Jun 03, 2008
Today I presented a session at TechEd Developer in Orlando title “What’s New in IIS7 for Developers”. As part of the presentation, I built an HttpModule for logging requests to a database. This demo is based on one from CarlosAg and is described here...
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Jan 23, 2008
The IIS team today released the technical preview of a new web deployment tool that addresses many of the requests I've heard from developers for making the deployment of web applications easier on the Windows platform. The new tool allows for synchronization...
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Filed under: IIS7
Jan 11, 2008
If you are in the U.S. and interested in hearing more about what's new for developers in IIS7, the MSDN Presenters will be traveling the states and presenting in a theater near you. That's right a movie theater. The thing I always love about attending...
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Filed under: IIS News Item, IIS7
Nov 16, 2007
Elizabeth Smith wrote up a great explanation of FastCGI and the reasons it makes Windows a better host for PHP applications. In the opening, she writes: What is FastCGI? I could go on for pages about the technical background, and Microsoft already has...
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Filed under: PHP, FastCGI
Nov 12, 2007
Today at TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona , Bob Kelly announced the official release of the FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 . This means customers now have reliable, high-performance hosting for PHP and other CGI-based applications on production Windows servers...
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Filed under: PHP, FastCGI, IIS News Item
Nov 02, 2007
You may have heard about the new interoperability improvements for PHP and Microsoft technologies that Bill Staples blogged about . A few weeks ago, I spoke at PHP|Works in Atlanta and showed off a project I've been working on to demonstrate how PHP applications...
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Oct 24, 2007
Scott Hanselman produced an awesome screencast on configuring IIS7 and PHP with FastCGI . He also does some live performance testing of the Qdig application using CGI, FastCGI and the new kernel-mode caching in IIS7. From Scott's blog: You can watch the...
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Filed under: IIS, PHP, FastCGI, IIS News Item
Oct 19, 2007
While at the Heartland Developers Conference , Jeff Julian and John Alexander interviewed me about the new features in IIS 7.0 . In fact, they interviewed quiet a few people on a variety of topics while at the conference - lots of great content. You can...
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Oct 19, 2007
Today I spoke at the Heartland Developers Conference on why ASP.NET developers should care about Windows Server 2008. If you were at the session or just want to know more about what's in store for you as an ASP.NET developer, check out the following resources...
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Filed under: IIS
Aug 14, 2007
Hello, my name is Drew Robbins. I just started as the IIS Technical Evangelist focused on developers who build web applications that use and extend our platform. On this blog, I'll be covering topics like the following: Taking Advantage of IIS7 as an...
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Filed under: IIS