Posts tagged RSCA
Exposing runtime data from IIS worker processes
May 27th
Dynamic properties feature in IIS7 configurtion system lets you expose dynamic data as configuration system properties. RscaExt.xml which is part of IIS7 has all the RSCA (runtime status and control APIs) functionality exposed as dynamic properties through configuration system (read more here). One of the things RSCA let you do is expose custom runtime data from a worker process using GetCustomData method. You can call GetCustomData method for a worker process instance which sends a GL_RSCA_QUERY notification to the worker process.
Working with RSCA using configuration APIs
Jul 25th
One of the new features in IIS7 in windows server 2008 enable people to extend existing IIS configuration sections. If you have a schema file in schema folder which defines section already defined in IIS_Schema.xml, IIS configuration system will merge the schema defined in these two files. This enables you to add owner, email, phone properties to sites and have then keep this data under sites section in applicationHost.config. In addition to this, there is a new concept of dynamic properties. These are the properties which doesn’t have static values in configuration files but whose values can be supplied dynamically by some COM components. Dynamic properties can support get/set operations as other configuration properties. Other than get and set, configuration system allows you to define methods in schema which can be called using configuration APIs. These methods can accept input and return output as well.