Carlos Aguilar's Blog
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Mapping a different file extension for ASPX Pages in IIS 7.0
Today I read a question in one of the IIS.NET forums - although I'm not sure if this is what they really wanted to know - I figured it might be useful to understand how to do this anyway. Several times users does not like exposing their ASP.NET pages using the default .aspx file extension (sometimes because of legacy reasons, where they try to minimize the risk of generating broken links when moving from a different technology, to preserve the validity of previous search-engines-indexes and sometimes for the false sense of security or whatever).
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DiscountASP.net releases new IIS 7.0 Manager modules
DiscountASP.net who has been a very close partner of the IIS Team leading several offerings of our platform - including IIS Manager Remote Delegated Access to the Web Site and many other cool tools - has just built and released yet another cool module that extends the IIS Manager capabilities by having a GAC Viewer for their customers.
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IIS 7.0 Site ID Computation
In my previous post I mentioned that IIS Manager (more specifically Microsoft.Web.Administration) has two algorithms for assigning a Site ID when no ID is specified.
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Faster IIS Web Sites Provisioning using Microsoft Web Administration
Yesterday I got an email about some performance numbers that one of our customers were running into when creating remotely Web Sites, Applications, Application Pools and other tasks in IIS using Microsoft.Web.Administration. In case you don't know Microsoft.Web.Administration is a .NET library that exposes the IIS Configuration System.
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Extending the IIS Configuration System using COM
Today I was going to post about extending the IIS Configuration, in particular about a feature that not everybody knows that allows you to extend the IIS Configuration System using dynamic code. What this means is that instead of hard-coding the configuration using XML in a .config file, your configuration can be provided by a COM object that implements IAppHostPropertyExtension, IAppHostElementExtension and IAppHostMethodExtension.
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IIS Admin Pack: Database Manager
OK, this blog entry sat in my drafts for more than a month now, but finally today I will be talking about another cool feature of the IIS Admin Pack, Database Manager.
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URL Rewrite Technical Preview 1 available
Today we are releasing a very cool feature that lots of customers have really been asking for, URL Rewrite Module is now available for download at:
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New Articles for Building IIS Manager Extensions Published in IIS.NET
Gurpreet Singh who is a developer in my team published last week a couple of articles on how to extend IIS Manager 7:
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IIS Admin Pack Technical Preview 2 Released
Today we are releasing the Technical Preview 2 of the IIS Admin Pack, it is an update of the release we made on February.
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IIS 7.0 Talk at ASP.NET Connections at Orlando
Last Monday I gave a presentation at the ASP.NET Connections event in Orlando, the title was IIS 7.0 for ASP.NET Developers. I just wish I had more time to stay at Orlando, weather was great, especially considering that Sunday I was watching Snow in Redmond and then Monday and Tuesday I was around 80 degrees in sunny Orlando.