Microsoft is readying a first public beta of a new Web server, known as IIS Express. The IIS Express release "combines the use of the Microsoft ASP.Net Web Server with the full power of IIS," which is ...

Several weeks ago I noted that Windows .Net Server will be available in a new edition with no analog to previous versions we've come to know and love. The big picture on this new edition, called ...

Microsoft began shipping this week IIS (Internet Information Services) Express 7.5, a free version of its IIS Web server optimized for developers. The company also unveiled an embedded database ...

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database. In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications ...

A computer that runs a website. Using the HTTP protocol, the Web server delivers Web pages to browsers as well as other data files to Web-based applications. The Web server includes the hardware, ...

Learn to handle runtime errors using exceptions and return appropriate error codes and error messages in ASP.NET Web API. Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web API is a ...

I've (for the most part) completed my first installation and configuration of .NET Web Server.<BR><BR>During installation, there are <i>no options</i> as for components to install or not ...