My first Gadgeteer project I wrote about here used an Ethernet connection. However, this limited the mobility of my device and therefore wanted to configure the device to connect to a Wi-Fi network. I must mention that another coolness factor with this Wi-Fi project was I used the Wi-Fi internet sharing capability on my Microsoft […]
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If you have not tried creating a Self-Hosted Web API, you might give it a shot, here is a good, getting started example. Once it gets into production, if you are looking for ways to troubleshoot a slow performing self-hosted Web API, searching for a W3WP process to take a memory dump of or applying […]
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When you setup a Web Farm using Application Request Router (ARR) the value for the c-ip written to the IIS log is the IP address of the ARR server and not the client or user IP address. Click on the Server Farm from within the IIS management console, then click on the Proxy link. As […]
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I not only support Azure Web Apps, formerly Azure Websites, but I use it too. I had a site that was getting the exception shown in Figure 1. The error was “Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in […]
Read More →There are a few other resources about this here and here, but as experiences and changes happen, documenting and sharing different perspectives help move projects and people forward. Additionally, there is no better way to learn than by doing and no better way to remember than by documenting or writing it down. Here is an […]
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Please have a read of my article I wrote about an IoT device project I created. It was published in this month’s MSDN Magazine. Figure 1, MSDN Magazine Here is a picture of the actual Gadgeteer device. Figure 2, IoT Device
Read More →IMO the Application Request Routing server should be on a server which is not hosting the webFarm itself. The only reason I can think of wanting to do this is to save costs on resources, both hardware and support. I look at the documentation here and do not see any mention of this kind of […]
Read More →A common question I get is, “why doesn’t my SMTP email code that I wrote for my other website not work on Azure Web App?” Additionally, I sometimes get this exception sent to me, “System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Transaction failed. The server response was: #.#.# Service unavailable; Client host […] blocked using; Blocked”. I also wrote an article […]
Read More →Have you ever FTPed some files to your Azure App Service and when you went to browse the site you still saw the old files or the ones you published do not exist? When you have multiple Azure App Services hosted in the same region (I.e. West Europe, East US, etc…), exist in the same […]
Read More →When you configure a WebDAV site, it is not only accessible via the NET USE command to map the drive in Windows Explorer, it is also accessible via a browser. Because of this it is not safe to allow users or customers to upload web.config files that would possibly impact the availability, functionality or security […]
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