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Monitor .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap from your web application
Use Zabbix to monitor your web application and application pool’s .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap by utilizing WMI and PowerShell.
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How to optimize Umbraco 8 performance
Out of the box, Umbraco is a well built and pretty fast content management system. However, it is still important you perform some steps to further optimize Umbraco’s performance and loading speed.
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How to fix System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException “The given key was not present in the dictionary” Exception with MySQL Connector/NET and utf8mb4 character set
MySQL Connector/NET and utf8mb4 character set can cause an exception System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException “The given key was not present in the dictionary”.
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11+ Tips to optimize Umbraco 7 CMS
Umbraco 7 is a popular, ASP.NET powered, content management system (CMS). Out of the box Umbraco performs pretty well, but there are still some areas you need to tweak and tune for a more performant Umbraco website. Here are 11+ tips.
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MySQL Connector/ODBC C# test script
Whenever you need to test your ASP.NET connection to your MySQL database, using ODBC, you can use the following C# test script. Currently it uses MySQL ODBC 8.0 Unicode Driver, but you can easily change the version used
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Use authenticated SMTP over TLS encrypted connections, in PHP, ASP and ASP.NET
Send mail over authenticated SMTP using TLS, in PHP, ASP and ASP.NET. Send email securely from your website. Ready to use examples!
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Remove IIS Server version HTTP Response Header
Windows Server IIS loves to tell the world that a website runs on IIS. It does so with the “Server:” header in the HTTP response, as shown below. In this post I’ll show you how to remove HTTP response headers in Windows Server IIS. You don’t want to give hackers too much information about your servers, right?.
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.svc WCF web service returns 404 Not Found in IIS 8
When the .svc web service handler doesn’t work in IIS with ASP.NET 4.5 and returns a 404 Not Found error, you may need to add an extra handler to IIS. Read on…
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Add (custom) headers to MailMessage class
The System.Net.Mail Namespace leaves out the required Message-ID header in email. Here is how you can add this important header to your email, to make sure email arrives.
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Configure SQLServer sessionState for Umbraco
Configure Umbraco for SQLServer sessionState storage and prepare Umbraco for high performance web garden or web farm, and load balancing environments. This post explains it all.
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Target multiple ASP.NET versions with AppCmd.exe
Address both x86 and x64 versions of .NET with AppCmd. When administering an IIS web server you frequently have to use AppCmd.exe to make configuration changes. Whether it is for a specific web site or server wide. Some think AppCmd is very limited, but here is how you can target multiple ASP.NET versions with AppCmd!
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Test MySQL database connectivity with MySql.Data.MySqlClient
MySql.Data.MySqlClient ASP.NET test script
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Fix “Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel” error
Fix “System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.” in ASP.NET on IIS
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MySQL Connector/NET 6.5 in partial trust
How to use MySQL Connector/NET 6.5 with MySqlClientPermission Class in partial (medium) trust
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How-to: limited Socket.Net.SocketPermission in ASP.NET 2.0 Medium Trust
It’s possible to restrict System.Net.SocketPermission, for example, for an external MySQL connection. Here is your “Granting limited SocketPermission in ASP.NET 2.0 medium trust” how-to.