Using IIS configuration tools to manage HWC configuration

Kanwaljeet Singla — Sat, 29 May 2010 21:09:15 +0000

I have seen many people built some innovative solutions on top of hostable web core (HWC) functionality which was added in IIS7. One of the questions which HWC users frequently ask is how to make IIS configuration tools (like appcmd, UI etc.) work against configuration file which their HWC instance is using. So far they [...]

Ins & Outs of hostable web core

Kanwaljeet Singla — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:05:00 +0000

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.

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Using IIS configuration tools to manage HWC configuration

Ins & Outs of hostable web core