The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks.

The career pages of Microsoft give hints what the future holds for us developers. This post picks out the interesting little details about future versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, SharePoint, SQL Server etc and analyzes a bit what they could mean.

This is a series of debugging demos aimed to help you get some hands on experience in debugging the most common types of Hang/performance, memory and crash scenarios in .net applications. The demos are written in ASP.NET which means that you do need IIS and .net framework 2.0 installed on the de...

Excellent MSDN Webcast on how to use Asynchronous Programming model in your ASP.NET 2.0 pages to avoid using up all your threads from threadpool for some lengthy operation (remote web service call, remote sql server query etc).. A must-watch!

IIS 7.0 includes a very cool feature that is not so well known called Hostable WebCore (HWC). This feature basically allows you to host the entire IIS functionality within your own process.

"Last week the IIS team shipped the first technical preview of some really cool administration modules that I think web developers will find super useful." Database Manager, Log Reports, Configuration Editor, Request Filtering UI, .NET Authorization, FastCGI UI

If you have a hosted site, sometimes you cannot change settings on the IIS server. This article shows you how to enable GZip compression directly within ASP, bypassing the server settings. I used this code on my site and it works great.

Deploying Silverlight content to a production web server is a pretty easy process. Despite occasional misconception, Silverlight doesn't require a Microsoft-based web server: Apache can host up Silverlight content just as happily as IIS. But there's one little gotcha: web servers are typically co...

The blog post below provides a quick overview of some of the options you can use to reduce the cost of delivering video, and discusses a new free download - the IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling Module - that was released a few days ago and which enables you to easily save money when serving video from an...

IISAdmin - Tool for creating multiple asp.net websites on IIS5 and winxp

If you recently set up a new Windows shared hosting account you noticed the addition of support for IIS7. What does this mean to you?

Article covers how to programatically modify the IIS 7.0 configuration in .NET using the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace.

Step by step tutorial (with screen shots) on creating self signed SSL certificates on IIS 6.0 and Win 2003 development / test servers using the FREE SelfSSL tool which comes with IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools. You can even use it to secure your local intranet.

This post shows you how to create an Application Pool in IIS7 from C#.