Integrated Pipeline and Hostable Web Core: Two good things to know if you develop on top of IIS...

IIS7 is a big release for developers. For example, we've changed our extensibility model in this version to make it easier for customers and vendors to build web applications and extend the Web server. I think two of the most interesting innovations in this release are the integrated pipeline and hostable Web core. Mike Volodorsky wrote a great article on one of the reasons why the integrated pipeline is so cool in this month's MSDN magazine. Check it out if you can at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/08/01/PHPandIIS7/default.aspx. Hostable Web core (HWC) is a feature that we haven't talked enough about but will start adding more information to iis.net (stay tuned). HWC opens up a lot of interesting scenarios if you are looking to build solutions or tools that hosts IIS, like a control panel. Kanwal did an excellent job of introducing Hostable Web core to developers in this blog: http://blogs.iis.net/ksingla/archive/2007/12/20/ins-amp-outs-of-hostable-web-core.aspx.