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If you are developing code that uses distributed synchronization or messaging, you sometimes might need to use files as a locking mechanism.  This can be useful because files are persistent (beyond thread, process, or even power session lifetime), and access to them is synchronized between multiple processes if you select the proper file ...

One of the useful benefits of IIS 7.0 and the ASP.NET Integrated mode is the ability to protect all content using ASP.NET Forms Authentication.  In the past, people would often protect the application pages themselves, and leave images and media content open for public access.  It wasn’t easy to extend the same internet-based ...

Knowing when to restart IIS to pick up various types of changes to your application has traditionally been a challenge. IIS and ASP.NET are both stateful software systems, which heavily rely on cached state that is loaded once to provide high performance.  They also recognize the downside of being stateful - having to refresh the state when ...

As you know, IIS 7.0 provides a number of ways to manage configuration other then MWA, including IIS Configuration COM objects for script, IIS Configuration COM objects from .NET or native clients, WMI, the IIS Manager tool (inetmgr.exe), and AppCmd. While all of these can be used to manage an IIS 7.0 box remotely (AppCmd with extra help of a ...

Since its release, IconHandler has been a pretty popular module (on its own and with the custom DirectoryListingModule).  Today, I am releasing v2.0 of IconHandler, which contains some much-requested functionality and fixes a few issues that people have reported with the original version.(I don’t RTFM, take me to download)Here are the ...

I've blogged quite a bit about using Visual Studio to develop and debug IIS 7.0 applications in the past. A few weeks back, I put together a detailed article about using Visual Studio 2008 to work with IIS 7.0 applications, collecting all the various how-to and gotchas in one place. Now, you can find the same information for Visual Studio ...

In the past, I've blogged a number of times about using Visual Studio to develop and debug IIS 7.0 applications. I am happy to say that Visual Studio 2008 has added a number of improvements to work better with IIS 7.0, making it a lot easier to use it to develop, deploy, and debug those applications both locally and on remote IIS 7.0 ...

This month, the Enhance Your Apps With the Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline article is finally out in MSDN Magazine.  I just got several copies in the mail (thanks Howard!).****** UPDATE: Scott Hanselman presents the demos from this article at CodeMash 2008 ******To be honest, I am VERY excited about this article.  I’ve been talking and ...

ASP.NET 2.0 applications on IIS 7.0 are hosted using the ASP.NET Integrated mode by default.  This new mode enables a myriad of exciting scenarios including using super-valuable ASP.NET features like Forms Authentication for your entire Web site, and developing new ASP.NET modules to do things like URL rewriting, authorization, logging, and ...

During IIS7 development, I've written quite a few modules for IIS7 / ASP.NET.  Some of these were for various demos, others were to help out various internal and external customers, and others just because they were fun to write.  Developing for IIS7 has been lots of fun for me because you can finally do a lot of the things you ...