Given that he admitted that he hasn't been playing with IIS7 in Vista, I sincerely hope that Grant will take the time to download and watch this .NET Show episode about IIS7.

In the show Scott Guthrie and Bill Staples spend and hour and a half walking us through using IIS7 from an ASP.NET developer perspective as well as an administrator who uses either the config files or the IIS GUI tools.

In the show we learn:

• What is IIS7 and what can we use it to do?
• How do we install IIS7> What are all of those install options?
• Look at the new IIS GUI tool and see how to use it.
• Learn about IIS delegation
• Learn how to configure IIS settings from within the web.config file of our ASP.NET apps.
• Learn how to replace IIS modules for our ASP.NET apps.

The section about replacing IIS modules is very cool. In the sample for this feature Bill Staples shows how to replace the Directory Listing page that IIS shows when you enable directory listings. You will have seen the standard directory listing which is basically a simple list of links for each document in the folder. Bill builds a simple HttpModule and adds some IIS modile config settings in his ASP.NET application to replace that simple page. Bill's page displays a directory of images as a rich set of thumbnails on the page.