IIS Compression in IIS6.0

I've applied gzip compression on IIS 6.0!
It's very simple.

1 step: Enable Compression in IIS
- From the IIS snap-in, right-click on the Web Sites node and click on Properties
- Select the Service tab - Enable Compress application files
- Enable Compress static files
- Save and close the Web Site Properties dialog

2 step:
- Stop "World Wide Web Publishing Service" in System Settings -> Services.
- Open the metabase located at C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\metabase.xml
- Search for <IIsCompressionScheme
- There should be two of them, one for deflate and one for gzip. Basically they are two means of compression that IIS supports.
- First thing to do is add aspx, asmx, php and any other extension that you need to the list extensions in HcScriptFileExtensions. Make sure to follow the existing format carefully, an extra space will keep this from working correctly. Do this for both deflate and gzip.
- Set option HcDynamicCompressionLevel to 9. Do this for both deflate and gzip.
- Start "World Wide Web Publishing Service".

Thanks Scott Forsyth for the post: http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2004/01/12/57916.aspx

p.s.: yes, i'm sorry to say that our customer still use IIS 6.0 in 2010 and he didn't apply compression earlier.

MIME Types

MIME Types

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an Internet standard for describes message content types.

There most popular Mime Types By File Extension:

acx	application/internet-property-stream
asf	video/x-ms-asf
asx	video/x-ms-asf
au	audio/basic
avi	video/x-msvideo
bin	application/octet-stream
bmp	image/bmp
c	text/plain
css	text/css
dll	application/x-msdownload
doc	application/msword
dot	application/msword
exe	application/octet-stream
gif	image/gif
gtar	application/x-gtar
gz	application/x-gzip
h	text/plain
hdf	application/x-hdf
hlp	application/winhlp
hta	application/hta
htc	text/x-component
htm	text/html
html	text/html
ico	image/x-icon
ief	image/ief
iii	application/x-iphone
ins	application/x-internet-signup
isp	application/x-internet-signup
jfif	image/pipeg
jpe	image/jpeg
jpeg	image/jpeg
jpg	image/jpeg
js	application/x-javascript
lsx	video/x-la-asf
m3u	audio/x-mpegurl
mov	video/quicktime
movie	video/x-sgi-movie
mp2	video/mpeg
mp3	audio/mpeg
mpa	video/mpeg
mpe	video/mpeg
mpeg	video/mpeg
mpg	video/mpeg
pdf	application/pdf
pps	application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
ppt	application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
rtf	application/rtf
tgz	application/x-compressed
txt	text/plain
wav	audio/x-wav
xls	application/vnd.ms-excel
zip	application/zip

Source: http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_mimeref.asp

So you want a day off?

So you want a day off?
So you want a day off. Let's take a look at what you are asking for.
There are 365 days per year available for work.
There are 52 weeks per year in which you already have 2 days off per week, leaving 261 days available for work.
Since you spend 16 hours each day away fron work, you have used up 170 days, leaving only 91 days available.
You spend 30 minutes each day on coffee break which counts for 23 days each year, leaving only 68 days available.
With a 1 hour lunch each day, you used up another 46 days, leaving only 22 days available for work.
You normally spend 2 days per year on sick leave.
This leaves you only 20 days per year available for work.
We are off 5 holidays per year, so your available working time is down to 15 days.
We generously give 14 days vacation per year which leaves only 1 day available for work.
There's no way I'll let you take that day off!


Source: http://www.4hb.com/0730soyouwantadayoff.html

Classic ASP - ADO constants include file

Somtimes I need to come back to the very old code. So, just to have it there:

'---- ParameterDirectionEnum Values ----
adParamUnknown = &H0000
adParamInput = &H0001
adParamOutput = &H0002
adParamInputOutput = &H0003
adParamReturnValue = &H0004

'---- CommandTypeEnum Values ----
adCmdUnknown = 0
adCmdText = &H0001
adCmdTable = &H0002
adCmdStoredProc = &H0004

'---- CursorTypeEnum Values ----
adOpenForwardOnly = 0
adOpenKeyset = 1
adOpenDynamic = 2
adOpenStatic = 3

'---- LockTypeEnum Values ----
adLockReadOnly = 1
adLockPessimistic = 2
adLockOptimistic = 3
adLockBatchOptimistic = 4

'---- DataTypeEnum Values ----
adEmpty = 0
adTinyInt = 16
adSmallInt = 2
adInteger = 3
adBigInt = 20
adUnsignedTinyInt = 17
adUnsignedSmallInt = 18
adUnsignedInt = 19
adUnsignedBigInt = 21
adSingle = 4
adDouble = 5
adCurrency = 6
adDecimal = 14
adNumeric = 131
adBoolean = 11
adError = 10
adUserDefined = 132
adVariant = 12
adIDispatch = 9
adIUnknown = 13
adGUID = 72
adDate = 7
adDBDate = 133
adDBTime = 134
adDBTimeStamp = 135
adBSTR = 8
adChar = 129
adVarChar = 200
adLongVarChar = 201
adWChar = 130
adVarWChar = 202
adLongVarWChar = 203
adBinary = 128
adVarBinary = 204
adLongVarBinary = 205

'---------------------end of file

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sources:
http://www.asp101.com/articles/john/adovbs/
http://www.asp101.com/articles/john/adovbs/adovbs.inc.txt
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/PrintSearchContent.asp?LINKID=122

(Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))

Server Error in '...' Application.

Could not load file or assembly '...' or one of its dependencies. The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))

В один прекрасный момент одно из приложений перестало работать выдавая вот такую ошибку, якобы ругаясь на стороннюю библиотеку в Reference-ах, дак вот как оказалось библиотека тут не причем, все в дело в конфликте между новой версией скомпилированного кода и его временной копией в папке C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\
Все что нужно - это вручную почистить временную папку "Temporary ASP.NET Files" и все.

линки:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en/csharpide/thread/352c58ec-65d8-4d77-ac7b-d2338c621ef3/
http://www.solutioncottage.com/ShowSolution.aspx?solID=59

0wnZ youuuuuuuuuuuu !

Сегодня хакнули часть сайтов нашего заказчика (к которым, мы не имеем отношения, заказчик как-то сам их клепает)!
корень сатов забили файлами типа:
index.htm
index.html
index.asp
index.php
default.asp
...
и в каждом из них был следующий текст:
0wnZ youuuuuuuuuuuu !

что же это такое...



(картинка для привлечения внимания взята отсюда: http://img217.imageshack.us/i/tik.png/)

ASP.NET MVC Framework

Сегодня получил по почте книгу Гайдара Магданурова и Владимира Юнева "ASP.NET MVC Framework", заказанную на сайте books.ru.

Давно у меня текли слюнки на MVC Framework, но все то-ли времени не хватало, то-ли просто руки не доходили, а теперь у меня есть живая бумажная книжка :) и я буду читать ее в свободное время, перед сном, в туалете, на даче, в дороге - жаль за рулем не смогу читать :)
Главное, что необходимо извлеч из прочтения - обоснование выбора MVC Framework на замену стандартному WebForms.