Mar 18, 2009
Today is a BIG day for the Microsoft Web Platform and a BIG day for the WEB. I’m down in Las Vegas at MIX and I just got off stage from the keynote where I demo’d just one of the many exciting and cool new things that make the Microsoft Web Platform...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS News ItemIIS Media ServicesCommerceToolsmix09
Feb 20, 2009
Back in May of 2007 I posted a tips for Classic ASP developers post which has since received more than 50 comments and 85,000 views. Robert McMurray just posted a set of fabulous tutorials for Classic ASP developers. If you’re out there and...
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Tags: IIS7TroubleshootingCompatibilityIIS News ItemDevelopersASP
Feb 16, 2009
The Application Request Router (ARR) has reached final release and is now available as a free, fully-supported download for IIS7! ARR enables Web server administrators and hosting providers and to increase Web application reliability and scalability...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS News Item
Jan 27, 2009
The ASP.NET team just released the near-final build of ASP.NET MVC! Download it today! The tools team added a ton of new features in this release that you’ll want to check out – ScottGu outlines all of the new features and improvements in...
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Tags: ASP.NETDevelopersVisual Web Developer ExpressMVC
Jan 21, 2009
I’m excited to announce the immediate availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer v 1.0 . The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that makes it very easy to download and install Microsoft's entire Web Platform in one step,...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS News ItemDevelopersAdministratorsExtensionsDeployment
Jan 20, 2009
If you’ve ever tried to find information on how to install a particular IIS7 feature, or how to configure it using the IIS Manager tool, AppCmd.exe, the new Microsoft.Web.Administration interface or WMI provider, this post is for you. Every IIS7...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS News ItemDevelopersAdministratorsConfigurationTutorial
Jan 13, 2009
Choices abound for those looking for a place to run Web applications on Windows. The purpose of this blog post is to show a quick walkthrough of how to setup your first Windows computer in the cloud on Amazon EC2. If you’re already familiar...
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Tags: ASP.NETIIS News ItemDevelopersAdministratorsTutorialDeployment
Dec 08, 2008
Starting up a Web business, especially in this economy, isn’t easy. Microsoft wants to make it easier. A few weeks ago we announced Microsoft BizSpark , a new program specifically for Web start-ups which makes it very easy to get access to...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS News ItemDevelopers
Nov 24, 2008
I’m excited to announce the availability of the Release Candidate version of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI). **Update 1/20/2009 - the final v1.0 release is now available !** Web PI is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS News ItemDevelopersAdministratorsExtensionsDeployment
Nov 24, 2008
In case you haven’t already heard the news, ASP.NET will now be enabled on Windows Server Core starting with Windows Server 2008 R2. If you're not familiar with Server Core, it is a low footprint Server installation option that lays down just the...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS News ItemDevelopersAdministrators
Nov 20, 2008
Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has. I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos. And with each new...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETExtensibilityAdministrationTroubleshootingIIS News ItemDevelopersPerformanceVideosMediaAdministratorsConfigurationSecurityDeployment
Nov 13, 2008
I’m excited to announce that IIS has released a Release Candidate of the new IIS7 Application Request Routing (ARR) extension! ARR enables Web server administrators to easily scale-out Web applications and improve reliability through HTTP-level...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS News ItemPerformanceAdministratorsExtensionsDeployment
Nov 11, 2008
I’m happy to announce that IIS7 Extensions have found their home at http://www.iis.net/extensions Every since IIS7 shipped 9 months ago, the IIS team has been cranking away adding new features to the platform. Last time I blogged about how we do this...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETPHPExtensibilityIIS News ItemMediaFastCGIAdministratorsConfigurationExtensionsSecurityURL RewriteDeployment
Nov 10, 2008
I’m excited to announce that the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is finished and available for download. For more information on some last minute features we added, and how to download it, see Ruslan’s blog post here: http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETPHPDevelopersAdministratorsExtensionsURL Rewrite
Nov 03, 2008
Now this is something you don't see every day! I ran across Helicon Tech's latest IIS module today, called Helicon APE , which stands for Ap ache E mulation. This looks like a very cool module for those who want to ‘emulate’ Apache’s runtime environment...
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