iis-metabase

Should AspBufferLimit ever need to be increased from the default of 4 MB?

A fellow developer recently requested that the AspBufferLimit in IIS 6 be increased from the default value of 4 MB to around 200 MB for streaming larger ZIP files. Having left the Classic ASP world some time ago, I was scratching my head as to why you'd want to buffer a BinaryWrite and simply suggested setting Response.Buffer = false. ...

How to restore an IIS Metabase backup using C#

I've found the Stack Overflow question describing how to backup the IIS Metabase in C# here, and I have been successful at getting that to work using the code referenced here. However, I am having difficulty restoring those backups (or indeed any backups created manually in IIS) using C# code. Does anyone know how to do this, or even i...

Why IIS 6.0 metabase compatibility is required to be installed on IIS 7.0?

I recently encountered some harrowing time with our application's installer not able to run due to the non-availability of IIS 6.0 metabase compatibility on my Win2008 machine. I am curious to know why is this required, can anybody provide some insights? ...

IIS 7 metabase: Setting the framework version and the managed pipeline mode programmatically

How can I set the ehe .net framework version and the managed pipeline mode programmatically for a IIS 7 programmatic via C#? What a the metabase property names for that? ...

Is there something like IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools for IIS 7?

Is there something like IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools for IIS 7, specially the metabase explorer tool to be able to edit the IIS configurations without editing the .xml and .config files directly? ...