Installing large numbers of files with WIX

Many posts (e.g.: http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2007/06/dealing-with-very-large-number-of-files.html, http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2007/10/19/wix-the-pain-of-wix-part-2-of-3.aspx, http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2007/06/burning-in-hell-with-heat.html) have been written about the problem of adding large number...

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From IIS6 maxRequestLength to IIS7 maxAllowedContentLengthFile - specifying maximum file upload size

IIS6 uses the maxRequestLength config setting under the system.web section to specify maximum file upload size with a default of 4 MB.  IIS7 uses the maxAllowedContentLength config setting under the system.webServer section to specify maximum file upload size with a default of 28.6 MB.  This is something to watch out for when migrating your web application from IIS6 to IIS7.  Read on for more information how I found out about this...

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Generating a random strong password

The ASP.NET Membership system has a static method built-in for this.  You can use the GeneratePassword static method from the Membership class to create a new password: String strongPassword = System.Web.Security.Membership.GeneratePassword(8, 1); From the MSDN documentation, the two parameters are: length – Int32 The number of characters in the generated password. The length must be between 1 and 128 characters. numberOfNonAlphanumericCharacters...

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