Skype blocking 80 and 443 ports, Unable to have a local site with SSL

I was trying to add SSL to one of my local sites, but the site was always stopped, the issue was that skype was taking over the ports, see below hoe to fix it. When trying to start an IIS7 website, you can get the following message: “The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070020)”:  It’s...

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Using the Bundling and Minification Web Optimisations with Asp.Net WebForms App_Themes

The bundling and minification that arrived with the latest .Net 4.5 framework is a great tool. For those web applications that are using the WebForms App_Themes folder to style an application, it won't quite work as well as it is capable of. The App_Themes folder will automatically render down all CSS files it finds in the folder and sub directories, so if you register these files in your bundle config you will end up with two versions of the stylesheet...

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GZip compress your website's HTML/CSS/Script in code

Cool C# Snippets - Dynamically GZIP compress the HTML response of your website in code, without having to configure IIS directly. Make massive savings on your websites bandwidth. Dynamic GZIP Compression in Code I recently found a way to GZIP compress the HTML, CSS and Javascript output from an ASP.NET website, dynamically in code. GZIP compression can drastically reduce the file sizes for any text based file served to the client. This includes...

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