Professional IIS 7 and ASP.NET Integrated Programming

Chapter 6. Understanding the Integrated Graphical Management System

Chapter 3 provided in-depth coverage of the new IIS7 Manager and its rich capabilities, such as:

• You can use the IIS7 Manager to configure both the IIS7 Web server and ASP.NET Web applications. This is a departure from the previous versions of IIS, where you needed to use two separate management tools because the Web server and ASP.NET were using two completely different configuration systems.

• The IIS7 Manager contains the logic that takes the hierarchical nature of the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated configuration system into account. Configuration changes made at a particular level of the configuration hierarchy are automatically saved into either the configuration file in that hierarchy level or a <location> element in a configuration file in a higher hierarchy level. For example, configuration changes made at site level are stored in the root web.config file of the site, which means that these changes will only affect the Web applications in that site.

Chapter 3 discussed these two and many other capabilities of the IIS7 Manager in detail. This and the next chapter discuss a very important aspect of the IIS7 Manager that wasn't covered in the previous chapters, that is, its extensible architecture. The extensibility of the IIS Manager is of paramount importance to ASP.NET developers and IIS7 administrators alike. If the IIS7 Manager is to be the management tool of choice for ASP.NET developers, it must allow developers ...