Wednesday, October 13, 2010

When a Patch is not a Patch?

When does turning off IIS' ASP.NET 2.0 Web Service Extension considered a patch? However, in at least one of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday releases, this is exactly what happened (KB953300).

Really, Microsoft?

Actually, I believe it was a flawed fix that disabled the feature in the process of installing the updated dll.

Some references:

http://power-programming.co.uk/post/2009/10/21/ASPNET-stopped-working-after-installing-Microsoft-NET-Framework-20-Service-Pack-1-Update-KB953300-.aspx

http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/ms03-32-issue