One of the useful benefits of IIS 7.0 and the ASP.NET Integrated mode is the ability to protect all content using ASP.NET Forms Authentication. In the past, people would often protect the application pages themselves, and leave images and media content Read More......( read more )

Not sure how many people are planning on attending the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) this year, but it is going to be a fantastic conference. We announced some huge announcements on the PDC web site.  http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ We have Read More......( read more )

Knowing when to restart IIS to pick up various types of changes to your application has traditionally been a challenge. IIS and ASP.NET are both stateful software systems, which heavily rely on cached state that is loaded once to provide high performance Read More......( read more )

I've written a couple times about what configuration changes cause AppDomain recycles. Most recently how the ASP.NET tab causes a server-wide AppDomain recycle , and previously about changes in ASP.NET 2.0 . Here I'm going to cover things that, when done Read More......( read more )

I've written a couple times about what configuration changes cause AppDomain recycles. Most recently how the ASP.NET tab causes a server-wide AppDomain recycle , and previously about changes in ASP.NET 2.0 . Here I'm going to cover things that, when done in IIS 7, will cause a full application pool recycle...

IIS 7.0 improves on the already solid performance of its predecessor in quite a few places. But the real power lies in the new capabilities IIS 7.0 provides that can significantly improve performance, scalability, and reduce operational costs of running Read More......( read more )

In one of the environments I work, cookies cannot be used because the pages run inside web browser controls running on a client application and cookies end up being shared by all browsers. Fortunately, ASP.NET allows us to persist some cookies as part of the URL. To persist the session state identifier...

Among IT circles, IIS 7.0’s modularity is definitely one of its most welcomed traits. It promises a significantly reduced surface area, lightweight management overhead, and better performance. Ever wonder how far you can go with modularizing IIS 7.0? Read More......( read more )

IIS 7.0 provides a number of APIs that you can use to manage configuration remotely. This post provides the info and tools you need to configure remote access to IIS 7.0 configuration, including for use on Server Core installations....( read more ) Read More......( read more )

On machines running IIS5 and IIS5.1, these are the Inetinfo.exe, DLLHost.exe and/or ASPNET_WP.exe processes. On machines running IIS 6 or 7, this is the w3wp.exe process. The following steps will allow us to get log files of the processes hosting the Read More......( read more )