The error happens when the REST methods (POST, PUT, DELETE, etc). are already registered by another application. The following entries in the web.config helped me to overcome the issue: <system.webServer> <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration=“false“ /> <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests=“true“> <remove name=“WebDAVModule“ /> </modules> <handlers> <remove name=“WebDAV“ /> <remove name=“ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4.0_32bit“ /> <remove name=“ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4.0_64bit“ /> <remove name=“ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0″ /> <add name=“ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4.0_32bit“ path=“*.“ […]
Check Availability of a Server
This checks the availability of a server by sending a ping to the given IP address and waiting a certain amount of time for a response from the server: public static bool ServerAvailable(string ip, int timeout) { Ping pingSender = new Ping(); PingReply reply; try { reply = pingSender.Send(ip, timeout); } catch { return false; […]