How to use httpModules to troubleshoot your ASP.NET application. Create a simple module and play around with this.

This is a collection of my blogs posts that include code from over the last 6 months. There's stuff ranging from a Windows Service monitor that runs in the system tray, to UrlRewriting/UrlMapping, to ASP.NET AJAX, to a JavaScript based Slideshow component, to adding iPhone style flick support to scr...

Managed Fusion Url Rewriter is a powerful URL manipulation engine based on the Apache mod_rewrite extention. It is designed specifically for ASP.NET and runs on Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) and Mono XPS Server and is fully supported in IIS 7.0. Managed Fusion Url Rewriter gives you ...

Did you know ASP.NET runs a "PassportAuthentication" HTTP Module on every request? It does, and many more. Find out how to disable the ones you're not using.

A short talk on building an IIS7 HttpModule with VC# Express and using it with Visual Wed Developer running .NET 2.0.

Great way to be more dynamic with your stylesheets. Allows for more flexible website layouts based on dyanmic information.

Search Term Highlighter HttpModule for ASP.NET

Techniques to move the ViewState to the bottom of the WebForm has been published many times before. What I wanted was adding the functionality to an HttpModule. The technique to move the ViewState is borrowed from Scott Hanselman while the HttpModule implementation is my own. As Scott writes, it is ...

The new System.IO.Compression namespace in .NET 2.0 makes it easy to implement HTTP compression without having to touch IIS. The best thing about it is that you no longer need any third party compression components, it’s all build directly into .NET Framework. There are different ways to implement t...

The WebResource.axd handler is a powerful new addition to asp.net Framework... and it's also a cause of the "WebForm_PostBackOptions not defined" JavaScript error message. But the root cause may really be your httpModules. Read on for more.

People often ask me for guidance on how they can dynamically "re-write" URLs and/or have the ability to publish cleaner URL end-points within their ASP.NET web applications. This blog post summarizes a few approaches you can take to cleanly map or rewrite URLs with ASP.NET, and have the o...

Exposes JavaScript variables to the C# code such as WindowHeight, ColorDepth or whatever JavaScript variable you can think of. Plug 'n play HttpModule - no code required.

Plug this simple HttpModule to your existing web application and all your query strings will automatically be encrypted without you have to change your code.

When an IP address is blocked it stops the response and sends a “403 Forbidden” header.