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  • FastCGI ISAPI 1.5 Beta for WinXP and Win2K3

    IIS team today released FastCGI ISAPI 1.5 Beta for WinXP and Win2K3 which has some very nice additions to existing FastCGI ISAPI functionality. Following additions have been made to FastCGI ISAPI 1.0.

    1. Few features we added to FastCGI module in IIS 7.5 have been added to FastCGI ISAPI 1.5 as well. These include MonitorChangesTo, StderrMode and Real-time tuning. Read more about these here.

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    Few customers complained about IIS terminating the FastCGI processes abruptly (on running into IdleTimeout, InstanceMax etc) without giving them a chance to run cleanup code in the FastCGI application.  Read more ...

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  • Using advanced logging to log custom module data

    Advanced logging module which media team released few days ago uses IIS tracing subsystem and allow module developers to log custom data in W3C compatible format using familiar IHttpTraceContext interface. If you are a module developer and want to generate W3C style logs for requests with custom data, doing it with advanced logging module is very easy. All you need to do is call IHttpTraceContext::RaiseTraceEvent passing data you want to publish. Your module installer can then configure advanced logging module to make it dump this data in a log file and you have complete logging solution without ever have to deal with log files yourself. Let’s see what it takes to make use of this functionality. Read more ...

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  • Implementing IAppHostPathMapper in C

    Few days ago I was required to implement IAppHostPathMapper interface in native C to map configuration path MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST to DefaultAppPool.config and struggled with finding good documentation. With help of some incomplete, hard to find documentation and some head banging here is what worked for me. Hopefully this will be useful for few others J. Read more ...

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