Background

I’m using Subversion (via VisualSVN Server) for source control. I recently decided to add daily offsite backup to my setup. This was relatively easy to accomplish with 7-zip, Dropbox, and a batch file.

VisualSVN Server is a free package that makes setting up and managing Subversion on Windows really easy. It includes Subversion, an Apache web server, and a GUI management console.

Dropbox is an easy to use online file storage and synchronization service. It’s free for accounts up to 2GB.

7-zip is a free, open source zip library that can be controlled from the command line. More...

Recently I was working on a WCF Service and wanted to serve it up with extensionless URLs. I downloaded and installed ISAPI Rewrite (Lite version) but struggled to come up with the correct regex expression to get it working.

I found many good blog postings and clues from Scott Gu, Scott Hanselman, and Jeff Atwood, and a thread on Stack Overflow, but none of these answered this specific question. As Scott Hanselman noted, URL rewriting can seem like "freaking voodoo".

So I moseyed on over to the Helicon Tech support forum and More...