Chapter 14

The Extensible Core Server

Introduction

There has never been so much excitement for a Microsoft Web server as there is for IIS 7.0. It is easy to understand why, when developers across all languages have the same freedoms. The parity stopped when a developer using ASP.NET attempted to garner full control of requests incoming to the Web server. This freedom wasn’t allowed unless a developer knew C++ and was familiar with the complex Internet Server Application Programming Interfaces (ISAPIs) that were shipped with IIS 1.0 and later ...

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