ASP.NET

Disable GZIP compression for IE6 clients

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We need to conditionally disable GZIP compression if user’s browser is IE6 (it hangs browser for 5min) in few pages of larger site. Server is IIS7 and has compression for static content turned on – want that compression left working if user agent is not Mozilla/4.0. ASPX code sample anyone?
Alternatively, code to conditionally redirect to the same page on another site (could create another virtual site with compression disabled) but need to pass all parameters (GET/POST).

Events tab randomly appears and disappears in VS 2008

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I know it’s a minor annoyance.. but it’s still an annoyance and it baffles me.. About 3 months ago I was using VS 2008 and when I went to the “Properties” tab there was the little lightning bolt for events(in design mode). Then it suddenly went away.. about a week later I discovered that if I didn’t have the properties tab “stickied”, then the events thing would be there, but not when its stickied.