What is role of IIS in asp.net ?

[Pradnya Patil]

Hi ,
Can someone tell me about IIS ? Why do we need it ? What
is exact role of IIS in ASP.NET web application development and
deployment ?
I would like to know all IIS-basics from scratch..
Thanks in advance....

... Pradnya Patil

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

IIS hosts ASP.NET applications, as do other internet servers,
like Cassini, and Apache under Linux or under MAC OS X.

I find MojoPortal to be an interesting application:
http://www.mojoportal.com/

MojoPortal is an Object Oriented web site framework written in C# that runs
under ASP.NET on Windows or under Mono on Linux or Mac OS X.

 

[Laurent Bugnion [MVP]]

Hi,

Hi ,
Can someone tell me about IIS ? Why do we need it ? What
is exact role of IIS in ASP.NET web application development and
deployment ?
I would like to know all IIS-basics from scratch..
Thanks in advance....

... Pradnya Patil

A newsgroup is not a good place to learn "from scratch" about a subject.

IIS is the web server typically used with ASP.NET. You can use it for
development (though Visual Studio 2005 now has a development web server,
so IIS is not strictly necessary anymore) and for production.

IIS is a very complex subject. I recommend you find a book about this.
Additionally, you will probably enjoy Scott Gu's blog, he is an
excellent specialist of IIS at Microsoft and great at explaining how it
works.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

HTH,
Laurent

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:

you will probably enjoy Scott Gu's blog

Indeed!

Microsoft's IIS Team site is a great IIS resource, too!

http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=2

Hi,



A newsgroup is not a good place to learn "from scratch" about a subject.

IIS is the web server typically used with ASP.NET. You can use it for development (though Visual
Studio 2005 now has a development web server, so IIS is not strictly necessary anymore) and for
production.