MVolo's Blog : development

IIS 7.0 Forms Authentication and Embedded Media Players

IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:04:00 GMT

One of the useful benefits of IIS 7.0 and the ASP.NET Integrated mode is the ability to protect all content using ASP.NET Forms Authentication. In the past, people would often protect the application pages themselves, and leave images and media content...(read more)

When to restart IIS when making changes to your application

IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:02:00 GMT

Knowing when to restart IIS to pick up various types of changes to your application has traditionally been a challenge. IIS and ASP.NET are both stateful software systems, which heavily rely on cached state that is loaded once to provide high performance...(read more)

Connecting to IIS 7.0 configuration remotely with Microsoft.Web.Administration

IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:20:00 GMT

IIS 7.0 provides a number of APIs that you can use to manage configuration remotely. This post provides the info and tools you need to configure remote access to IIS 7.0 configuration, including for use on Server Core installations....( read more ) Read...(read more)

Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0

mvolo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:16:00 GMT

A few weeks back, I put together a detailed article about using Visual Studio 2008 to work with IIS 7.0 applications, collecting all the various how-to and gotchas I've blogged about in the past in one place.

Now, you can find the same information for Visual Studio 2005, in a new article titled Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0.

See the blog post here: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/04/04/Using-Visual-Studio-2005-with-IIS-7.0.aspx, and check out the article at Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0.

Thanks,

Mike

Using Visual Studio 2008 with IIS 7.0

mvolo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:44:00 GMT

In the past, I've blogged a number of times about using Visual Studio to develop and debug IIS 7.0 applications.

I am happy to say that Visual Studio 2008 has added a number of improvements to work better with IIS 7.0, making it a lot easier to use it to develop, deploy, and debug those applications both locally and on remote IIS 7.0 servers.

To help you get started with using Visual Studio 2008 to work with IIS 7.0 applications, I put together a new iis.net article precisely on the subject. Learn more about it at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/03/12/Using-Visual-Studio-2008-with-IIS-7.0.aspx.

Thanks,

Mike

MSDN Magazine: Extend IIS 7.0 end-to-end

mvolo — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:06:00 GMT

In this month's launch edition of MSDN magazine, we celebrate the release of Windows Server 2008. It's been a long road and we are finally done!

Of course, this celebration wouldnt be complete without a juicy article on IIS 7.0 - this time, showing off the complete extensibility of the Web server by building a full-blown Web server feature with configuration and IIS Manager components. The article shows off my latest project, the Response Modification Framework, which is pretty cool on its own ...

Read the article, learn about RMF, and more at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/02/18/MSDN-Magazine_3A00_-Extend-IIS-7.0-End_2D00_to_2D00_End.aspx.

Thanks,

Mike

Two-Level Authentication with Forms Authentication and Windows Authentication

mvolo — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:47:00 GMT

The integration of IIS and ASP.NET authentication stages in Integrated mode applications brings a lot of benefits, including being able to use ASP.NET authentication features like Forms Authentication for the entire web site. However, it also prevents two-level authentication schemes that relied on the two separate authentication stages between IIS and ASP.NET from working.

I mentioned this in the list of ASP.NET breaking changes in December. Since then, I've gotten many requests for re-enabling these scenarios in Integrated mode, so I put together a workaround for doing this in Integrated mode.

To learn more and download the bits / source code of the workaround, see http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/02/11/IIS-7.0-Two_2D00_Level-Authentication-with-Forms-Authentication-and-Windows-Authentication.aspx.

Thanks,

Mike

Mike's IIS7 modules - what's coming next

mvolo — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:08:00 GMT

During IIS7 development, I've written quite a few modules for IIS7 / ASP.NET. Some of these were for various demos, others were to help out various internal and external customers, and others just because they were fun to write.

Now, I am thinking about upgrading some of these with the feature requests and bugfixes you have been asking for, and getting some new ones up as well. Come check out what you can get right now, and weigh in on what I should next at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/10/28/Mike_2700_s-IIS7-modules-_2D00_-what_2700_s-coming-next.aspx.

