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The Customer Scenario I ran into an interesting situation recently - I host a website for a friend of mine, and he was shopping around for a new website template. He found one that he liked, but he didn't like the colors. In fact, he wanted the exact opposite of the colors in the website template, so he asked what I could do about it. I looked at the website template, and thankfully it was using linked Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files for all of the color definitions, so I told him that changing...( read more ) Read More...
One of the many projects that I've been working on for the past several months is an updated version of the IIS 7 configuration reference that describes every configuration setting for IIS in detail, which is located at the following URL: http://www.iis.net/configreference This latest version incorporates all of the updates to IIS for IIS 7.5, including previously out-of-band modules like FTP and WebDAV that are now built-in for IIS. As with the previous release of the configuration reference, each...( read more ) Read More...
Earlier today one of my coworkers, John Bocharov , asked me if I had ever done any WebDAV coding in .NET - specifically sending PUT and DELETE requests. I replied that I had, but it had been several months ago, and each time that I had written any WebDAV-related code samples it was for a specific purpose and not very exhaustive. Just the same, I promised John that if I found any of my old code samples I would send them to him. After a bit of searching through my archives I was able to find enough...( read more ) Read More...
Like many people I know, I get a lot of email from various industry-related publications; some of the emails are spam, and the others are from computer magazines that I subscribe to. (And there are several of those. ;-] ) Anyway, I received an email the other day from the folks at Dr. Dobb’s, and it contained a link for a video on IIS Bitrate Throttling. It always piques my interest to see what others have to say about IIS, so I followed the link and discovered that the following page has several...( read more ) Read More...
A few months ago I wrote a blog post that was titled " Merging FTP Extensibility Walkthroughs - Part 2 ", where I described how to merge my FTP Dynamic IP Restrictions Authentication Provider walkthrough with my FTP Provider that Sends an Email when Files are Uploaded walkthrough. The result of this code combination was a custom FTP authentication provider that provides support for dynamic IP restrictions that sends me an email every time a new IP address is blocked. I deployed this custom FTP authentication...( read more ) Read More...
Recently I ran into an interesting situation when I was rolling out a new web-based application. I had tested it on my development server, and because it was a rather complex application I wanted to test it on my production server before making it live. I had already set up a placeholder web site with a home page that announced the new site as "Coming Soon," and I had some of the supporting infrastructure configured for the placeholder site: database connections, permissions, FTP bindings, etc. In...( read more ) Read More...
Following up on my last blog post about the API set for the IIS Database Manager , I have something of a secret to let you in on - you can use the code samples in several of those API documents to create a fully functional provider for Microsoft Access databases. I would never use an Access database in a production environment, but having an Access provider has had some great benefits for me from a test perspective. I often use Access databases for test projects, and using the IIS Database Manager...( read more ) Read More...
Today Microsoft released version 1.0 of the IIS Database Manager , which enables you to manage local and remote SQL Server or MySQL databases through the IIS Manager. I cannot stress enough how this module has rapidly become one of my favorite extensions for IIS Manager. There are many times when I need to access the data in one of my databases where opening the database management tool would be inconvenient or impossible. (For example, when I am working remotely, or when I don't have the database...( read more ) Read More...
One of my coworkers, Vijay Sen, just forwarded the following eWeek review of IIS 7.5 to me: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/REVIEW-Microsoft-IIS-75-Improves-Management-Deployment-Options-822018/ The review was written by Jim Rapoza , and he said some great things about IIS 7.5, which ships with both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 client. But what really made my day was the following things that he said about FTP 7.5: Another welcome change in IIS 7.5 is the elevation of FTP as a full-fledged...( read more ) Read More...
In earlier blog posts I have mentioned that I written the several walkthroughs to help developers get started writing providers for the FTP 7.5 service, all of which available on Microsoft's learn.iis.net Web site under the " Developing for FTP 7.5 " section. In each of these walkthroughs I wrote the steps as if you were using Visual Studio 2008. Following up on that, I received a great question yesterday from a customer, Paul Dowdle, who wondered if it was possible to write an extensibility provider...( read more ) Read More...
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