Mvolo writes another great piece about coding for IIS7. In this detailed blog entry, he covers how to write and why to write modules and handlers on IIS7.  

Mike Volodarsky's ServerSide : Developing IIS7 modules and handlers with the .NET framework

Well, I just had to post this, since it's all gushy and everything about how brilliant I am. Of course, they make it sound so much better than it is. If you want a truly humbling experience of how little you know about IIS, have a drink with Mike Volodarsky, or Carlos Aguilar Mares or Thomas Deml or Eric Deily or Wade Hilmo or about 30 other people at Microsoft. Of course, the cool thing is I get to do that occasionally.

 Re: the book, yes I am working on a book for MS Press that will be part of the Windows Server 2008 Resource Guide. If anyone out there knows me, this is a big deal since I've somehow managed to by all these years without writing a book. Not that I haven't tried! I just found that it was way toooooo time consuming and a good technical guy can make more doing other things. Of course, it's a good way to build your reputation, but when you had the number 1 site on google when you typed in IIS, my content and programs for training we already highly discoverable. So, a book didn't really make sense for me. Now, though, that I'm a just another newb at Microsoft and my sites rankings have languished, it makes sense to do something to stoke the flames of fame and fortune. Ha! Like a resource guide ever make anyone famous or rich. In truth, the reason I'm doing this is because it needs to be done and I'm a unique situation to help it along.Other writers (some of which you will recognize) are deeply involved, but I can't speak for them. 

So hop on over to applied.net and get yourself an IIS7 site!

-brett 

Other The Guy that wrote the book on IIS7 (well is writing)

That’s Microsoft’s, Brett Hill in the middle. Brett is writing ‘the book on IIS7′ and has been instrumental in our launching of IIS7 hosting.  You always think you know a program better than anyone else out there and then a guy like Brett comes along and reminds you just how much more you need to learn.  Brett’s truly the expert on IIS7 and you can often find him posting over at www.iis.net.

jesscoburn.com Tidbits and thoughts on webhosting, web applications and just general cool geek crap.

This is an good article on installing Das Blog on IIS7 on Vista. This process would be similar for many IIS6 .NET applications.

-brett 

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - 32bitness and 64bitness and migrating DasBlog on IIS7 and ASP.NET under Vista64

Mr Mike is at it again. This time he's showing off how a developer can easily integrate PHP with IIS7. He details using .NET form auth with MySQL and Wordpress.

Just one of many examples to come about how IIS7 will allow developers to enter a new world of integrated services.

-brett 

Mike Volodarsky's ServerSide : IIS Authentication plugin for the Wordpress PHP blogging engine

Application Pool Recycle Utility for SharePoint Developers

Ran across this utility today that helps you to manage your application pools. Have a look!

I've got a new job here at Microsoft as Technical Product Manager for Hosting Solutions. One of the first things up is a GIGANTIC roadshow we're producing for hosters to get hands on with IIS7. Best part is, I get to design the labs and content! I'm really excited to be working on this. The event is sadly only 1 day long, but is jammed with hands on labs and lectures so that attendees can go back and deploy IIS7 in their environment. The lab topics are IT Pro oriented rather than developer focused so don't sign up expecting to learn how to write an ihttp module. Do signgup if you're in the hosting industry and want to know how to deploy, configure, migrate apps, and troubleshoot IIS7. Of course, we're focusing on the new features rather than "this is a website.. it is used to deliver http content.." blah blah blah. Also, I try to keep marketing spin to a minimum.  My philoosphy has always been to let the technology sell itself.

It's worldwide and registraitons are open now for hosing industry personnnel.

REGISTER HERE!

Brett

Monster IIS7 and .NET program manager (who can't help but write code) Mike Volo has just posted a new tool to help you extend the IIS7 schema. This is a developer feature that allows you to add your own configuration items to IIS7. So you could write a module or handler and store the configuration for it write in apphost.config or a delegated web.config instead of in the system.web section of web.config only. In this way, you can use the IIS7 APIs to control, configure, deploy you app along with IIS7. You can also write your own extensions to the IIS UI and have them use your schema extensions so your additions are seamlessly integrated with the UI.

 Cool stuff, check it out.

Mike Volodarsky's ServerSide : IISSCHEMA.EXE - A tool to register IIS7 configuration sections