September 2009 - Posts

A Tale of Two Developers and Visual Studio Sites and Apps by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

We've encountered several scenarios in which customers have multiple developers working on a single web application in Visual Studio. In such cases, it's not uncommon for each developer to be working on a portion of the application. There isn't...
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WebDeploy Auto-Completion UI by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

As the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool gained popularity, it has undergone a lot of churn which resulted in the continual addition of new features and a humongous set of command-line options. This tool has been built to alleviate a lot of pain in the usage...

Web Deployment Tool has gone RTW by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

After 2 years of development and lots of customer feedback, Microsoft is proud to announce that the Web Deployment Tool has gone  RTW version 1.0! You can now download the RTW version and use it in production, and it is fully supported by Microsoft...
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Tip#96: Did you know…You could publish your SQL databases using the SQL Publishing Wizard? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can use the SQL Publishing wizard in VS 2008/VWD 2008 to deploy a local database from your development machine to a hosting environment on a remote machine. This is how you will accomplish this: Step 1: Create a new web site by selecting menu File...
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MSDeploy , XPath and XSL: Part III: Auto generate setParamFile from package and batch file to migrate apps to sites by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

MSdeploy along with XSL is the way to go if you want to simplify many of the routine tasks that one needs to do. Two of the common scenarios are listed below. Before we start, you can download msxsl for free from here and the web deployment tool (msdeploy...
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Query password protected sites using IIS SEO Toolkit beta 2 available by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Carlos from the IIS team announced the IIS SEO toolkit supports querying sites with Basic or Windows Authentication. I was looking for support against Sharepoint and protected sites. This tool hasn't gotten enough press and is a original piece of...
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Creating a Microsoft Access Provider for IIS Database Manager by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Following up on my last blog post about the API set for the IIS Database Manager , I have something of a secret to let you in on - you can use the code samples in several of those API documents to create a fully functional provider for Microsoft Access...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 181 - Monomania - Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

My one-hundred-and-eighty-first podcast is up . Scott chats with Mono Product Manager Joseph Hill and Monospace conference organizer and continuous learner Scott Bellware about the state of Mono. Is Mono competition or diversity? How hard are cross platform...
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IIS Database Manager – Version 1.0 Released! by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today, the IIS team is releasing version 1.0 of the IIS Database Manager. It allows you to administer website and web application databases with the existing connection string or a custom client connection with an IIS UI extension. Major Features: Viewing...
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Microsoft WebsiteSpark by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Own a Web development or design business with ten or fewer employees needing low cost options for software, support, training, and connections to a variety of business opportunities? If so, you should check out Microsoft WebsiteSpark ; Microsoft’s program...

MSDeploy , XPath and XSL: Part II: Generating formatted output by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Using xsl and msxsl with msdeploy you can generate formatted html logs. It gets even better when you use the API; you can generate better organized logs with custom messages to suit your needs. Before we start, you can download msxsl for free from here...

MSDeploy , XPath and XSL: Part 1: Getting information by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Now that MSDeploy RTW has been officially released, I want to discuss just some of the few great features it has. Getting Information: The tool can be used in great many ways to get remote or local system information using xpath with the different providers...

IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit – Announcing Beta 2 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Yesterday we released the Beta 2 version of the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit . This version builds upon Beta 1 adding a set of new features and several bug fixes reported through the SEO forum : Report Comparison . Now you have the ability...
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Migraing FastCGI configuration from IIS 5.1/6.0 to IIS 7.0/7.5 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Problem As you know FastCGI functionality on IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 is provided by FastCGI ISAPI extension which is available as an independent download. On IIS 7.0 and beyond, FastCGI functionality is provided by IIS FastCGI module which comes with the...

New IIS Web Extensions for Web Site Developers and Web Server Administrators by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I am very proud to announce our September 2009 release of IIS Web extensions! This September launch includes the RTW release of Web Deploy 1.0 , Web Platform Installer 2.0 , and IIS Database Manager 1.0 , as well as the pre-release versions of Application...
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