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Using URL Rewrite with Web Site Testing
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. Read More...
Creating a Microsoft Access Provider for IIS Database Manager
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 Read More...
Database Manager API Topics on MSDN
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 Read More...
eWeek Reviews for IIS 7.5 and FTP 7.5
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 Read More...
FTP 7.5 Extensibility and Visual Studio Express Editions
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 " Read More...
Hiding your FTP Server Type and Preventing Unauthorized Access
As evidenced by my How to Use Managed Code (C#) to Create an FTP Authentication Provider with Dynamic IP Restrictions walkthrough and my other FTP authentication extensibility walkthroughs, I spend a lot of time trying to find ways to prevent unauthorized Read More...
The End of Metabase Corruption (R.I.P.)
Even though IIS 7 with its new XML-based configuration settings has been around for a while, I was going through some old directories on one of my computers the other day and I stumbled across an image that I had labeled "Metabase Corruption." I have Read More...
A Little Scripting Saved My Day (;-])
I have mentioned in previous blog posts that I tend to write many of my blog posts and walkthroughs for IIS.NET based on code that I’ve written for myself, and today’s blog post is the story of how one of my samples saved my rear over this past weekend. Read More...
Using Apple's WebDavFS for Mac OS X with WebDAV on IIS 7
Today's blog post needs to have a disclaimer right up front - I freely admit I'm not a Mac OS X expert, so I may not have everything 100% correct in this post. But I've seen a lot of questions on forums.iis.net that discuss using IIS WebDAV with Mac OS Read More...
FTP Clients - Part 6: Core FTP LE
For this installment in my series about FTP Clients, I'd like to take a look at the Core FTP client. For this blog post I used Core FTP Lite Edition (LE) version 1.3c (build 1447) and version 2.1 (build 1603), although all of my screen shots are from Read More...
BLOG - FTP 7.5 Service Extensibility References
As I pointed out in my recent blog post that was titled " FTP 7.5 and WebDAV 7.5 have been released ", one of the great new features of the FTP 7.5 service is extensibility. In that blog post I mentioned that I wrote the following walkthroughs to help Read More...
Creating a Read-Only Membership Provider for phpBB 2.0 Users
I recently posted a blog that was titled Creating a Read-Only Snitz Membership Provider , where I re-used the code from my How to use the Sample Read-Only XML Membership and Role Providers with IIS 7.0 walkthrough on the learn.iis.net web site to write Read More...
Advertising IIS Around the World
In case you haven't already surmised from some of my other blog posts, I've been around IIS for a long time, so it should go without saying that I'm a big fan of IIS. I remember when we first released IIS 1.0 for Windows NT 3.51 and we were handing out Read More...
Creating a Read-Only Snitz Membership Provider
For this blog post I'm going to take a brief departure from my FTP client series and share some code that I put together recently to help address a situation that presented itself a short time ago. Problem Description I keep a web site for my extended Read More...
New IIS 7.0 Configuration Reference
For the past several months I have been working with several members of the IIS team on a brand-new configuration reference for IIS 7.0 that describes every configuration setting for IIS in great detail, which is now located at the following URL: http://www.iis.net/configreference Read More...
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