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IE Screen Resolution and Caching issues »

I am having multiple problems with IE 8. Here are the two main issues I have:

1. Screen Resolution issue – I don’t understand why a web page would render differently on two different computers, that are on the same OS (Windows XP SP3), using IE 8.06 and the same resolution 1024×768???? The page renders fine on both Chrome and Firefox. As is normal in such cases, the page works fine on IE on my laptop and other machines in the office.
2. Caching issue – We have a desktop application that reads an XML file on the server. While the application works fine on all the machines, on one of the machines, it caches the XML content. The desktop app (C#) uses dataset.readXML and specifies the URL. What is weird is that if we open the XML in IE, it too shows the cached information. If we hit CTRL+F5 in IE, it loads the latest version and interestingly, our desktop application also gets the latest content automatically. I am assuming that the readXML call is using the same libraries that IE is probably using. While we have a workaround on the server side (cache-control and page expires HTTP Headers), I am wondering why it has this problem only on that machine. We did try clearing the cache and set “Check for newer versions of stored pages everytime I visit the page”, but that does not help on the machine.

Any thoughts?

Microsoft WebMatrix – a free web development environment »

As from the Microsoft website:WebMatrix is everything you need to build Web sites using Windows. It includes IIS Developer Express (a development Web server), ASP.NET (a Web framework), and SQL Server Compact (an embedded database). It streamlines Web site development and makes it easy to start Web sites from popular open-source apps. The skills and code you develop with WebMatrix transition seamlessly to Visual Studio and SQL Server.

Just like XAMPP, WebMatrix provides you a complete web development environment on Windows, that supports both ASP.Net and PHP. WebMatrix supports a new scripting syntax, called Razor for ASP.Net web pages. It also has a built-in SEO report to make the site more visible to search engines. With built-in support for FTP, publishing the site to production environment is also easy.