How to release port 80

Few days ago, I fall in a problem. I could not start apache server by XAMP control panel. There was a message shown port 80 busy. However ultimately, I found the solution this was due to IIS server. IIS Server was running on port 80 at that time.

Here is the step by step procedure, how I release port 80

1. Go to command prompt.
2. Check which process is using port 80

• On the command prompt window, type the following command.
  

  netstat -o -n -a | findstr 0.0:80

• You will see the following screen
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The last column is process Id column

Open Task Manager to check the process ID

1. Right click on the taskbar to open the the task manager.
2. Go to the Processes tab.
3. Click the View menu
4. And make sure you select the PID (Process Identifier) as shown in the image below.

Now you can see which process is using which PID and description like the following.

Stop the services

1. Go to Task Manager.
2. Click the Services tab
3. Arrange the Services by description or by
   
4. For IIS I found Service name as IIS Admin
   
5. Right click on it and select Stop Sevice.

Solution disappears in solution explorer : Visual Studio 2010

I installed visual studio 2010 in my pc. I created a blank solution. When ever I add a project to the solution the original i.e root solution is disappear. This means that as soon as you add a project to a blank solution, the solution disappears and you are unable to add another project. I spent a lot of time to solve the problem. It is very easy.

To do this, goto tools->options->Projects and Solution and check the "Always show solution" option.

Global variable of ASP.net

Global variables are those variables that can be accessed anywhere in the application. Global variable should always be used with caution. It stores data. The most common way of accessing global variables in ASP.net are by using Application, Cache, and Session Objects.

Application - Application objects are application level global variables, that need to be shared for all user sessions. Thus, data specific to a user should'nt be saved in application objects. While using application objects, the objects are locked so that multiple page requests cannot access a specific application object. Below is a code example for usage of application object...

Application.Lock();
Application("UserData") = "dotnetuncle";
Application.UnLock();
Response.Redirect("DestinationPage.aspx");

//DestinationPage.aspx gets the value from the Application State
String sString = Application("UserData").ToString();

Cache - The cache object is similar to the application object in scope, however, it does not need any explicit locking and unlocking. Code below shows usage of Cache object...

Cache("Userdata") = "dotnetuncle";
Response.Redirect("DestinationPage.aspx");

//Destination.aspx retrieves the value from Cache object
String sString = Cache("Userdate").ToString();

The cache object also shares data across all user sessions. The cache object has features like it can automatically expire cached content after specified time periods or once memory consumption has reached a maximum.

Session - The session object is used to store the data specific to a user for the entire length of a user's visit to a website. Below is a code that shows usage of the session object in ASP.NET ...

//InitialPage.aspx stores the user’s credentials in Session state
Session("UserName") = txtUserName.Text;
Server.Transfer("DestinationPage.aspx");

//DestinationPage.aspx gets the user’s name from Session state
String sString = Session("UserName").ToString();

ASP.NET stores session values in the server memory. If there are plenty of active user's of a website, then the memory consumption on the server increases by leaps. Because of this reason, large websites use very less Session Variables. Session state can be configured to be automatically stored in a SQL Server database, or it can be configured to be stored centrally in a state server within a server farm. By default, a user’s session ends 20 minutes after their last page request and their data goes out of scope, freeing it from memory. In case user information is to be tracked by a large website, then a oookie is preferred.

Cookie - A cookie is a piece of data that is stored on a user's browser. Thus, a cookie does not use any server memory.