January 2007 - Posts

Turbo-charge your PHP applications with IIS FastCGI Technical Preview 2

After 3 months of community feedback and development, the FastCGI Techical Preview 2 has just been released!

The FastCGI Technical Preview 2 release is an update for the first ever release of Microsoft IIS FastCGI feature in October 2006, providing a platform for high-performance and reliable way to run application frameworks like PHP on IIS. Read More...

Posted 31 January 07 11:55 by Mike Volodarsky | 29 Comments   
Filed under PHP, FastCGI

Get nice looking directory listings for your IIS website with DirectoryListingModule

Do you hate bland directory listing pages that most web servers have these days? Many of us do on the IIS team, and so over the past several years we've built a few directory listing modules to spice up IIS directory listings. I figured I should put an end to this by writing one that is oh so much better then all the other ones - and then give it to you to build some cool templates, and create complely customized directory listings for your website. Read More...

Posted 21 January 07 01:35 by Mike Volodarsky | 89 Comments   
Filed under IIS7, Development, ASP.NET, Goodies
Attachment(s): mvolo-directorylisting-web.zip

Display pretty file icons in your ASP.NET applications with IconHandler

Do you like file icons? I do. They make it pretty easy to visually digest file lists in Windows, when you open a file system folder with explorer.

Displaying icons in your web application can also be pretty compelling (for example, to spruce up that boring directory listing page, or visually represent documents in your web app). Wouldn't it be cool if you can write an ASP.NET control or page that can embed these icons on your custom directory listing view?

Unfortinately, there is no easy way to get icons for files in the .NET framework, so you have to do a little interop with the Windows shell to get the icon for a file / file extension, and then figure out a way to serve it over the web as an image. So, I wrote an ASP.NET image handler that serves the icon for an aritrary file or extension, that you can simply drop into your application to get these pretty icons for whatever purposes you need. Read More...

Posted 11 January 07 05:07 by Mike Volodarsky | 52 Comments   
Filed under IIS7, Development, ASP.NET, Goodies

You can actually download the hotlinking blocker module now

Apparently, my previous post of the LeechGuard holinking prevention module ended up with broken download and image links. No-one could download the module, and on my home network I could see it just fine.

So, I fixed the links, and you can browse the article and download the LeechGuard module for your IIS6 or IIS7 server now. Be sure to check it out! Read More...

Posted 05 January 07 11:43 by Mike Volodarsky | 4 Comments   
Filed under IIS7, Development, Tools, ASP.NET

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.

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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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