IIS6 Programming Handbook [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Srinivasa Sivakumar (Author), S. Vaidyaraman (Author), Michael De Marco (Author), Alex Homer (Author), Christopher Ambler (Author)

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Product Description
This book will provide programmers with a practical and fast-paced guide to the most important features of Microsoft's latest version of Internet Information Services (IIS6).

This exciting new book covers the key areas of interest for web developers who use Windows servers who want to get started with IIS6. These include;

New request Architecture

Security changes

ISAPI changes

COM+ Services

XML Metabase

Quality of service

HTTP Compression

Performance

IPv6 support

FTP Restart

Logging

Unicode support

New ISAPI support functions

Persisted template cache

Along the way, you will learn useful new techniques which will allow you to have a head-start when you use IIS6.

From the Publisher
Internet Information Services (IIS) is the part of Windows server operating systems that allows web sites to be published. IIS6 is the latest version of IIS, and is part of the next Windows server release, Windows .NET Server. Most web applications on the new server platform will be based on IIS. IIS6 adds several new features that are of interest to web application developers. This book will tell them everything that they need to know.

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press; 1st edition (March 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861008392
• ISBN-13: 978-1861008398
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,073,029 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Simply awful., June 2, 2003

By A Customer

It's amazing that a book so short can be so repetitive. I lost track of how many times I was told that IIS 6 installs in a sepcial "locked down" state. Somehow, the book manage to avoid getting in any real detail about other security issues, like certificates and how to install SSL. What's worse, sometimes the repetition isn't even in agreement. For example, early in the chapter we're told that setting ODBC logging disables the kernel cache automatically. Later on, we're warned that if we enable ODBC logging, the kernel cache feature will still work and hits won't be logged. I'm still waiting for a third chapter to weigh in with the tie-breaking vote.

Perhaps the most entertaining part of this book is it's puzzling Confucius like sentences and complete disregard for grammar. Chapter 5 (Administering IIS) is particularly notable--it includes sentences like "Since ABO can't be used in scripts, we cannot use it to investigate ABO since they'll not be handy for us to do stuff quickly" (page 129) and "MMC is the most famous way to administrate" (page 102). No, I'm not making this up, and yes, I could continue, but I don't have time--I have to find a new IIS 6 book to make up for the time I've wasted reading this one.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars bloody horrible., June 28, 2004

By	Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Christopher Ambler et al., IIS6 Programming Handbook (Wrox, 2003)

Maybe it's just me. But when I see the words "Programming Handbook" in a title, I expect code. Lots of code. Pages of stuff on how to use code, how to write code, how to apply code to a specific application, you name it. But it's all about the code.

The IIS6 Programming Handbook is a reference manual that could have been written by Microsoft itself. In other words, it's needlessly abstruse, unhelpful, suffering from an almost complete lack of examples or explanations of the things it's trying to illuminate, and in other words, is all-around unhelpful to, I suspect, anyone but those who already know what the book's talking about. And if you do, you probably don't need this book. The first computer book in my collection about current technology that's going to Half price Books before the tech becomes obsolete. *, because I finished it (though I was reduced to skimming the last hundred pages or so).

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointingly Short, April 3, 2003

By	Mark - See all my reviews

I eagerly gobbled up this work... the first of its kind on IIS. Unfortunately, when it arrived I realized what it was: a five-author collaboration totalling a mere 200 pages. And these are 200 small (handbook size) pages, with a lengthy intro! Despite containing some good information, this one is definitely not worth the price.