Demetrius Tsitrelis said
Khosravi has written a nice book about extending and integrating with IIS 7. As such this is a niche book, but a good one if you need it.
Luis Abreu said
[also published on http://msmvps.com/blogs/luisabreu/archive/2008/07/23/book-review-professional-iis-7-and-asp-net-integrated-programming.aspx]
Ive just finished reading the Professional IIS 7 and ASP.NET integrated programming book by Dr. Shramram. If youre trying to understand how to leverage the new IIS 7 managed features, then this book is just what you need. If you dont know what you must to to add a GUI interface to your own custom modules/handlers, then this book is for you too!If you want to learn how to administer IIS 7, then this book isnt for you.
The book is really complete (in fact, its too complete, if such a thing exists more details on this in the next paragraphs) reference that contains lots of examples that show you how to integrate your ASP.NET code with IIS 7 and how to extend IIS 7. Having said this, Ive found one or two things that annoyed me while I read the book.
For starterts, youll see lots of C# 2.0 code. Why not use C# 3.0? It simply doesnt make sense to me, but ok, I can live with thatThe second thing that I really didnt like is the ammount of repetition that youll get in the book. For instance, youll get at least one chapter on how to extend the integrated configuration system which are illustrated with dummy classes. And then, in a following chapter youll end up developing real config classes for supporting an url module. My question is simple: why not build the necessary config classes for the module instead of wasting paper with the dummy classes?
And since Im talking about repetitions, theres really one thing I hated: why do we see pages of code which are repeated under the form of snippets so that the author can explain what each one of them do? Including the InitializeComponents is really really uncessary, if you ask me
In conclusion, this book will give all you need if youre interested in understanding how to integrate your ASP.NET code with IIS 7 or if youre interested in seeing how to expand IIS 7. Im giving it a 7.5/10 due to the ammount of unnecessary repetition that the book contains. If it werent for that, I wouldnt have any problems in giving it an 8, but I cant simply ignore the fact that this book has over 600 pages and it could really just have about 400 without any content loss!
Jason Fossen said
Make sure to click the "search inside this book" link at the top of this page and browse the table of contents for the book. The book is aimed at a specific kind of IIS 7 developer, not for ASP.NET developers in general who happen to be using IIS 7 now. That being said, the book was just great for getting into these internals, especially the new integrated ASP.NET processing pipeline.
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