Tag Archives: C#

Configure IIS Website with SSL

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To secure your website you can use SSL and certificates. In this post I will explain in detail how to setup your site to use a certificate, including the details of installing your own Certification Authority. Finally I will show you some C# code to work with certificates.

Part 1 will show you how to install the Certificate Authority on a Windows 2003 machine, part 2 is about creating a new website,
part 3 shows how to request a webserver certificate,
part 4 shows you how to send the request to the Certification Authority,
part 5 shows you how the CA processes the request,
part 6 shows you how to download and install the certificate on the website, 
part 7 shows you how to create a virtual folder.
Part 8 shows you how to test ths site together with some coding examples in C#.

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Enable the ASP.NET page again

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asp.net.logoSometimes your ASP.NET tab disappears in the IIS manager. To show this tab again follow the steps below.

Steps involved

  1. Stop the IIS Admin service (and any services that depend on it)
  2. Open C:WINDOWSsystem32inetsrvMetaBase.xml in notepad or your favorite XML Editor. DELETE the line that reads ‘Enable32BitAppOnWin64=”TRUE”‘
  3. Start -> Run -> iisreset
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Using MSMQ with C#

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First add the MSMQ component to your windows installation. Go to Add Remove programs; Add Windows Components; Select Aplication Server; press Details and check Message Queuing

Press Ok; press Finish

Configure the Message and Queing service to restart when errors occur.

  1. Go to “Start -> Administrative tools -> Computer Management”.
  2. Expand “Services and Applications”.
  3. Sselect “Services”.
  4. Select “Message Queuing”; right click and select “Properties”.
  5. Select the “Recovery tab”.
  6. Select “Restart the Service” for first, second and subsequent failures.


Create a new C# Forms project / solution with Visual Studio 2008. Add a reference to the System.Messaging .NET dll.

Add two Forms to the project. Place in the constructor of Form1 the following code: 

//Q Creation 

if(MessageQueue.Exists(@".Private$MyQueue")) 
    mq = new System.Messaging.MessageQueue(@".Private$MyQueue"); 
else 
    mq = MessageQueue.Create(@".Private$MyQueue");
Queue2 q2 = new Queue2();
q2.Show();
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