IIS ASP.Net Website – ManagedPipelineHandler Error ( An operation was attempted on a nonexistent network connection)

I am experiencing a strange issue. I have an ASP.Net web application that uses Forms Authentication. If I open the log-in page and there is a couple of minutes of inactivity, the log-in attempt times out or IE / FireFox display “Cannot display this page”. If there is no pause or lack of activity, there is no issue and the website run as expected.

Normalization of Strings With String.ToUpperInvariant()

I am currently storing normalized versions of strings in my SQL Server database in lower case. For example, in my Users table, I have a UserName and a LoweredUserName field. Depending on the context, I either use T-SQL’s LOWER() function or C#’s String.ToLower() method to generate the lower case version of the user name to fill the LoweredUserName field. According to Microsoft’s guidelines and Visual Studio’s code analysis rule CA1308, I should be using C#’s String.ToUpperInvariant() instead of ToLower(). According to Microsoft, this is both a performance and globalization issue: converting to upper case is safe, while converting to lower case can cause a loss of information (for example, the Turkish ‘I’ problem).