This post is about a very helpful, yet largely unknown feature of ASP.NET applications hosted in IIS. A built in maintenance mode so to speak. The app_offline page. If you want to put one of your ASP.NET web apps into maintenance mode, simply create a maintenance .htm page with the markup you want, and name it [...]
I'm writing this post from the Austin airport as I'm getting ready to head home after a very educational 4 days in Austin for VSLive 2015. I wanted to quickly write down a lot of key points from all of the sessions I attended. I figure writing about something is a good way to retain a [...]
We use windows authentication for a lot of our web apps, but also want to serve up a custom 401 error page when users are not authorized to log in. This is tricky because this specific 401 error is handled directly by IIS, rather than the application itself, because it's a windows directory permission. I spent [...]
