I experienced this issues this morning and a quick search shows lot of people faced the same issue. IIS manager is not installed by default on Windows 7/2008 machines, you need to explicitly turn it on as shown below

Turning just WWW services will install all the IIS related stuff, but it won't install the IIS manager.

Nandri!

Saravana

Introduction

In this article we are going to see the end to end integration of Azure AppFabric Service bus and Silverlight. First we are going to create a very basic "Hello World" Silverlight application that interacts with a WCF operation called "GetWelcomeText" and displays the text returned in the UI. In order to explain the core concepts clearly, we are going to keep the sample as simple as possible. The initial solution is going to look as shown below. The SL application hosted on a local IIS/AppFabric(server) web server and accessed via a browser as shown below.

Next, we are going to extend the same sample "Hello World" example to introduce Azure AppFabric service bus as shown in the below picture and show the power of AppFabric Service bus platform, which enables us to use the remote WCF services hosted geographically somewhere in the wild.

Original Source: http://blogs.digitaldeposit.net/saravana

The first part of the article doesn't going to touch anything on Azure AppFabric service bus, it's all about creating a simple SL/WCF application.

Create a Hello World Silverlight Application

Open Visual Studio (use Run as Administrator), and Click New Project from the Start page, which will bring the "New Project" window as shown below

Select Silverlight from Installed Templates, and choose "Silverlight Application" from the list. Provide "AppFabricSBandSLIntegration" as the name and click OK. In the next screen ("New Silverlight Application"), just leave the default values and click OK. The solution structure will look as shown below.

Add a simple WCF service:

Right click on AppFabricSBandSLIntegration.Web ASP.NET application and select "Add New Item", which brings the "Add New Item" window as shown below.

Select "Web" from Installed templates and "WCF Service" from the list provide "AdminService.svc" as the name and click "Add".

Next, rename the default method name "DoWork" to "GetWelcomeText" and changed the return type from "void" to "string" both in IAdminService.cs and AdminService.cs files. The implementation now looks as shown below.

Rebuild the solution by pressing Ctrl+Shift+B.

Convert the web application to use IIS:

By default the ASP.NET web application will be configured to run on a local server (cassini), for our demo we are going to configure it to run under IIS/AppFabric(server). Right click on the AppFabricSBandSLIntegration.Web project, select "Properties". In the properties windows select "Web" from LHS and select the option "Use Local IIS Web Server". Click on "Create Virtual Directory" button to create the virtual directory and click OK on the popup window (you must have opened Visual Studio by Run as Administrator; else this step will give error.)

Build the solution by pressing Ctrl+Shift+B, and navigate to http://localhost/AppFabricSBandSLIntegration.Web/AdminService.svc and make sure no errors encountered.

Configure web.config file with appropriate WCF settings

For this step we are going to use the WCF service configuration tool SvcConfigEditor.exe. Open a Visual Studio command prompt and type SvcConfigEditor.exe. Once the application is opened, click File/Open and navigate to web.config file found under AppFabricSBandSLIntegration.Web folder.

Click on "Create a New Service" link and click the browse button. Navigate to AppFabricSBandSLIntegration.Web/bin/ AppFabricSBandSLIntegration.Web.dll and select AppFabricSBandSLIntegration.Web.AdminService once selected the screen should look as shown below

Click on the "Next" button in the wizard and make sure the contract is selected as shown below.

Click "Next", On "What communication mode is your service using?" option select "HTTP"

Click "Next", On "What method of interoperability do you want to use?" option select "Basic web service interoperability"

Click "Next", On "What's your address of your end point", clear http:// and click "Yes" on the warning.

On the final summary screen, click "Finish". Your web.config file will now look as shown below.

Rebuild the solution by pressing Ctrl+Shift+B. Right click on AdminService.svc file and select "View in Browser". Make sure it displays as shown below without any errors.

Now we have completed all the required stuff on the WCF services side, let's move on to the client side Silverlight application.

Prepare the Silverlight application to communicate with the WCF Service.

Add Service Reference:

The very first step is to create the service reference to our AdminService.svc WCF service. Right click on the AppFabricSBandSLIntegration Silverlight project and select "Add Service Reference", which will bring the window as shown below.

Paste the url of our AdminService.svc file and click "Go". Once the service is resolved, provide "AdvancedServiceReference" as the namespace and click "OK".

The above step should automatically add ServiceReference.ClientConfig file to the AppFabricSBandSLIntegration Silverlight project as shown below.

Open the MainPage.xaml file and add a TextBlock as shown in the below snippet.

