Plip's Weblog : IIS

TIP: System.WebServer configuration section

Plip — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:13:00 GMT

You can fill in the System.WebServer section now on your ASP.NET 2.0 applications and deploy it to IIS 6 servers, where the section is deployed...

So why is this cool?

Well, you can deploy the same site to IIS 6 and IIS 7, and IIS 7 will take advantage of all the cool features which are there. It means you can have mixed server wbe farms when Longhorn Server goes live for no effort whatsoever.

For more information about the System.WebServer schema check out the MSDN documentation.

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Where's the ASP.NET Tab in IIS? It's Missing! I've installed .NET 2.0 ...

Plip — Thu, 25 May 2006 14:48:00 GMT

I've been watching a thread on an e-mail list which gave me a little insight into a problem I wasn't even aware of.

Apparently on Windows Server 2003 64 Bit Editions and Windows Server 2003 R2 the ASP.NET Tab in IIS doesn't appear, no fix, that's it, it's gone!

"The ASP.NET tab does not appear on x64-based editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2. This tab also does not appear if only one version of ASP.NET is allowed in the web service extensions."

What?! :-)

Edit: It appears this post is all LIES !!!! Apparently the MS Documentation is wrong (shock horror).

Edit: Apparently there is some registry hacking which can resolve this too: -

If you find following register keys, would you please delete them and

re-register the framework ?

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FD5CD8B1-6FE0-44F3-BBFB-65E3655B096E}\InprocSe

rver32\2.0.XXXX.0]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7D23CCC6-A390-406F-AB67-2F8B7558F6F6}\InprocSe

rver32\2.0.XXXX.0]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FEDB2179-2335-48F0-AA28-5CDA35A2B36D}\InprocSe

rver32\2.0.XXXX.0]

The CLR team made changes to the version number which messes with the the setup scripts removal.

IIS 7 Managed Module Starterkit

Plip — Tue, 23 May 2006 22:42:00 GMT

The IIS team have put together IIS.net and about time - IIS has for too long been a dirty word, IIS 6 is the best web server platform I've ever used and IIS 7 is better!

Included on the site is the following Starter kit.

http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=3&subtabid=31&g=5&i=871

Which is described as follows: -

"This Visual Studio Content Installer contains a project template for building your first IIS7 Module using the .NET Framework. It contains a readme.htm file to help guide you step-by-step through the development and testing process."

What it actually turns out to be is a class file and a 100 line Readme document which explains how to paste the following line into said class file: -

context.Response.Cookies.Add(new HttpCookie( "time", DateTime.Now.ToString() ));

For a moment I got excited and thought I had real sample code ;-)