10 reasons why server development is better with IIS7

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UPDATE: Here are the currently published entries in this series that highlight the improvements in the new IIS server programming model:

Reason #10 - C++ class-based programming model
Reason #9 - Intuitive server object model
Reason #8 - Improved memory management
Reason #7 - Managing request state
Reason #6 - Sending http responses (coming up)
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As you already know (if you don’t, go read about it right now - http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=7&subtabid=71), IIS7 core server has been completely re-engineered to provide a brand new extensibility model on top of which all of the server features are built. This allows anyone to remove/replace all existing server features, or add new ones - by using either the new native APIs, or the managed ASP.NET APIs.

Over the past two years, we did a bunch of work to make sure the new native APIs are easy to use and help write more robust server code. But, it is hard to appreciate all the benefits until you actually compare writing an IIS7 module with writing an IIS6 ISAPI Extension – I am often amazed at how much easier your life gets when developing IIS modules with the new APIs.

So, this post begins the series of posts explaining exactly why the new API is so much better, and why writing an IIS7 module in native code should not be nearly as scary as it was in the past.

If you want to learn more about ISAPI Extensions while reading these post, check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iissdk/html/df0c6290-edd3-498b-ae0e-d7195906305b.asp.

Likewise, to read about building IIS7 native modules, check out http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=2&subtabid=25&i=938.

Next - reason #10.

Published 07 October 06 09:49 by Mike Volodarsky

Filed under: IIS7, Development, ISAPI

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# IIS 7.0 ve Yenilikler « Kaan Tezgel - Catch the future… said on April 29, 2007 11:57 AM:: PingBack from http://kaantezgel.wordpress.com/2007/04/29/iis-70-ve-yenilikler/
# IIS 7.0 ve Yenilikler « Kaan Tezgel - Catch the future… said on April 29, 2007 11:57 AM:: PingBack from http://kaantezgel.wordpress.com/2007/04/29/iis-70-ve-yenilikler/
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About Mike Volodarsky

For the past 5 years, I was the core Program Manager for Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 7.0 products. I drove the design and development of the IIS 7.0 web server core, the IIS FastCGI support, the AppCmd command line tool, the ASP.NET Integrated pipeline, and other special projects around server security, performance, and scalability. Now, I am working on my own on cutting edge web server tech on top of the Microsoft IIS platform, and continue blogging about it here.