Monthly Archives: January 2007

The IIS management framework allows configuring the web server using the IIS7 GUI. To understand the code that needs to be written, you have to know more about the management architecture. The IIS GUI allows configuring local and remote servers … Continue reading →

I showed you the HttpModule on which this walkthrough is based on in the last post. This module is always active once it is registered and changes the Server header to a hardcoded value. It would be nice if the … Continue reading →

Writing a module that can intercept requests in IIS7 is very easy. In fact, for people that have written HttpModules in ASP.NET before – this is nothing new at all. The general idea is that you write a class that … Continue reading →

IIS7 (and the tooling around it) has wonderful new features. First of all managed code is now a first class citizen and can do (nearly) everything as the unmanaged API. Almost everything that could be accomplished by ISAPI filters and … Continue reading →

IIS7 uses (nearly) standard .NET .config XML files for configuration. This is great and is one of the coolest features of IIS7 IMO. The metabase is gone (woohoo) and you can mix ASP.NET and IIS7 settings in a single web.config … Continue reading →

Im Januar/Februar werde ich vier WebCasts zum Thema ASP.NET Security für MSDN Deutschland machen. Genaue Informationen über den Februar reiche ich nach – aber im Januar haben wir folgendes auf dem Programm: Security mit ASP.NET 2.0 (Teil 1-4) – Authentifizierung … Continue reading →

CardSpace is a very promising new way of doing strong authentication across trust boundaries (it is much more than that, but there are already very good introductions and in-depth articles about it out there – see the links at the … Continue reading →

Protocol Transition is a handy technology when you have to “convert” a non-Windows credentials to Kerberos. Since PT does not require to know the password of an account to get a token, access to resources using this token is limited. You … Continue reading →