Mike Mosey is his Rackspace Cloud Blog post addressed how to run multiple Websites on an Apache server. What if you are running IIS7 on a Windows server? Well - yes you can - easily run multiple websites on one IP using Host Headers (bindings in IIS). In this brief post, I'll describe how to set it up in IIS. [More]

DotNetNuke is a well established open source, content management system (CMS). The platform allows users to develop multiple portals with different domain aliases using a single installation. Depending on your host though, you may have issues with URL cannonicalization. In plain English, this means that users that browse to your site with http://falconwebtech.com are redirected with a permanent 301 redirect to http://www.falconwebtech.com. It doesn't really matter which one you use, but to avoid duplicate content and enhance your sites' SEO rankings, pick one and follow the instructions below to setup the redirect on Windows IIS7. [More]

The Internet Information Services 7 (IIS 7) URL Rewrite Module in Windows Server 2008 provides an import feature that truly simplifies the process of converting Apache mod_rewrite rules to IIS URL rewrite rules. You simply use the Import Rules feature provided in the URL Rewrite Module to import several mod_rewrite rules into an IIS configuration file. If you have not yet downloaded the URL Rewrite Module, you can do so at http://www.iis.net/download/urlrewrite [More]

This sample makes use of a WCF custom MessageInspector as described in the MSDN documentation. A message inspector is an extensibility object that can be used in the service model's client runtime and dispatch runtime programmatically or through configuration and that can inspect and alter messages after they are received or before they are sent. The sample here is derived from Oren Trutner's article “Signing Amazon Product Advertising API – C#/WCF.” Oren’s example is extended to allow all the configuration to occur in the application configuration (app.config) file. All of the Amazon helper methods have been moved to a separate library that can be used/referenced in any project. A separate console app has been included that demonstrates how to use the app.config file to configure the WCF endpoints and how to add the custom MessageInspector behavior to the endpoint. [More]

Combining file I/O with compression can consume a ton of memory. The .NET C# compression library SharpZipLib provides excellent objects for building and working with compressed archives in memory using streams. [More]

Adding schemaLocation to a namespace in LINQ to XML is simple if you follow a few simple constraints. [More]

In this part, we examine how to use another custom text message encoder to modify the security header of a WCF message to be interoperable with a non-WCF service. [More]

Out of the box, Windows Communication Foundation is perfectly suited for simple WCF-to-WCF exchanges. However, the diverse communication requirements of most real world applications aren’t simple. For interactions with a high-availability client application, for instance, performance is paramount. Interoperability is straightforward, if the client and service are built on the .NET Framework. For communication with an existing Java EE-based application or with diverse partner applications, however, interoperability becomes the highest goal. [More]

An XM Radio Gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar. Works with the new XM/SIRIUS player. Use your XM Radio Online account to listen right from your Windows Vista sidebar. [More]

Recently, I was experimenting with LightWindow in a DotNetNuke portal. The scripts work great in Firefox, but were giving me fits in IE7. I checked out the LightWindo forums and discovered the fix was setting the DOCTYP [More]