I wrote an article here about using Traffic Manager with your Azure Web App, please take a look at it to get more context for this article. When you create a Traffic Manager, for example, with a name of EUROPE, similar to that shown in Figure 1, the URL which you must direct your requests […]
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This is a pretty common error which can be caused by a large number of reasons. I received the below error: GenericADOExcpetion could not execute query [ select ] [SQL: select ] While I was implemented the TrueFalse NHibernate data type. What I did was in my class file (class.cs) I rightly created the property […]
Read More →During the mapping process or after a data model change you may receive this error. The error message being: {“could not execute query\r\n[ select from TABLE ]”} with an inner exception of {“Ungültiger Spaltenname ‘SPALTEN NAME’.”} {“Invalid column name ‘COLUMN NAME’.”} I received this error when I was creating a many-to-one relationship between 2 classes, […]
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One of my favorite tools for troubleshooting Internet Information Service issues is ProcDump. It is a single, small, yet powerful EXE that is very useful for capturing W3WP.exe process memory dumps. One of my other favorites is Failed Request Tracing which I have written about here and here for a Windows Azure Web Site. Failed […]
Read More →Having spent many years supporting web sites running on IIS one of the most challenging aspects was managing load. I was able to plan for near-term growth by tracking the CPU, Memory, total number of requests, etc… over time and once the utilization of these elements exceeded my threshold for what I considered manageable, it […]
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I wrote an article about the ability to enable Web Server Logging, Detailed Error Message, Failed Request Tracing and Application Logging here. In that article I discussed that you can download the logs using an FTP tool like FileZilla. You can also download the log files from within Visual Studio by performing the following. I […]
Read More →I have written some instruction on how I setup a WebDAV installation that uses Windows Authentication and UNC here. An important concept to understand before you start setting up a WebDAV solution using this configuration is the difference in behavior when you are logged on and testing from the IIS server versus testing from a […]
Read More →If you are receiving a 404 error while accessing your custom domain, as shown in Figure 1, then you are most likely missing the link between your Azure App Service Web App configuration and your custom domain. Figure 1, 404 File or directory not found when mapping custom domain Before we move to the solution, […]
Read More →There have been many changes over the years with managing the IIS configuration using scripting. In IIS 6 using WMI which relies on the ADSI model is the recommended approach. However, with the introduction of IIS 7.5 and now IIS 8 there is a new way of doing things. This new way is via the […]
Read More →With the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0, you can enable the logging from within Visual Studio. I wrote another article which discussed how to enable Failed Request Tracing while logged into the Microsoft Azure Management console. You can review that article here. After installing the SDK, open Visual Studio and example the Server Explorer, […]
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