November 2006 - Posts

Before the flight: Native Output Cache, PHP and FastCGI, and other stuff

Before hopping on the plane and starting my Thanksgiving vacation, here are some highlights about the new IIS7 Native Output Cache, PHP, FastCGI, and other stuff ... Read More...

Posted 17 November 06 03:26 by Mike Volodarsky | 4 Comments   
Filed under PHP, Performance

Stopping hot-linking with IIS and ASP.NET

Many web sites suffer from others directly linking to their image, video and other content. This practice is called often called leeching, hot-linking, or inline-linking and causes wasted bandwidth and increased server load to the victim web site. Last weekend, I wrote a little ASP.NET module that prevents hot linking. It can be used on IIS5 (Windows 2000/XP), IIS6 (Windows Server 2003), and IIS7 (Windows Vista / Longhorn Server), and its also a perfect excuse to talk more about IIS and ASP.NET integration :) Read More...

Posted 10 November 06 01:50 by Mike Volodarsky | 75 Comments   
Filed under IIS7, Development, .NET, Goodies

Free no-hassle blogging with Quick Blog

In my first ever blog post, I mentioned that my dream was to eventually self-host my blog on home IIS7 server, running latest Windows “Longhorn” builds with many cool features based on modules I write while working on IIS7 at my job on the IIS team. In the past month that the blog has been up, I have thoroughly enjoyed GoDaddy’s free Quick Blog feature, which has allowed me to have a fully featured blog up and running minutes after I paid for the www.mvolo.com domain name. So, before I move at the end of this month, I wanted to share my experience with Quick Blog. Read More...

Posted 07 November 06 11:53 by Mike Volodarsky | 15 Comments   
Filed under Other, Apps

Try out the IIS FastCGI techical preview

As you know, we released the FastCGI technical preview this week, aimed at providing a fast and stable platform for running FastCGI applications like PHP. Its been very popular, with more downloads then we have expected for the first week. I wanted to say thank you to everyone trying this out ... Read More...

Posted 03 November 06 03:38 by Mike Volodarsky | 0 Comments   
Filed under PHP, IIS7, FastCGI

IIS7 modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI: Memory Management

For post #3 in the IIS7 Modules vs. IIS6 ISAPI series, let’s look at one of the biggest trouble areas that bite C developers - managing memory. Read More...

Posted 01 November 06 09:57 by Mike Volodarsky | 3 Comments   
Filed under IIS7, Development, ISAPI

For the past 5 years, I was the core server Program Manager for the IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 products at Microsoft.
Now, I work on advanced web server tech using IIS 7.0, .NET, and Windows Server 2008 and write about it in this blog.

Writings

TechNet Magazine
>Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

MSDN Magazine
>IIS 7.0: Build Web Server Solutions with End-To-End Extensibility
>IIS 7.0: Enhance Your Apps with the Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline
>IIS 7.0: Explore The Web Server For Windows Vista And Beyond
>Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
>Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications

LeechGuard
IconHandler 2.0
DirectoryListing
HttpRedirection
IIS Auth for Wordpress
iisschema.exe
PortCheck.exe v2.0

- ASP.NET 2.0 Breaking Changes on IIS 7.0
- Develop IIS7 modules and handlers with .NET
- Troubleshoot IIS7 errors like a pro
- Troubleshooting 503 / "service unavailable" errors
- Troubleshooting "server not found" errors
- Create IIS7 sites, applications, and virtual directories
- Run Ruby on Rails with IIS FastCGI
- VS Debugging of ASP.NET applications on Windows Vista
- Stop hot-linking with IIS and ASP.NET

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