Contents tagged with Extensibility
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Why IIS7? Top 12 cool features…
Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has. I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos. And with each new IIS7 Extension, the list of new features just gets bigger and bigger. A few months ago I realized we didn’t have the top list of features written up anywhere, and so we started the process of distilling down the list to the top 10. We almost made it! We ended up with the top 12 reasons you should get IIS7 today. Check them out here:
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Find New IIS7 Extensions at http://www.iis.net/extensions/
I’m happy to announce that IIS7 Extensions have found their home at http://www.iis.net/extensions
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Free IIS7 Online Training
A few months ago the IIS team did a quick tour of Europe, speaking in various cities and countries in an all-day IIS conference specifically geared toward training people on IIS7. Luckily, the good people of Poland decided to record and publish the training for everyone to use. Check out the sessions below to watch Brett Hill and Isaac Roybal present IIS7. Here is a list of all the sessions: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/result_search.aspx?event=69&x=13&y=2
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My Take: IIS vs. Apache
I ran across Apache at 56% - what is wrong? by /home/liquidat this weekend, and the resulting Digg thread, and enjoyed reading the age-old IIS vs. Apache debate waged by loyalists on both sides. It is great to see the passion for Web servers still very much alive. This is one of the reasons I love software...it is so much more than bits and bytes. Software, good and bad, evokes an emotional response from users. It frustrates the crap out of me when it doesn't work like I want it to, and it makes me nod my head and say "cool..." when it does something really powerful that I don't expect.
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MIX '07: IIS7 for Developers Demos and Powerpoint
I got a lot of requests for the presentation and demo notes from my session at MIX, so here goes. If you're interested in the slides, You can download the PPT here.
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Building an IIS7 SQL Logging Module with .NET
All the credit for the SQL logging module demo goes to CarlosAg. He built it for an internal Microsoft conference, and I stole it for my MIX talk. It is a great demo because it shows off something you can only do with IIS7 and the integrated pipeline. I love it!
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IIS7 at Microsoft Technology Summit
Carlos and I spoke at the Microsoft Technology Summit yesterday, a conference dedicated to influential influencers who are experts in alternative platforms. It was a really fun talk as we were able to show off how IIS7 provides a very extensive public extensibility model for adding, removing and replacing any IIS7 feature, on top of which the IIS team built the IIS product itself.
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IIS7 Logging UI for Vista - Download Now
It's no secret that there is no way to configure logging settings in IIS7/Vista. A PM convinced me that configuring "logging" settings on a "Developer" machine simply isn't interesting - and "if they want to do it, they can always use config".
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Image Gallery - DirListModule Available for Download
By popular demand, in conjunction with the DownloadCENTER release, I decided to release the famous DirListModule I originally created for IIS7 demos, several years ago. In fact, I think it was the first real managed module that anyone on the team had built, and it has been used in hundreds of demos ever since, including BobMu's keynote at PDC in 2005.
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Real-time XHTML Validator for IIS7
TheJoyOfCode.com guys have posted a great blog entry which demonstrates the power of IIS7's integrated pipeline, and provides a useful new feature for Web developers on IIS7. Last February, they wrote an ASP.NET module that could dynamically validate markup generated by your ASPX pages for valid XHTML. It is a a really useful cool, and makes it really simple to test your pages for browser compatibility and compliance. The only downside: since it is an ASP.NET module, on all versions of IIS prior to IIS7, it would only work for ASP.NET content.
IIS7 changes that, by allowing modules and handlers to be written using managed code for all types of content. Using the same IHttpModule and IHttpHandler APIs, developers can now write managed code extensions to the Web server which can intercept and serve all types of requests. And best of all, we built the extensibility model to be as compatible as possible with existing ASP.NET extensions. With a few simple configuration changes, your ASP.NET modules and handlers can now work with all types of content.The JoyOfCode.com guys show off how in their blog post XHTML Validator for All. Using the new IIS7 Admin tool, they wire up their module for a static HTML application. Without a single code change, their XHTML Validator works perfectly with static HTML pages, classic ASP, or even PHP! Check it out!