Open the MainPage.Xaml.cs file and add the following lines of code. Basically we are instantiating the proxy client, hooking up the "Completed" event and call the asyn method GetWelcomeTextAsync. Once we receive the response from WCF service, SL runtime will automatically execute the code present in the event handler. We are simply displaying the "Hello World from WCF Service" text returned from WCF service in the text block we created in the previous step.

At this stage everything is completed and pressing the "F5" button should execute the ASP.NET/Silverlight application and display the following result

In part 2 of the article, we'll see how we can introduce Azure AppFabric Service bus in the middle between the Silverlight client and the WCF service. You may be wondering, why I have used the SvcConfigEditor.exe to configure the WCF service rather just simply asking the user to paste 4 lines of configuration Xml. The main reason for using the tool is, when we modify the configuration for Azure AppFabric Service Bus, it makes it easy to understand all the available configuration options.

Nandri

Saravana Kumar

I'm in the process of migrating biztalk247.com to a new hosting provider. After deploying the application, I started doing the performance testing using Visual Studio Web/Load test features. I configured the IIS Application Pool to have a web garden (more than one worker process w3wp.exe) to serve the incoming requests. The application pool also got settings to recycle the worker process after certain usage of virtual memory/physical memory.

During the test, once the virtual/physical memory limit is reached, the worker process will recycle. As soon as this occurs I started noticing entries in the eventlog with following warning message

A process serving application pool 'biztalk247' terminated unexpectedly. The process id was '12308'. The process exit code was '0xc0000005'. (Event ID: 1009)

and an error message

Faulting application w3wp.exe, version 6.0.3790.3959, stamp 45d6968e, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, stamp 00000000, debug? 0, fault address 0x001f0001. (Event ID 1000)

Eventually after few of these errors, IIS Application pool will shut down and started getting 503 Service Unavailable.

After doing a bit of research I found this KB article really useful http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918041. According to this article, whenever a worker process shuts down it writes some information to the registry at the following location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<ASP.NETVersion>\Names and there is not enough permission to do so. I checked the location in the server and to my surprise I can't see the "Names" key. I created it manually and tried to assign the permission to IIS_WPG group as described in the KB article, but as soon as I right-click and select "Permissions" I got some kind of warning message saying the list is not in the order ("I didn't capture the exact error message").

For me it looks like ASP .NET 2.0 is not configured correctly. So I decided to uninstall and install ASP.NET 2.0 using the aspnet_regiis (-u and -i switch) to be on the safe side, since its the early stages of deployment.

After doing so, I right clicked on the "Names" key and didn't see any warnings.

I reran the test again, this time the worker process shutdown properly without any warnings/errors. Looking at the registry revealed ASP.NET has written some values under the key "Names" as shown in the picture below.

Nandri!

Saravana

One of my supporting project required building a web site using TreeView control to show hierarchical data. I used "NavigateUrl" property while data binding, so that every node in the tree view will have proper link something like http://abc.com/bts/default.aspx instead of Javascript:__doPostBack. Even though all of my pages are going to have the treeview control on the left, I'll lose the expanded status because the control will be navigated to a brand new page and whole page will be loaded from scratch. So, my requirement is to set the treeview expanded status programmatically.

What do you think of this line of code?

TreeView1.FindNode("BizTalk Server|Planning and Architecture|Patterns").Expand();

("|" is the path separator)

Perfectly alright right? But, the output will only expand the node till "Planning and Architecture", I tried different things like putting the code in different event handlers like page_prerender, treeview_databound, navigating to the node via Nodes and ChildNodes property etc, etc. Whatsoever I couldn't make it work. Google search revealed similar problems but no solution. At last I managed to find the solution from the book "Professional ASP .NET 2.0" (Page: 525) the code should be written this way:

TreeView1.FindNode("BizTalk Server").Expand();

TreeView1.FindNode("BizTalk Server|Planning and Architecture").Expand();

TreeView1.FindNode("BizTalk Server|Planning and Architecture|Patterns").Expand();

Extract from the book:

"Note that you had to expand each of the nodes individually until you got to the "Planning and Architecture" node, If you simply used TreeView1.FindNode("BizTalk Server|Planning and Architecture|Patterns").Expand(); in the treeview1_DataBound method, the "Pattern" node would indeed be expanded, but the parent nodes above it ("Planning and Architecture" and "BizTalk Server") would not have been expanded and you wouldn't see the expanded "Patterns" node when invoking the page. (Try it; it's interesting.)"

What a weird programming style they have adapted for this? Is it not just common sense the control should expand all its parent node to show itself? The last sentence "Try it; it's interesting" is actually present in the book. I was almost about to buy a commercial product, just thinking there is a huge bug in the ASP .NET 2.0 Treeview control.

Nandri!

Saravana