Solution for HTTP Error 500.21 – Internal Server Error – Bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” on IIS 7.5

This problem has been encountered after the production server has been upgraded to Windows Sever 2008 R2 and the ASP.NET solution has been moved on the .NET 4.0 platform. The ASP.NET application was put to run in a ASP.NET v4.0 with Integrated Managed Pipeline application pool. The application was updated using Visual Studio 2010.After installing the necessary IIS […]

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How to read application settings from the Web.config file of an ASP.NET Website

There are many situations, in the development of an ASP.NET application, when particular values must be made visible from different Web Forms or code routines. These values can represent: –    global values or keys associated with an application setting;–    connections strings for databases–    passwords and hash values–    URLs for Web Services The web.config file is […]

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Solution for localhost problem in Firefox

If you develop Web sites on your local machine and not on a remote server then you want to test them. For that, it is used the URL of your local Web server (IIS, Apache, Tomcat) which is http://localhost.When using Microsoft IE there is no problem but for Firefox, because some security issues, the browser […]

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How to install IIS on Windows 7 and Vista

This solution describes installation of IIS 7 (Internet Information Services) on Windows 7 Ultimate, Vista using the Windows Features Wizard. An alternative to this solution is to use Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI). It is available at http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx.  The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes it simple […]

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