CarlosAg Blog
Using IIS Manager Users Authentication in your Web Application
Today in the IIS.NET Forums a question was asked if it was possible to use the same IIS Manager...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 09/25/2008
Modifying IIS 7.0 Administration.config using Javascript and AHADMIN
AHADMIN is the COM API that IIS 7.0 uses for reading and writing its configuration system. One of...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 09/10/2008
"EXCEL.EXE is not a valid Win32 application" problem in Windows Vista
Every now and then after leaving my computer running for several weeks I would get a weird error...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 09/05/2008
IIS 7.0 and URL Rewrite, make your Web Site SEO
In the past few days I've been reading a bit about SEO and trying to understand more about what...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 09/02/2008
Configuring SSL using Javascript in IIS 7.0
In IIS 7.0 the configuration system has a nice feature that lets you extend it using what we...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 08/26/2008
Application Request Routing and the IIS 7.0 Web Management Service
Yesterday I was having a conversation with Anil Ruia who happens to be the ARR (Application Request...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 08/21/2008
Back again
For the past month its been pretty quiet in my blog since I have been a little bit busy with the...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 08/19/2008
Very funny blog to read, Linux Hater's blog
One of the things I try to regularly do is to read blogs that are not necessarily pro-Microsoft and...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 07/08/2008
IIS 7.0 Remote Administration and Database Manager Video
DiscountASP.net published a very nice video that shows how you can enable IIS Manager and Database...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 07/07/2008
Adding ASP.NET Tracing to IIS 7.0 Failed Request Tracing
IIS 7.0 Failed Request Tracing (for historical reasons internally we refer to it as FREB, since it...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 07/04/2008
Mapping a different file extension for ASPX Pages in IIS 7.0
Today I read a question in one of the IIS.NET forums - although I'm not sure if this is what they...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 07/04/2008
DiscountASP.net releases new IIS 7.0 Manager modules
DiscountASP.net who has been a very close partner of the IIS Team leading several offerings of our...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 07/02/2008
IIS 7.0 Site ID Computation
In my previous post I mentioned that IIS Manager (more specifically Microsoft.Web.Administration)...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 06/13/2008
Faster IIS Web Sites Provisioning using Microsoft Web Administration
Yesterday I got an email about some performance numbers that one of our customers were running into...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 06/12/2008
Extending the IIS Configuration System using COM
Today I was going to post about extending the IIS Configuration, in particular about a feature that...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 06/10/2008
IIS Admin Pack: Database Manager
OK, this blog entry sat in my drafts for more than a month now, but finally today I will be talking...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 06/02/2008
New Articles for Building IIS Manager Extensions Published in IIS.NET
Gurpreet Singh who is a developer in my team published last week a couple of articles on how to...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 05/30/2008
URL Rewrite Technical Preview 1 available
Today we are releasing a very cool feature that lots of customers have really been asking for, URL...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 05/30/2008
IIS Admin Pack Technical Preview 2 Released
Today we are releasing the Technical Preview 2 of the IIS Admin Pack, it is an update of the release...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 05/13/2008
IIS 7.0 Talk at ASP.NET Connections at Orlando
Last Monday I gave a presentation at the ASP.NET Connections event in Orlando, the title was IIS 7.0...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 04/28/2008
Not getting IntelliSense in your web.config for system.webServer sections in Visual Studio 2008?
