Archive for December, 2007
List of registry keys affecting IIS7 behavior
Dec 30th
Few months ago, I fired procmon and collected all the registry keys IIS7 processes read. I then gathered the information about these registry keys from different people in the team and also collected available information on the internet. I have been sitting on this information for quite a while hoping to make it complete and finally I got enough time during this holiday period to finish this. Below is what all I could gather. Keys affecting FTP/FTP7 and Asp.Net are not included in this article. There are few IIS7 keys omitted from this list either because I couldn’t think of why people would like to change it or because we don’t want to people to modify those. If you see any information missing or incorrect as per your knowledge, please send me a message.
Ins & Outs of hostable web core
Dec 20th
I started writing an application which uses hostable web core (HWC) functionality of IIS7 and before making it available for download I thought it will be useful to write about HWC in detail. Hostable web core enables processes other than w3wp.exe to load IIS core and do almost everything that a worker process can do. One of these “hostable” solutions is the new IIS7 UI tool. It needs to be able to change the configuration of IIS without affecting itself. So the tool needs to run independent of IIS and HWC gives it exactly that.