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Today, a new section was opened on the IIS.net website - the Dowload Center.

http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=3

As with many pouplar sites, the Download pages are a hot item where people browse for stuff they can use now. There has never been anything like for the Microsoft where both developers, partners, site users, and IIS Team members can post their bits for the world to see. Already, Bill Stapls has posted his Gallery demo (http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1325) that that shows off how managed handler that replaced the Direct Listing module in IIS7. When this module see listing of .jpg files, it will show them in a nice gallery that you can easily browse. This is much better than the typical list of files you you see when you get a directory listing delivered by IIS7. Replacing the IIS 7 directory listing module with a module that provides additional capabilites is meant to show of a simple but powerful idea about how you can use managed code in the process request pipleine to add features to IIS 7. Features that service any kind of content, not just .NET content.

There's soooo much to talk about with IIS 7 - it sort of jams up even a good talker like me. I mean I really like to talk about IIS 7 and I get sorta slammed with "where do I start!".

The Download center also has content for IIS 5 and 6 as well - so it's one stop shopping for downloadable content for IIs. Yeah!

-brett

So, many people will IIS 7 in hand beginning next week with Vista being available. For those of you have not seen it but are interested,you will need to take some time to get up to speed on the new UI and features. Of course, one of the most practical beneifts of IIS 7 on Vista is that you can make more than one website and it's not limited to 10 connections. It will process 10 requests at a time making it impractical to use as a server - but works great as dev platform.

Be sure to get the version of Vista that has the features you want! THEY ARE DIFFERENT. Here's the definitive list of differences on a feature by feature basis: Notice that Windows Authentication in particular is not available on several versions: http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=2&subtabid=25&i=1100

The IIS team is working fevershily on IIS 7 on Longhorn Server. It's not quite time to discuss the key features that will be on the server version that are not on Vista, but they are going to be very, very useful for enteprises and it won't impact your ability to develop code on Vista to run on IIS 7 in any core way. If you write an applicaiton on Vista to use IIS 7 features, it will run on IIS 7. In fact, our experience has shown that in many cases, ihttp handlers and ihttp modules for ASP.net run without modification. That is not always true as there are some differences in the environment between the core pipline of IIS 7 and the ASP.net pipeline in IIS6.

Keep in mind also that when you install IIS 7, you do NOT get an IIS 6 (or IIS 5.1) equivalent. IIS 7 is LESS enabled with a default install than in previous releases. Be sure to install the features you need using Turn on/Off Windows features or package manager. See details here: http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=2&subtabid=25&i=957

Mike Volodarsky has an article about this on IIS.net http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=2&subtabid=23&i=1223. His blog http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/ is also reqruied reading for IIS 7 devs.

Please post problems on IIS.net forums which the team montors. That is the best way, I hope, to get help for  your issues and report problems. It absoulety does happen that people report bugs there and they become fixes in the product. 

Thanks!

Brett

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=28bd5941-c458-46f1-b24d-f60151d875a3&displaylang=en

This release is rich with new features, including the following:

· IE7, Vista, and 64-bit Windows compatibility (currently targets only 32-bit processes, but works on 64-bit platforms)

· Leak rule improvements (dump on memory thresholds)

· Leak monitoring improvements (‘fasttrack’ feature, injection fixes)

· Analysis improvements (Data access components and socket support)

· Custom actions for crash rules (DebugDiag scripts)

· Managed call stack resolution

· Support for managed exceptions (such as System.DivideByZeroException)

· Support for debugger events (such as Module Load and Unload)

· Sample scripts included

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