iis
Scott Mitchell says the best new ASP.NET feature in VS.NET 2005 is the integrated webserver. I agree. No more ditzing around with annoying IIS dependencies and install issues: aspnet_regiis, anyone? Tight coupling of VS.NET to IIS is also number three in K Scott Allen’s worst
asp.net
At work, we have the luxury of assuming that everyone’s on an intranet. So when it comes to identity management on our ASP.NET websites, NTLM authentication is the go-to solution. Why trouble the user with Yet Another Login Dialog when you can leverage the built in NTLM functionality
iis
Isn’t it annoying how deleting a folder from your wwwroot$ doesn’t automatically remove the corresponding website in IIS? You have to go into IIS and delete the website. If you’re lazy like me, you probably have about a dozen left-over zombie websites waiting to be deleted (or
.net 1.0
This is something of a dying art, since Microsoft is doing their level best to pretend that .NET 1.0 doesn’t exist any more – but here are a few key utilities you’ll need when running .NET 1.0 and 1.1 side by side. Each website on an
debugging
I debug remotely at home, mostly because I prefer not using the crippleware version of IIS. It's kind of a pain to get it running, because you have to be more careful with permissions and configuration, but basically it works. At least, it worked until I installed XP