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GenSCode updated to help use AhAdmin in C#, JavaScript
As promised in my previous post, I updated genscode tool to provide intellisense for AhAdmin code in C# and JavaScript. GenSCode now accepts an optional codetype switch which can be AhAJavaScript to help use AhAdmin in JavaScript, AhACSharp to help use AhAdmin in C# or MWACSharp (which is the default value) to ease using MWA in C#. Click here to download the updated tool. Read more ...
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Enabling intellisense for AhAdmin code in scripts
MWA (Microsoft.Web.Administration) is pretty popular among developers who wish to read/write IIS configuration because of ease of writing managed code (which enables its use in powershell as well) and also because it provides a more intuitive wrapper over the IIS configuration system which is easier to work with. MWA has concept of application pool collection, sites, bindings etc while IIS configuration system only understands sections, elements, properties, location paths etc and not application pools, virtual directories which makes life of developers writing AhAdmin code very difficult. If you disagree, try adding a binding using MWA and then using AhAdmin. Presence of tools like genscode makes using MWA even more easier. Read more ...
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Tool to generate AhAdmin code for actions in IIS7 UI
If you ever write AhAdmin code, this is for you.I have written a tool which generates equivalent JavaScript/C#/VB.Net AhAdmin code for actions done in IIS7 UI.
IIS7 configuration system gives access to IIS config files via a set of COM APIs. You can read/write to IIS configuration using these APIs in a script or C/C++ or using any of the managed language. All the tools which are shipped with IIS like managed APIs (Microsoft.Web.Administration), UI (IIS Manager), WMI provider uses these COM APIs internally to perform all the configuration operations. When you do an action in the UI, UI is making calls to these COM APIs (actually via MWA). Programming against COM APIs provided by IIS configuration system requires extensive understanding of these APIs and also IIS schema. Also you are required to know what exactly you want to change in the configuration. So when if you want to enable IIS detailed error messages programmatically, you are required to know which property should be changed to what value to have the desired effect. IIS Manager does present the properties in more readable form which makes it easier to decide what changes you want to make to the system which is helpful to the administrators but not developers. Imagine if you could just do an operation using IIS Manager and get the equivalent AhAdmin code which you can copy-paste in your application. This is exactly what AhAdminCodeGenerator is written to do. In the snapshot below, you are looking at JavaScript code generated when I created a site using IIS Manager.