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IIS 7.0 Site ID Computation
In my previous post I mentioned that IIS Manager (more specifically Microsoft.Web.Administration) has two algorithms for assigning a Site ID when no ID is specified.
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Faster IIS Web Sites Provisioning using Microsoft Web Administration
Yesterday I got an email about some performance numbers that one of our customers were running into when creating remotely Web Sites, Applications, Application Pools and other tasks in IIS using Microsoft.Web.Administration. In case you don't know Microsoft.Web.Administration is a .NET library that exposes the IIS Configuration System.
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Extending the IIS Configuration System using COM
Today I was going to post about extending the IIS Configuration, in particular about a feature that not everybody knows that allows you to extend the IIS Configuration System using dynamic code. What this means is that instead of hard-coding the configuration using XML in a .config file, your configuration can be provided by a COM object that implements IAppHostPropertyExtension, IAppHostElementExtension and IAppHostMethodExtension.
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IIS Admin Pack: Database Manager
OK, this blog entry sat in my drafts for more than a month now, but finally today I will be talking about another cool feature of the IIS Admin Pack, Database Manager.