Feb 18, 2008
IIS7 custom error module work in SendResponse stage with priority high (priority high in send response actually means lowest priority) which makes it one of the last modules to run in the pipeline. It produces custom errors only if current statusCode...
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Feb 11, 2008
One of the things which was not clear to me when IIS7 configuration system was written was how configuration system merges all the configuration data available and then decide what values are effective for the current request. One of confusions came from...
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Dec 30, 2007
Few months ago, I fired procmon and collected all the registry keys IIS7 processes read. I then gathered the information about these registry keys from different people in the team and also collected available information on the internet. I have been...
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Dec 20, 2007
I started writing an application which uses hostable web core (HWC) functionality of IIS7 and before making it available for download I thought it will be useful to write about HWC in detail. Hostable web core enables processes other than w3wp.exe to...
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Jul 26, 2007
IIS7 configuration system understands machine.config, web.config and applicationHost.config but does not handle administration.config natively. This means reading and writing administration.config is little difficult. If you use AhAdmin directly and call...
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Dec 04, 2006
Attachment: GenSCodeInstall.zip
I wrote a simple tool to generate strongly typed classes for IIS configuration sections which can then be used with MWA to enable intellisense. This tool should be able to generate very logical intuitive type names in most cases. Generated code is similar...
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Nov 16, 2006
IIS caches everything it can to save CPU cycles wherever possible. IIS6 had user-mode file cache, token cache, URI cache, metadata cache and kernel-mode http.sys response cache. These caches are mostly unchanged in IIS 7.0 other than following changes...
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Nov 13, 2006
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I was at TechEd developers last week and one question that came up was what it takes for custom modules to show up in "Features Delegation" UI. I had image copyright walkthrough setup on the machine and in spite of having the custom schema xml and <section>...
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