Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit
by Olga M. Londer Mike Volordarsky Brett Hill, Bernard Cheah, Steve Schofield, Carlos Aguiar Mares, Kurt Meyer, and Microsoft IIS Team
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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