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The iisnode project allows hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows. As of version 0.1.9, iisnode includes fully integrated debugging experience based on the excellent node-inspector debugger by Danny Coates. These are the benefits of the integrated debugging in iisnode: No-config deployment on Windows: host your node.js application in IIS...

Last week Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell from DotNetRocks interviewed me about running node.js applications on Windows. This is an introductory talk meant to introduce the node.js framework to .NET developers without prior experience with it. It also highlights the efforts around making Windows a great platform to run node.js...

This post describes high level architecture and design of iisnode (as of version 0.1.8), a native Internet Information Services (IIS) module that enables hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows. iisnode is an open source project available at https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode. The diagram below shows key components of iisnode and the relationship...

In my recent posts I talked a lot about iisnode which allows hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows. In this post I will describe ways to track and diagnose failures in node.js apps deployed in IIS using Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) just integrated into v0.1.8 of iisnode. ETW...

I have been working lately on the iisnode project to provide good support for running node.js applications on Windows. Since both node.js itself as well as iisnode version very frequently at this stage, I have set up a set of stable URL aliases that will always point to the latest...

I will be speaking about high density server side JavaScript at JSConf.EU 2011 next weekend. Here is the abstract: Cloud computing reduces the cost of running applications with economies of scale. Major factor in this cost reduction is the granularity of assigning computing resources (CPU, memory, network) to competing applications....

Here are a few quick steps to set up a node.js development environment on Windows: Install WebMatrix: http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/ Install node.js: https://github.com/tjanczuk/node/downloads Install iisnode for IIS Express (choose x86 even on 64 bit systems): https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode/downloads Install Steve’s node.js templates for WebMatrix: https://github.com/SteveSanderson/Node.js-Site-Templates-for-WebMatrix/downloads Open WebMatrix, choose “Site from folder”, enter %localappdata%\iisnode\www, start...

In my last few posts I introduced the iisnode project and talked about specific aspects of hosting node.js applications in IIS 7.x on Windows: Hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows Integration with the URL rewrite module Running node.js express applications In this article I am showing how to use...

In my last two posts I introduced the iisnode project which allows hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows, as well as shown how it integrates with the URL rewrite module. In this post I demonstrate how to run node.js applications that use the popular express framework in IIS. Installing...

In my last post I introduced the iisnode project which allows hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows. In this article I discuss using URL rewriting with node.js apps hosted in IIS, functionality necessary in all but the most trivial IIS hosted node.js applications. The problem Consider the hello world...