Managing Web Applications

A Web application is a container that provides a way to segregate part of your Web site’s uniform resource locator (URL) namespace from a run-time execution perspective, potentially isolating the execution of its contents from other applications and/or enabling run-time state to be shared between different URLs of the application (depending on the application framework technology), for example, assigning an application pool to a specific application, thereby isolating it from other applications via a process boundary. In addition, the application is the level at which ASP.NET application domains and ASP applications are created.

Each Web site in IIS 7.0 must contain a root application, thereby making contents below the ...

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