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Mike Volodarsky iis Enhance Your Apps With The Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline lmost a year ago I wrote an overview of IIS 7.0 in MSDN® Magazine (see “IIS 7.0: Explore the Web Server for Windows Vista and Beyond” at msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/03/IIS7). That was several months before IIS 7.0 was released with Windows Vista®. Since then, users have had a chance to experience the new IIS 7.0 componentized and extensible architecture and other improvements firsthand. In the time since Windows Vista shipped, we’ve been hard at work making sure IIS 7.0 will be a reliable and secure Web server in Windows Server® 2008, honing its stability, performance, and support for hosting environments. We’ve also taken a hard look at what it means for IIS 7.0 to be a flexible Web application platform. Besides being an excellent platform for Microsoft application frameworks like ASP and ASP.NET, we wanted it to be a great platform for a wide variety of other application frameworks in use today. To facilitate this, we added support for FastCGI, an open Web server standard that allows application frameworks such as PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Perl to be hosted on IIS. We also collaborated with Zend Technologies, the creator of PHP, to bring a solid, high-performance PHP implementation to Windows® and IIS. IIS 7.0 goes beyond simply providing production support for popular application frameworks. With its new Microsoft® .NET Framework extensibility model, IIS 7.0 can leverage the power of ASP.NET integrated mode to add key functionality to applica52 msdnmagazine tions developed with any framework. This can enable you to add cool features such as access control or new URL schemes, or dramatically improve performance, often without touching a single line of code. In this article, I am going to dive deep into the IIS 7.0 ASP.NET integration features to enhance an application that was not devel- 7. 0 This article is based on a prerelease version of the IIS 7.0 FastCGI component. All information herein is subject to change. This article uses the following technologies: IIS 7.0, .NET Framework This article discusses: ASP.NET Integrated mode ✥ Adding user authentication ✥ Enabling search-engine-friendly URLs ✥ Upgrading performance with output caching ✥ Code download available at: msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/code08.aspx Mike Volodarsky is a Technical Program Manager on the Web Platform and Tools Team at Microsoft. Over the past four years, he has driven the design and development of the core feature-set for ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 7.0. He is now focusing on helping customers leverage the power of these technologies in Windows Server 2008. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/03/IIS7 http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/03/IIS7 http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/code08.aspx

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MSDN Magazine - January 2008 Contents Toolbox CLR Inside Out Data Points Advanced Basics Cutting Edge IIS 7.0 - Enhance Your Apps with the Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline World Ready - Around the World with ASP.NET AJAX Applications WCF Syndication - HTTP Programming with WCF and the .NET Framework 3.5 Wicked Code Foundations Extreme ASP.NET {End Bracket}

MSDN Magazine - January 2008

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