Hosting ASP.NET Applications

ASP.NET has been the application framework platform of choice for developing rich Web applications for an IIS environment. IIS 7.0 takes this further by integrating ASP.NET 2.0 with its request processing pipeline. This elevates ASP.NET from being an application framework that sits on top of the Web server to being a full-fidelity .NET API for extending the Web server at its core.

This design brings multiple benefits to the IIS 7.0 platform. First, it enables the modular Web server features to be developed with the power of the .NET Framework and the rich features of ASP.NET. Second, it enables many of the existing ASP.NET application services to be used on the Web server in a framework-neutral way, for both ASP.NET ...

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