Here are some nice step by step directions for getting HTTP Compression setup in IIS6.
They also link to a nice site that will do a compression test for you on the public side.
I was trying to test stuff that wasn’t public, so I figured out how to test this with Fiddler.
Once you start a trace with fiddler, if you select a session, they will check a box next to the type of compression None/GZIP/Deflate, which was used.
I have recently needed to create some more complex mailto links than people normally use. I need to populate the subject and body with text that is pulled from a DB, so there are lots of random characters in there like @, #, &, -, _, etc…
Most of these won’t work, and need to be escaped.
The most effective way I found was to use the ascii HEX code in this format:
%2D = “-”
%45 = “E”
I’m not going to write too much about this, but we have been seeing a LOT of recycles of our web application, which makes us lose session for everyone logged it.
I am just going to archive a few links I have been using to track down this problem.
ScottGu has some reflection code to get the reason the process is shutting down that I converted to vb.net
And here are some places discussing the issue:
This is a 3 part article on the use of design patterns in ASP.NET.
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/33695
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/33889
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/article/34220
This article shows a open source neural network component that the author uses for verification of written characters.
It looks like from this article that the author is showing how to use remoting to interact with a windows form running on a server.
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/RemoteWinControls.asp
Pretty interesting.
I have written a few programs in .Net that utilize Active Directory (AD), and what a pain it was.
Here is an article where the author created classes to encapsulate some of the objects in AD, which is pretty similar to what I did.
Keywords: LDAP, AD, Active Directory
If you are Microsoft, why do you create a function “TypeOf” that has totally differnet applications in VB and C#?
Typeof in C# is like GetType in VB, where VB uses TypeOf to see if 2 types are the same or check for interface implementation.
Kinda dumb.
I came across this offer where you get $50 free (I haven’t read the details) for using Microsofts adCenter (just like adwords I guess).
http://www.startadcenter.com/lcoff/
Here is a nice document showing the mailto syntax.
Chris May 