Apr 21 2006

IIS7 Features and APIs

Published by sethyates at 8:33 pm under Development

Scott Guthrie writes about some cool new IIS7 features and APIs:

  1. The ability to now have HttpModules and HttpHandlers participate in all requests to a server.
  2. Integration of the ASP.NET configuration system with IIS. IIS now uses the same web.config configuration model as ASP.NET, which means you can have both ASP.NET and IIS configuration settings in the same file together.
  3. An integrated Admin UI tool that manages both IIS and ASP.NET settings together.
  4. Much better request auditing and error debugging.
  5. Much better configuration APIs and command-line tools.

#5 especially is great. Finally, we can build some rich programs to administer IIS and web applications without having to resort to ADSI or WMI..yuck!).

#1 will also be interesting in relation to url rewriting. This would mean that you wouldn’t have to use wildcard mapping to send every request to ASP.NET.

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2 Responses to “IIS7 Features and APIs”

  1. # Mark Cohenon 21 Apr 2006 at 10:13 pm

    #1 will be a massive help to us, we host a fair number of sites on shared servers and not all are asp.net or even asp.

  2. # Sethon 21 Apr 2006 at 10:16 pm

    You’re right Mark. Plenty of people still use static html or ColdFusion (.cfm) sites, and could benefit from url rewriting and other capabilities that IIS7 will bring.

    Cheers,
    Seth

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