Configuring and using FTP with IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 is very easy and straight forward. If you ever used FTP 7 that was released with Windows 2008 …

Using system.net.mail to send email messages from your web site makes life so easy.  In the old days of Classic ASP you often had to rely on 3rd party …

The other day I was helping someone who was trying to configure a wildcard certificate on their Windows Cloud Server. Their server was running Windows 2008 R2 server using …

In case you haven’t heard Windows 8 is now available. As a web developer I think one of the best reasons to upgrade to Windows 8 is that you …

The other day I was checking the traffic stats for my WordPress blog to see which of my posts were the most popular. I was a little concerned to …

Microsoft’s SQL Server Express is a fantastic product for anyone needing a relational database on a limited budget. By limited budget I’m talking free. Yes SQL Server Express is …

If you’re getting started with Windows web development or you just need a lightweight web development tool then check out Microsoft’s WebMatrix 2. Creating, deploying, and maintaining, web sites …

Email is everywhere. You may not know immediately if your web site is down but you’ll almost always know if your email isn’t working.  The ability to send and …

What’s that? Robocopy can send emails? Well not exactly but here’s how you can do it. Robocopy is a free tool from Microsoft that was originally part of Windows …

Microsoft’s Log Parser is a really powerful tool for searching log files. With just a few simple SQL commands you can pull more data than you ever imagined out …