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Jexus Manager: The Open Source Plan

I was at Jiaodong Development Conference 2015 last Saturday, giving a talk on Jexus web server. One important announcement I made there, was to open source Jexus Manager source code. It was not a s...

DockPanel Suite: Docs Site, reStructuredText, and Visual Studio Code

Well, such a long title should match a long post. You’ve been warned! You probably know that Microsoft ASP.NET team did migrate of their documentation several times. Currently, they use Read t...

IIS Express Failures After Upgrading to Visual Studio 2015

The following changes in VS 2015 will affect your development if you upgrade from VS 2012/2013, IIS 7/8 Express is uninstalled, and IIS 10 Express is installed. VS2015 uses <solution folder>...

Jexus Manager: Built-in SSL Diagnostics for IIS and IIS Express

IIS 6 used to have a great troubleshooting tool called SSL Diagnostics (SSL Diag for short). It relied on the ADSI API, so this tool was not made part of IIS 7. Of course you can use the IIS 6 ve...

Some Gaps in Microsoft ASP.NET/IIS Stack and Why Jexus Steps In for The Community

Update: ASP.NET Core 2.0 today is mature enough as the official migration path for ASP.NET 4.x apps on .NET Framework. Thus, spend some time on ASP.NET Core please. ASP.NET/IIS has been the co...

Jexus Manager: Secrets Behind Visual Studio IIS Express Integration

Visual Studio has shipped IIS Express for a few releases. Behind the scene, there are some changes on the integration, but they are hidden and not documented in details. Without such knowledge, man...

Jexus Manager: Renamed and Local IIS Express Custom Configuration Support

I just renamed the first build of Beta 3 back to Jexus Manager 2.0. The removal of “for IIS Express” does not mean IIS Express support is cut (but significantly enhanced if you read further). This ...

Jexus Manager: Troubleshooting IIS Configuration with Jexus Manager for IIS Express Read Only Mode

There are several issues with IIS Manager that you might not be able to use it to troubleshoot IIS configuration issues, IIS Manager strictly requires administrator permissions. Some file err...