.NET is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information, people, systems and devices through software. Integrated across the Microsoft platform, .NET technology provides the ability to quickly build, deploy, manage and use connected, security-enhanced solutions with Web services. .NET-connected solutions enable businesses to integrate their systems more rapidly and in a more agile manner and help them realize the promise of information anytime, anywhere, on any device.

In technical terms, Web services are self-describing software modules, semantically encapsulating discrete functionality, wrapped in and accessible via standard Internet communication protocols like XML and SOAP. In business terms, Web services are an approach that helps the business connect with its customers, partners and employees.

Web services are revolutionizing how applications talk to other applications - or, more broadly, how computers talk to other computers - by providing a universal data format that lets data be easily adapted or transformed. Based on XML, the universal language of Internet data exchange, Web services can communicate across platforms and operating systems, regardless of the programming language in which the applications are written.
 

What is the Virtual Directory Manager?

The Virtual Directory Manager available within AW GRUP's Windows Website Management interface is used to create a Virtual Directory for your .NET Application. The AW GRUP Windows Servers support versions 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and version 3.5 of the .NET Framework. The Virtual Directory Manager allows you to specify which version of .NET should be used to run applications in this directory, and in it's subdirectories.

This manager also eases deployment of ASP.NET applications in subdirectories of the website root (which is the web directory). A typical ASP.NET application includes one or more .dll files. When the ASP.NET application runs, the ASP.NET runtime tries to find these binary files in the closest IIS application on or above the subdirectory that contains the ASP.NET application. Now, the website root itself is an IIS application. So while the ASP.NET application files are deployed in a subdirectory of the website root, the ASP.NET runtime looks for the dll files in the website root. It does not find them there, and so it displays an error in the browser.

The Virtual Directory Manager provides a clean solution to this problem. Use it to create an IIS Application on the directory in which you have deployed your .NET application.

Click any of the below mentioned links to understand how to Add a Virtual Directory and/or List/Modify/Delete existing Virtual Directories >>