IIS.net DownloadCENTER Released

keiths — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:58:05 GMT

The DownloadCENTER at IIS.net is an inclusive community destination for discovering new components, modules and 3rd-party solutions related to the Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server.

With the worldwide release of Windows Vista tomorrow, this new section of IIS.net is particularly relevant to ASP.NET developers interested in the future of the Microsoft Web stack.

For example:

The latest release of IIS, IIS7, is included with Windows Vista and has a completely modular architecture which features over forty pluggable components that can be easily added, removed or even swapped with custom implementations.
The integrated pipeline gives ASP.NET developers a familiar event model and unified programming framework for enhancing the server.
The powerful extensibility support is available to both .NET (managed) and C/C++ (native).
The new management & configuration system and tools make it easier to setup your sites so you can spend less time troubleshooting and more time implementing.

There are already numerous downloads for all versions of IIS available today. Many are provided by Microsoft but, even more exciting are those contributed by the IIS community. In the future, the DownloadCENTER will host a large number of extensions specific to IIS7 submitted by Microsoft, ISVs and the broader IIS community.

To learn more about the DownloadCENTER, go check out Bill Staples’ blog post about it or, better yet, go visit today.

Microsoft and Zend Announce Collaboration to Enhance PHP on IIS

keiths — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:38:43 GMT

As part of today's keynote presentation at ZendCon, Bill Staples, Microsoft's Product Unit Manager for Internet Information Services (IIS), announced a new collaboration with Zend to improve performance and stability of PHP on Windows.

This isn't just vaporware, either. During Andi Gutmans' keynote (Andi is one of the creators of PHP and co-founder of Zend), Bill announced the availability of a technical preview release of FastCGI for IIS and demoed it for the audience as well.

FastCGI is a new component for Microsoft's Web server platform that is available for download & evaluation today. It works IIS 6.0 in Windows 2003 Server and IIS 5.1 in Windows XP. Even cooler, it also works with the brand new IIS 7.0 making its debut with Windows Vista and, later, as part of Windows Server code-named "Longhorn."

This announcement continues to solidfy IIS as the premiere Web application server whether you are developing sites with ASP.NET or any other server framework. Moreover, regardless of the programming language or framework they choose, developers building sites of any size can leverage the full capabilities of the Microsoft platform with enterprise-class security, speed and stability.

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IIS.net DownloadCENTER Released

Microsoft and Zend Announce Collaboration to Enhance PHP on IIS