IISinformation.com » Development http://www.iisinformation.com All Things IIS Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 IIS Express http://www.iisinformation.com/2010/07/iis-express/ http://www.iisinformation.com/2010/07/iis-express/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:21:55 +0000 admin http://www.iisinformation.com/?p=1957 Scott Guthrie recently announced an upcoming beta of IIS Express.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/28/introducing-iis-express.aspx

It is a cross between the built in Developer web server (Casinni) and a full blown IIS install on your PC.  This is extremely helpful for those who are still using XP or Vista and need to have the features of IIS7.   In a corporate enviroment many developers are still on XP as an OS.  They are limited to the local IIS 5.1 features or they have to use the built in ASP.net developer web server that is included in Visual Studio.

Both of these options miss key elements that reside on the desitination servers that developers publish to.  What happens is that a deveroper cannot fully test features or their applications because of the limitations of their local machine.

Items like URL rewrite, SSL, host headers, and endpoints cannot be re-created on local machines.  It sounds like IIS Express will be a great tool to help eliminate these issues.  Of course if you have IIS7 available and are running Win 7 you don’t have these problems.  However,that is not the case for many Developers in a larger corporate environment.

We are looking forward to this new tool to test and see how well it works.  For anyone who has tried to write a WCF service on XP they will quickly understand the value of this tool.

]]> http://www.iisinformation.com/2010/07/iis-express/feed/ 0 Dotnetpanel – going open source – Websitepanel http://www.iisinformation.com/2010/04/dotnetpanel-going-open-source-websitepanel/ http://www.iisinformation.com/2010/04/dotnetpanel-going-open-source-websitepanel/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:11:12 +0000 admin http://www.iisinformation.com/?p=1941 One of the most feature complete windows web hosting panels has recently gone open source.  If you have not had the chance to use dotnetpanel you now can get a great windows hosting panel for free (BSD license).   We have talked about dotnetpanel in the past and I am really excited to give the new version websitepanel a try.  We will be doing a walk-through of this product in the next few weeks.

A great thanks to the dotnetpanel / websitepanel team for opening up this project.    After reading some of the forums it is unclear of why this was turned open source, but I’m sure we will hear more in the next few months.

This is a great tool that is now available for everyone.  Source can be downloaded from sourceforge.

http://www.websitepanel.net/

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With this new year we plan to keep IIS comments, topics, forums, and information flowing.  Please email us your questions.  Send us your issues, call out to us on problems. We will do as much as we can to focus on all things IIS.

Regrouping and hoping to make this a destination site for all things IIS.

In the next few months please check back to see our new features and additions. We have a series planned on IIS extensions and performance. Send us your ideas, comments, and suggestions.

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There is a new Microsoft program for startup companies called WebsiteSpark

http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark/

It allows small shops (design firms, developers, etc..) to get big name software cheap, basically free after 100 bucks.  I won’t go into all the details, check out the site.  What I do see from this is an opportunity to further Microsoft Development and also get the right tools out to the right people.

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http://www.asp.net/ajax/cdn/

This is great as a server administrator.  Users will pull the AJAX (javascript) files from a microsoft server instead of your server.   Savings can be seen in the time serving the file and also the bandwidth.

QUOTE:

By taking advantage of the Microsoft Ajax CDN, you can significantly
improve the performance of your Ajax applications. The contents of the
Microsoft Ajax CDN are cached on servers located around the world. In
addition, the Microsoft Ajax CDN enables browsers to reuse cached
JavaScript files for Web sites that are located in different domains.

]]> http://www.iisinformation.com/2009/10/cdn-ajax/feed/ 0 SMTP and IIS on Vista and Windows 7 http://www.iisinformation.com/2007/04/smtp-and-iis-on-vista-and-windows-7/ http://www.iisinformation.com/2007/04/smtp-and-iis-on-vista-and-windows-7/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:45:07 +0000 admin http://iisinformation.strongerweb.com/?p=4 As the developers progress with using Vista people are finding some things that need to be addressed.

One of the items left out of vista is an SMTP server.  In XP and older operating systems you can have this installed with IIS.  However, vista does not include an smtp server.

You have a few options out there to download (http://softstack.com/freesmtp.html) or (http://www.smartertools.com/Products/SmarterMail/Free.aspx)

The most recent into is a project called papercut on codeplex.  This is my favorite for development. http://papercut.codeplex.com/ It receives messages but does not send them.  So you can just locally view your emails.

Steve (Steve Schofield) has a good post discussing this.  I wish I would have done a search before I started looking all over vista to find the app to install.

I am interested to hear the logic on why SMTP was not even an option or a downloadable option for Vista.  This may make it difficult for some developers to use their local machine

UPDATE (2010) – if you need a temporary fix for development try http://papercut.codeplex.com/

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