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Announcing: IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit Beta 1

CarlosAg Blog — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:24:00 GMT

Today we are releasing the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit . The IIS SEO Toolkit is a set of features that aim to help you keep your Web site and its content in good shape for both Users and Search Engines. The features that are included in this Beta release include: Site Analysis. This feature includes a crawler that starts looking at your Web site contents, discovering links, downloading the contents and applying a set of validation rules aimed to help you easily troubleshoot common problems such as broken links, duplicate content, keyword analysis, route analysis and many more features that will help you improve the overall quality of your Web site. Robots Exclusion Editor. This includes a powerful editor to author Robots Exclusion...(read more)

Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta Released

CarlosAg Blog — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Today we are releasing a new Web Site at http://www.microsoft.com/web/ where users can get a one stop shop for learning about the Microsoft Web Platform. This is part of a bigger effort to make it easier to get started with building and running Web Applications on Windows and IIS. As part of this a new tool called the Web Platform Installer Beta is also being released to help you getting started installing and getting all the software that you need from a single place without having to hunt around for installers, links or anything else. Just launch the tool, choose the software and configuration you are interested and it takes care of validating and installing pre-requisites. This tool will let you easily setup your development machines for...(read more)

Using Microsoft.Web.Administration in Windows PowerShell

CarlosAg Blog — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:53:00 GMT

A couple of months ago I wrote about using LINQ with Microsoft.Web.Administration to manage and query IIS 7.0 configuration. Somebody came back to me and said that LINQ was very cool but that it was very much Developer oriented and that in a production server without VS or .NET 3.5 it wouldn't be an option. Indeed that is a very valid comment and so I decided to show similar stuff with a tool that is available in Windows and its more IT oriented, Windows PowerShell. So in this blog I will quickly mention some of the things you can easily do with Microsoft.Web.Administration inside Windows PowerShell. To start working with Microsoft.Web.Administration the first thing you need to do is load the assembly so that you can start using it. It is quite...(read more)

See you at TechEd Developers 2007 in Barcelona!

CarlosAg Blog — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:02:00 GMT

Today I'm flying to Barcelona to attend TechEd Developer 2007. I will be talking about IIS 7 Extensibility and showing some of the cool stuff we have been doing for the last couple of years, including Configuration Extensibility, building Managed Read More... Hope to see you there!...(read more)

Using LINQ with Microsoft.Web.Administration

CarlosAg Blog — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:32:00 GMT

With the upcoming release of .NET 3.5 and LINQ I thought it would be interesting to show some of the cool things you can do with IIS 7 and LINQ. Everything that I will do can be done with C# 2.0 code but it would take me several lines of code to write them but thanks to LINQ you can do them in about a line or two. Let's start with a very basic example that does not use LINQ but just M.W.A (Microsoft.Web.Administration) and then start adding interesting things to it. The following code just iterates the sites in IIS and displays their name. using System; using System.Linq; using Microsoft.Web.Administration; class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { using ( ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager ()) { var sites = serverManager...(read more)

Using the IIS 7.0 Managed Configuration API

CarlosAg Blog — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:31:00 GMT

More than a year ago I wrote about Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll and how it was a new API we were creating for managed code developers to be able to easily set any configuration settings of IIS, however I purposely ignored the configuration part of the API. Later I talked about the way configuration was organized in IIS 7.0 and how configuration files inherited and worked. Recently I was asked about some samples on how to modify IIS configuration and decided it was about time to talk about the configuration part of Microsoft.Web.Administration. The first thing to really emphasize is that Microsoft.Web.Administration in a way has two different ways of reading configuration: Run time: This is a read-only version of configuration that is meant...(read more)

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager for Windows XP, 2003 and Windows Vista SP1 RC0 is available for download

CarlosAg Blog — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:39:00 GMT

With the release of Windows Server 2008 RC0 , in IIS we are also releasing the ability to manage the Web Server, the new FTP Server and the new modules remotely using IIS Manager 7.0. In the past with previous Beta we shipped similar functionality under a different name, however for the first time this is the real way we will be supporting this remote administration from different Windows versions when Windows Server 2008 final version comes along. The reason this release in particular is exiting is because for the first time all the UI extensibility is enabled for these platforms making it possible to build your own UI modules , install them in the server and have the clients that connect to your server automatically download the new functionality...(read more)

Extending the IIS Manager Home page

CarlosAg Blog — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:00:00 GMT

IIS Manager provides a lot of extensibility points for developers, one of them is the new Home page or Control Panel. The new Home page allows end users to group their features based on different types of categories, including Area (IIS, ASP.NET and Management) and Category (Application Development, Security, Server Features, etc). When you are registering a new page for IIS Manager you get to choose where you want your page to be shown, including the option of adding your own category to it. All of this is done through the IControlPanel interface and the related ModulePageInfo , ControlPanelCategoryInfo and ControlPanelCategorization . The following illustration explains what each class represents. The following code shows how you can register...(read more)

Recent Tasks in IIS Manager 7

CarlosAg Blog — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:40:00 GMT

Talking to a good friend of mine ( Daniel ) about random geeky stuff, suddenly he showed me one of the features he considered very useful from the Windows Vista Control Panel. Basically they have a "Recent Tasks" at the bottom where they keep track of all the features you have used sorted by most recently used. He then suggested that we should do something similar inside IIS Manager 7 for those of us that have "task-amnesia" or are just to busy to search for it in the Control Panel. I immediately thought that was a great idea and that it was also a good sample material to show off the complete extensibility we have built into the new IIS Manager inside Windows Vista and the next release of Windows Server. So I decided to create the sample and...(read more)