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• Developing IIS7 web server features with the .NET framework

  Thursday, August 16, 2007

  ASP.NET development IIS News Item IIS7 Integrated pipeline

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  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.

   

• IIS Authentication plugin for the Wordpress PHP blogging engine

  Monday, August 13, 2007

  FastCGI Goodies IIS News Item IIS7 PHP

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  This weekend, I was working on an MSDN magazine article and happened to install the Wordpress PHP blog app on IIS7.  Of course, I used the latest FastCGI bits available in the box in in Windows Server 2008 Beta 3, and the latest Windows-optimized PHP 5.2.3 build from www.php.net.  Long story short, I ended up writing a Wordpress plugin that allows Wordpress to use IIS authentication methods, including forms authentication.
  

  Read about installing Wordpress on IIS7, the Wordpress extensibility model, and get the IIS Authentication plugin here: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/08/12/IIS-Authentication-plugin-for-the-Wordpress-PHP-blogging-engine.aspx.

• IISSCHEMA.EXE - A tool to register IIS7 configuration sections

  Sunday, August 5, 2007

  Configuration Goodies IIS News Item IIS7 Tools

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  IIS7 configuration extensibility allows you to create custom configuration sections that can be used side by side the IIS configuration sections.  However, setting this up requires a few steps that may be difficult to accomplish, especially in a automated way from a script or an installer.
  
  This post describes the IIS7 configuration extensibility, the steps to create and register your custom configuration sections, and provides a downloadable tool you can use to simplify and automate this process.
  
  Read all about it and download IISSCHEMA.EXE here: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/08/04/IISSCHEMA.EXE-_2D00_-A-tool-to-register-IIS7-configuration-sections.aspx.