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HTTP as a protocol is a request/reply communication mechanism which means that the server respond only if it is initiated as request from the client. Because of this nature of the HTTP protocol, some tricks are needed to make it look like a duplex transport, where both the client and the server can send...

WCF as part of the .NET Framework supports different OS platforms, providing accessibility over many protocols including HTTP, TCP, IPC and MSMQ. But not every WCF host support the entire suite of protocols which limiting your options at times. Beyond this fact, other features available to the hosting...

Few year ago, when I was being an ASP.NET enthusiast, I had to deal with the problem known as hop the credential over servers. It looks that this problem still is the major pain for the most of ASP.NET developers, because many of them so often asks me that they lose the user credentials connecting to...

If you try to deploy Silverlight2 on a production web server, all you can see is nothing more than blank canvas. The problem is that the web server is not set up to handle the .xap file extension that Silverlight2 uses to encapsulate the code for the application. Just follow this nice article for...

Everyone who knows Kerberos will agree that it is still one of the most secure authentication mechanism but at the same time it is the dubious task to configure Kerberos authentication because his complexity and presents a difficult task to undertake if you don't know how. As with most things, if...

Windows Server 2008 Security Guide is available on Microsoft TechNet site and my favorite subject inside is actually IIS7 related chapter ( Chapter 6: Hardening Web Services ). This chapter focuses on how to harden Web servers running Windows Server 2008. The Web Server role by default installs IIS 7...