Professional IIS 7 and ASP NET Integrated Programming




The deep integration of IIS7 and ASP.NET provides both IIS7 administrators and ASP.NET developers with new and exciting programming tools, techniques, and approaches that were not possible with earlier versions of IIS. With this book, Dr. Shahram Khosravi presents you with the only resource to focus exclusively on the key features of this exciting integration.

You’ll get in-depth coverage of all the major systems that make up the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated infrastructure, detailed explanations on how they work, guidance on how to use them in your own applications, and techniques for extending them to meet your application requirements.

Packed with detailed code walkthroughs and in-depth analyses of numerous real-world examples - all written and tested with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, ASP.NET 2.0, and ASP.NET 3.5 (Visual Studio 2008), this book helps you gain the skills, knowledge, and experience you need to use and to extend the major systems that make up the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated infrastructure.

Some of the key topics covered include:

  • How to write integrated IIS7 and ASP.NET code that works with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, ASP.NET 2.0, and ASP.NET 3.5 (Visual Studio 2008)
  • Techniques for implementing and plugging custom HTTP modules, handlers, and handler factories into the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated request processing pipeline
  • How to manage the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated configuration system from IIS7 Manager, appcmd.exe, and managed code
  • Tips for using the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated declarative schema extension markup language (, , , , and so on) to implement custom configuration sections
  • Techniques for using and extending the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated managed code system (ConfigurationElement, ConfigurationElementCollectionBase, ConfigurationSection, ApplicationPool, Site, Application, ServerManager and so on) to add support for custom managed classes
  • Tips for extending the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated graphical management system (ModuleServiceProxy, ModuleDialogPage, ModuleListPage, TaskForm, Module, ModuleService, ModuleProvider, TextTaskItem, MethodTaskItem, and so on) to add new graphical components to IIS7 Manager
  • Techniques for using and extending the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated providers system (ProviderConfigurationFeature, ProviderConfigurationSettings, IProviderConfigurationService, ConfigurationModuleProvider, and so on) and ways to implement and to plug custom provider-based services into this system and IIS7 Manager
  • Ways to use the IIS7 and ASP.NET integrated tracing and diagnostics - TraceSource, SourceSwitch, IisTraceListener, EventTypeFilter, RSCA, Request, WorkerProcess, Failed Request Tracing, and so on
  • ASP.NET and Windows Communication Foundation integration in IIS7

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Review the table of contents first.
Make sure to click the “search inside this book” link at the top of this page and browse the table of contents for the book. The book is aimed at a specific kind of IIS 7 developer, not for ASP.NET developers in general who happen to be using IIS 7 now. That being said, the book was just great for getting into these internals, especially the new integrated ASP.NET processing pipeline.

4 Stars Good, but a little repetitive
[also published on http://msmvps.com/blogs/luisabreu/archive/2008/07/23/book-review-professional-iis-7-and-asp-net-integrated-programming.aspx]

Ive just finished reading the Professional IIS 7 and ASP.NET integrated programming book by Dr. Shramram. If youre trying to understand how to leverage the new IIS 7 managed features, then this book is just what you need. If you dont know what you must to to add a GUI interface to your own custom modules/handlers, then this book is for you too!If you want to learn how to administer IIS 7, then this book isnt for you.

The book is really complete (in fact, its too complete, if such a thing exists more details on this in the next paragraphs) reference that contains lots of examples that show you how to integrate your ASP.NET code with IIS 7 and how to extend IIS 7. Having said this, Ive found one or two things that annoyed me while I read the book.

For starterts, youll see lots of C# 2.0 code. Why not use C# 3.0? It simply doesnt make sense to me, but ok, I can live with thatThe second thing that I really didnt like is the ammount of repetition that youll get in the book. For instance, youll get at least one chapter on how to extend the integrated configuration system which are illustrated with dummy classes. And then, in a following chapter youll end up developing real config classes for supporting an url module. My question is simple: why not build the necessary config classes for the module instead of wasting paper with the dummy classes?

And since Im talking about repetitions, theres really one thing I hated: why do we see pages of code which are repeated under the form of snippets so that the author can explain what each one of them do? Including the InitializeComponents is really really uncessary, if you ask me

In conclusion, this book will give all you need if youre interested in understanding how to integrate your ASP.NET code with IIS 7 or if youre interested in seeing how to expand IIS 7. Im giving it a 7.5/10 due to the ammount of unnecessary repetition that the book contains. If it werent for that, I wouldnt have any problems in giving it an 8, but I cant simply ignore the fact that this book has over 600 pages and it could really just have about 400 without any content loss!

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