Developing IIS7 web server features with the .NET framework

mvolo — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:38:00 GMT

This article, the first in the IIS7 .NET Developer series, focuses on getting started with developing IIS7 web server features based on the .NET Framework. Learn about the options you have for your development environment, how to set up your Visual Studio project, when to build a module vs. a handler, and more. By the end of the article, you would have built and deployed a simple IIS7 managed handler and module.

Read the entire article at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/08/15/Developing-IIS7-web-server-features-with-the-.NET-framework.aspx.

Redirect clients in your application with HttpRedirection module

mvolo — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:28:00 GMT

In a web application, it’s often necessary to redirect clients requesting one url to another url. A while ago, I wrote a module to do basic http redirection for an ASP.NET application. The HttpRedirection module allows you to configure regular expression-based rules that redirect clients from url A to url B, with a number of other features.

Learn more about rewriting and redirection, and download the HttpRedirection module / source code here: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/05/24/Redirect-clients-in-your-application-with-HttpRedirection-module.aspx.

Get nice looking directory listings for your IIS website with DirectoryListingModule

mvolo — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:19:00 GMT

Do you hate bland directory listing pages that most web servers have these days?

Many of us do on the IIS team, and so over the past several years we've built a few directory listing modules to spice up IIS directory listings.

I figured I should put an end to this by writing one that is oh so much better then all the other ones - and then give it to you to build some cool templates, and create complely customized directory listings for your website.

Read more on http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/01/21/Get-nice-looking-directory-listings-for-your-IIS-website-with-DirectoryListingModule.aspx.

Display pretty file icons in your ASP.NET applications with IconHandler

mvolo — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:15:00 GMT

Do you like file icons? I do. They make it pretty easy to visually digest file lists in Windows, when you open a file system folder with explorer.

Displaying icons in your web application can also be pretty compelling (for example, to spruce up that boring directory listing page, or visually represent documents in your web app). Wouldn't it be cool if you can write an ASP.NET control or page that can embed these icons on your custom directory listing view?

Unfortinately, there is no easy way to get icons for files in the .NET framework, so you have to do a little interop with the Windows shell to get the icon for a file / file extension, and then figure out a way to serve it over the web as an image. So, I wrote an ASP.NET image handler that serves the icon for an aritrary file or extension, that you can simply drop into your application to get these pretty icons for whatever purposes you need.

Read more on http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/01/11/Display-pretty-file-icons-in-your-ASP.NET-applications-with-IconHandler.aspx.

Fix problems with Visual Studio F5 debugging of ASP.NET applications on IIS7 Vista

mvolo — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:39:00 GMT

A number of people have been reporting problems when trying to debug their ASP.NET applications on Windows Vista with Visual Studio 2005 F5 debugging support. There are a handful of posts about trying to get this to work in various ways ... most of which are missing key information needed to *really* get it to work.

Hopefully this will be the *definitive* guide to enabling F5 debugging on Vista / IIS7.

Read the details at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2006/12/28/Fix-problems-with-Visual-Studio-F5-debugging-of-ASP.NET-applications-on-IIS7-Vista.aspx.

IIS7 modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI: Managing request state in your module

mvolo — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:52:00 GMT

For post #4 in the IIS7 Modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI series, let's take a look at another common pattern in IIS module development - storing request-specific state inside your module.

Read more at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2006/12/25/Managing-request-state-in-your-IIS7-module.aspx.

Stopping hot-linking leeches with IIS and ASP.NET

mvolo — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:33:00 GMT

Many web sites suffer from others directly linking to their image, video and other content. This practice is called often called leeching, hot-linking, or inline-linking and causes wasted bandwidth and increased server load to the victim web site.

Last weekend, I wrote a little ASP.NET module that prevents hot linking. It can be used on IIS5 (Windows 2000/XP), IIS6 (Windows Server 2003), and IIS7 (Windows Vista / Longhorn Server).

It also was a great excuse to talk about IIS and ASP.NET integration history :)

Read more on http://mvolo.com/2006/11/10/stopping-hotlinking-with-iis-and-aspnet.aspx.