Today I was playing a bit with Visual Studio 2008 and was surprised to see that I was not getting...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 04/19/2008
How to register a new Section Definition using Microsoft.Web.Administration
Today I was asked how can someone would be able to add a new section definition using...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 04/15/2008
Host your own Web Server in your application using IIS 7.0 Hostable Web Core
IIS 7.0 includes a very cool feature that is not so well known called Hostable WebCore (HWC). This...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 04/14/2008
IIS Admin Pack: Configuration Editor
Today I will be talking about one of the features included in the new IIS Admin Pack called...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 03/31/2008
IIS 7.0 Admin Pack: Request Filtering
My last post talked about the Technical Preview release of the IIS 7.0 Admin Pack, and how it...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 03/24/2008
IIS Admin Pack Technical Preview 1 Released
NOTE: IIS Admin Pack Technical Preview 2 has been released:...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 03/21/2008
Search your configuration sections in web.config files using IIS 7.0 API's
Background In IIS 7.0 we have the great functionality to allow you to configure the Web Server...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 03/18/2008
IIS 7.0 Manager for Windows XP, 2003 and Vista SP1
Technorati Tags: IISLast Wednesday we released the IIS Manager 7.0 client for Windows XP SP2,...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 03/04/2008
Windows Live Writer Plugin to insert Colorized Code
When I installed Windows Live Writer for the first time I was skeptical of having a different blog...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 03/03/2008
Using Microsoft.Web.Administration in Windows PowerShell
A couple of months ago I wrote about using LINQ with Microsoft.Web.Administration to manage and...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 02/10/2008
Looking for an Icon Editor?
If you are like me and every now and then develop applications that you want to create an icon for,...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 01/18/2008
Backgammon and Connect4 for Windows Mobile
During the holidays my wife and I went back to visit our families in Mexico City where we are...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 01/06/2008
Sudoku and Tetris Game for Windows Mobile
During my last two business trips (to Barcelona for TechEd and Mexico for ReMix) I was way too bored...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 12/21/2007
TechEd Barcelona - Extending IIS 7.0 Part 1-2
Yesterday I did the Extending IIS 7.0 Talk Part 1 of 2. Full session name was: INF303 Extending the...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 11/07/2007
See you at TechEd Developers 2007 in Barcelona!
Today I'm flying to Barcelona to attend TechEd Developer 2007. I will be talking about IIS 7...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 11/02/2007
Using LINQ with Microsoft.Web.Administration
With the upcoming release of .NET 3.5 and LINQ I thought it would be interesting to show some of the...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 10/24/2007
Using the IIS 7.0 Managed Configuration API
More than a year ago I wrote about Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll and how it was a new API we were...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 09/28/2007
Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager for Windows XP, 2003 and Windows Vista SP1 RC0 is available for download
NOTE: RTM has been released see the following blog:...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 09/27/2007
Heading to TechEd 2007
Tomorrow I'm flying to Orlando to attend TechEd 2007. I will be talking about IIS 7 Extensibility...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 06/02/2007
Extending the IIS Manager Home page
IIS Manager provides a lot of extensibility points for developers, one of them is the new Home page...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 05/11/2007
Free Sudoku Game for Windows
A couple of years ago a friend of mine introduced me to a game called Sudoku, and immediately I...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 03/19/2007
IIS Reports for IIS Manager 7
I have just uploaded a new application that extends IIS Manager 7 for Windows Vista and Windows...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 03/03/2007
Recent Tasks in IIS Manager 7
Talking to a good friend of mine (Daniel) about random geeky stuff, suddenly he showed me one of the...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 02/16/2007
Extending the TreeView in IIS 7 in Windows Vista
Extending the Hierarchy Tree View in InetMgrInetMgr exposes several extensibility points that...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 08/11/2006
See you at TechEd
Tomorrow I'll be leaving for Boston to attend TechEd 2006. This time I will be showing off the new...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 06/10/2006
https://www.IIS.net is live!
Today we launched our first public team web site. https://www.IIS.net In this web site we are...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 05/23/2006
The new Configuration System in IIS 7
Today I was planning on talking about the configuration classes that I purposedly skipped in my last...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 04/25/2006
Microsoft.Web.Administration in IIS 7
While creating the new administration stack in IIS 7, we were looking into the different ways users...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 04/17/2006
The evil WinForms Splitter
Beware of SplitPosition. Today I spent quite some time debugging an issue in the new product I am...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 11/09/2005
See you at PDC
Well, I’m really excited to be heading to PDC’05, it sure promise to be an interesting...
Author: CarlosAg Date: 09/08/2005