Managing Configuration Extensions
Configuration extensions are extensions to the configuration system. The configuration system is at the core of the IIS 7.0 administration stack. Its primary purpose is to provide an interface to reading and writing IIS configuration, which is consumed by Web server run time and modules, and which is managed through the tools and APIs in the administration stack. The configuration data itself is stored in a hierarchy of XML files and is broken up into units called configuration sections. In Chapter 4, you can learn more about the configuration file hierarchy and the structure of the configuration sections.
Each configuration section is an XML element that can contain attributes, subelements, and collections of ...
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