IIS

21 Dec 2012 by OriginalGriff

Yes it is.Trust me on this.It's just that you don't understand what is happening.C# code is executed on the server, not the client. So when you executeProcess.Start("IExplore.exe", "www.northwindtraders.com");You are executing it on the server, so the server is where the instance of...

IIS - Creating sites automatically from template

7 Mar 2013 by Zoran Rubinic

Automatically creating sites in IIS from template

How to Change Default Port of IIS Manager from 80 in Windows 8.1

10 Jan 2014 by Nitesh Kejriwal

How to change default port of IIS Manager from 80 in Windows 8.1

A Basic Single Page Application Using Custom Dojo Templated Widgets

31 Jul 2014 by SrikantSahu

This tip can be used to know more about how dojo templated widgets can be created and used inside a portlet programmatically.

How Do I Run A Aspx Page Hosted In Iis On Every 5 Mins?

7 Oct 2014 by Richard Deeming

Scott Hanselman documented the available options for running background tasks in ASP.NET applications:http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToRunBackgroundTasksInASPNET.aspx[^]If you're using .NET 4.5.2, you can use the new QueueBackgroundWorkItem API[^].Scott's recommendation seems to be...

How to Access the Site using Domain Name Instead of localhost in IIS

7 Oct 2014 by Sri Nivas.M

How to access the site using domain name instead of localhost in IIS

Q: What are the difference between .net framework and IIS?

25 Mar 2015 by Abhinav S

These two cannot be compared..Net framework - .Net Framework[^]IIS - Internet Information Services[^]

The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' Provider is Not Registered on the Local Machine

11 Sep 2015 by Bimaln

How to fix the "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 provider is not registered on the local machine" error.

Crystal Reports not rendering when webpage is served outside of network

12 Oct 2015 by emrah kasal

Still If you have a problem with this issue:1. Open the the page that the empty report renders from your browser. Find console errors using dev. tool of your browser (f12) 2. You will see that some of the scripts and css related with crystal reports does not exists under the correct...

How to Enable gzip Compression in IIS7

2 Nov 2019 by Ghanshyam N Patel

How to enable gzip compression in IIS7

Windows Authentication with Angular and .NET Core Web API

8 Nov 2020 by DotNetLead.com

This article shows you how to add Windows Authentication to Angular and .NET Core Web API projects.

How to publish my web application in my local IIS?

28 Jul 2010 by Sandeep Mewara

Have a look here:How to: Create and Configure Virtual Directories in IIS 5.0 and 6.0[^]

Configuring IIS to provide external remote access

3 Jan 2011 by fjdiewornncalwe

Without IIS running you can't run a webpage on a computer. It is IIS that responds to requests. You will have to install IIS if you want to provide any access to the webpage.

How to configure anonymous access WCF over HTTP (no SSL)

4 Feb 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

For example, if you make self-hosted WCF service it will be "anonymous" unless you specifically implement some kind of authentication :-). Same thing about Web service or ASP.NET. Probably your idea of authentication is related specifically SSL authentication...

Software for ASP.Net

31 Mar 2011 by Monjurul Habib

Navigate the following links for better understanding:Getting Started with ASP.NET ProgrammingAll over hereI hope the above information will be helpful. If you have more concerns, please let me know.

Compilation Error Server Error in Application.

22 May 2011 by OriginalGriff

Isn't the clue in the error message?Looks like you have declared a class/enum/structure "Include_switchreview" at least twice: have a look in the source for the two DLL files it mentions: one of them is a temporary so you may want to just use "Find in files" and see what you get...

upload a file in asp.net

10 Jul 2011 by Espen Harlinn

You asked about this earlier today:Access to the path is denied[^]Take a look at the comments - you need to set this up so that the IIS user have write access to a folder, and still provide adequately for sequrity.Best regardsEspen Harlinn

Website made in Web Developer 2008 is not running on IIS 5.1

31 Jul 2011 by alchemist_NKJ

Thanks Everyone,Finally it is running on the IIsFor that above problem i changed the user instance in machine.config file to false then that problem was solved but then iis was showing a new error login failed for MACHINENAME\ASPNET:---For that i created a user account in SQL server...

[Solved] How to prevent Eval() from being called unless the containing Panel is Visible?

1 Sep 2011 by #realJSOP

Write a method in your code behind, put the if in there, and call your method from the markup.public void ControlEval(string evalThis){ if (pnlFeaturesText.Visible) { Eval(evalThis); }}and then you can do this:

Application Pool Stops automatically

13 Nov 2011 by RaisKazi

IIS stops Application-Pool when number of failures(related to that Application-Pool) exceeds value of "Maximum Failures" Property set into the "Advanced Settings" of that Application-Pool. You may review cause of failures of your Application in "Event Viewer" of the Server.Ideally you should...

IIS display error page

29 Jan 2012 by Espen Harlinn

HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.Here is a link to a page that exists:http://harlinn.com/Blitz.aspx[^]Here is a link to a page that doesn't exist:http://harlinn.com/fantastic.aspx[^]Try entering a correct url ...Best regardsEspen Harlinn

What’s New in WCF 4.5? Improved Streaming in IIS Hosting

3 Feb 2012 by Ido Flatow

Improved streaming in IIS hosting

Url Rewriting in iis7 using urlrewrite

24 Apr 2012 by Leonardo Paneque

I think something like this will do it please check if you have other rules...

HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error

23 May 2012 by Sandeep Mewara

IIS 7 implements "Configuration Locking". This is to help with IIS administration.Here, look at the error details and how to resolve the same: IIS 7 – This configuration section cannot be used at this path.[^]As per it, one of the resolution:1. Open the applicationHost.config file,...

FAQ on ASP.NET or MAQ on ASP.NET

7 Jun 2012 by codeBegin

You can get all answers here[^]Just copy and paste your each question there.

No printer Found error while printing from IIS7

9 Jun 2012 by Sandeep Mewara

Have a look here: MSDN: Troubleshooting Exceptions: System.Drawing.Printing.InvalidPrinterException[^]

how to publish 3.5 dot net apps in IIS where IIS supports only 1.1?

20 Jun 2012 by OriginalGriff

By the look of it, the server has .NET v1.1 installed. In order to run your webservice at .NET V3.5 you will have to upgrade the .NET framework on the server.

IIS doesnt open exe file like calc.exe,outlook.exe,notepad.exe

25 Jul 2012 by OriginalGriff

Oh good grief!This is a very common question, raised by people who have no idea what they are doing... When you execute the method Process.Start, is it executed in the code behind. Which runs on the server, not the client. So any process you start, and any executable file that runs, runs on...

IIS doesn't load CSS & JQuery

1 Aug 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Oh, it does, don't worry. IIS "does not care" what to load, it will load whatever you reference via the client's HTTP request. Both jQuery and CSS files are purely client-side entities, so check up presence of the files and their path names in each HTML file using jQuery and CSS. Normally,...