Geeky Bob

As I pointed out in my recent blog post that was titled "FTP 7.5 and WebDAV 7.5 have been released", one of the great new features of the FTP 7.5 service is extensibility. In that blog post I mentioned that I wrote the following walkthroughs to help developers get started writing providers for the FTP 7.5 service, and these walkthroughs are all available on Microsoft's learn.iis.net Web site:

• For Managed Code Developers:
  • How to Use Managed Code to Create a Simple FTP Authentication Provider
  • How to Use Managed Code to Create a Simple FTP Home Directory Provider
  • How to Use Managed Code to Create a Simple FTP Logging Provider
• For Native Code Developers:
  • How to Use Native Code to Create a Simple FTP Authentication Provider
  • How to Use Native Code to Create a Simple FTP Home Directory Provider
  • How to Use Native Code to Create a Simple FTP Logging Provider

We have also recently published the FTP Service Extensibility Reference on Microsoft's MSDN Web site, and here is a list of all the reference topics that we have written for FTP 7.5 service extensibility:

• FTP Managed-Code Extensibility API Reference
  • FTP Managed-Code Extensibility Interfaces
    • IFtpAuthenticationProvider Interface
      • IFtpAuthenticationProvider.AuthenticateUser Method
      • IFtpAuthenticationProvider.Initialize Method
    • IFtpHomeDirectoryProvider Interface
      • IFtpHomeDirectoryProvider.GetUserHomeDirectoryData Method
      • IFtpHomeDirectoryProvider.Initialize Method
    • IFtpLogProvider Interface
      • IFtpLogProvider.Log Method
      • IFtpLogProvider.Initialize Method
    • IFtpRoleProvider Interface
      • IFtpRoleProvider.IsUserInRole Method
      • IFtpRoleProvider.Initialize Method
  • FTP Managed-Code Extensibility Structures
    • FtpLogEntry Class
• FTP Native-Code Extensibility API Reference
  • FTP Native-Code Extensibility Interfaces
    • IFtpAuthenticationProvider Interface
      • IFtpAuthenticationProvider::AuthenticateUser Method
    • IFtpHomeDirectoryProvider Interface
      • IFtpHomeDirectoryProvider::GetUserHomeDirectoryData Method
    • IFtpLogProvider Interface
      • IFtpLogProvider::Log Method
    • IFtpProviderConstruct Interface
      • IFtpProviderConstruct::Construct Method
    • IFtpRoleProvider Interface
      • IFtpRoleProvider::IsUserInRole Method
  • FTP Native-Code Extensibility Structures
    • LOGGING_PARAMETERS Structure

I hope this helps!

Note: This blog was originally posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/robert_mcmurray/

In case you haven't already surmised from some of my other blog posts, I've been around IIS for a long time, so it should go without saying that I'm a big fan of IIS.

I remember when we first released IIS 1.0 for Windows NT 3.51 and we were handing out IIS CD-ROMs at trade shows way back in early 1996; everyone kept asking, "What is this for?" (Obviously the Internet was still a new concept to a lot of people back then.) Out of nostalgia, I kept a shrink-wrapped copy of IIS 1.0 for myself, and I think that I have one of the few boxes left. It usually sits in my office next to my IIS 4.0 Limited Edition CD-ROM...

Anyway, over the years the IIS team has printed up an assortment of IIS shirts, and I have been wearing several of these various IIS shirts as I have travelled around the world. Because I have been doing so for some time, I've found myself advertising IIS in some unexpected places. For example, my wife and I were visiting our daughter in Peru this past March, and we took the following photograph of my daughter and me (wearing one of my IIS shirts) at Machu Picchu:

So - you may ask, "What does IIS have to do with one of the newest wonders of the world?" My answer is, "Um... nothing, really." I happened to be wearing my IIS shirt that day, and it made a pretty good photo. (Obviously, it was a bad hair day for me... so I'm blaming the mountain winds. ;-] )

As another example, my son and I took a road trip down the California coast this past summer to visit my brother in San Francisco, and we posed for the following photo before boarding the boat to Alcatraz:

There are other times where I have taken advantage of a situation to deliberately and shamelessly pose for IIS. For example, I was scuba diving in Hawaii a couple of years ago, and I borrowed someone's dive slate to write the following message:

Actually, I tend to wear IIS shirts when I go scuba diving as a matter of habit - it's kind of a good luck charm for me - and this behavior of mine has led to some interesting experiences.

For example, my wife and I were going scuba diving in the Bahamas several years ago, and once again I was wearing one of my IIS t-shirts that day. The dive company had sent a van to our hotel to pick up several divers, and as I climbed aboard, one of the other passengers saw my shirt and remarked, "Oh, we have an IIS person today. I'm more of an Apache Girl myself." I quickly replied, "That's okay, everybody needs a hobby." I really only expected her to get the joke, but apparently we had a tech-savvy group that day because everyone else on the bus chimed in with, "Ooooooh - you're in trouble." I didn't realize what everyone meant until we got to the dive boat where Apache Girl came walking up to me holding an air tank and said, "I'm your dive guide today, and I picked this air tank especially for you." We both had a good laugh, and I survived the dive so she can thankfully take a joke.

All that being said, I really like to show off IIS. It's a lot of fun to demonstrate the many features of IIS to customers at trade shows, and it's a lot of fun to unofficially advertise IIS when I'm traveling on vacation in various places around the world. So if you see me when I'm on vacation somewhere, the chances are good that you'll be able to find me in a crowd - because I'll be the geek wearing the IIS shirt.

Note: This blog was originally posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/robert_mcmurray/

Using this FrontPage VBA Macro

This FrontPage VBA Macro is designed to fix potential filename problems by:

• Converting all filenames to lowercase.
• Converting all non-alphanumeric characters to underscore characters.
• Removing duplicate underscore characters.

FrontPage VBA Macro Example Code

Public Sub FixFilenames()
   Dim objWebFile As WebFile
   Dim objWebFolder As WebFolder
   Dim strOldFile As String
   Dim strNewFile As String

   If Len(Application.ActiveWeb.Title) = 0 Then
      MsgBox "A web must be open." & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Aborting.", vbCritical
      Exit Sub
   End If

   For Each objWebFolder In Application.ActiveWeb.AllFolders
Here:
      For Each objWebFile In objWebFolder.Files
         strOldFile = objWebFile.Name
         strNewFile = FixName(strOldFile)
         If strNewFile <> strOldFile Then
            objWebFile.Move objWebFolder.Url & "/" & strNewFile & _
               ".tmp.xyz." & objWebFile.Extension, True, False
            objWebFile.Move objWebFolder.Url & "/" & strNewFile, True, False
            GoTo Here
         End If
      Next
   Next

   MsgBox "Finished!"

End Sub

Private Function FixName(ByVal tmpOldName As String) As String
   Dim intChar As Integer
   Dim strChar As String
   Dim tmpNewName As String

   Const strValid = "1234567890_-.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

   tmpOldName = LCase(tmpOldName)

   For intChar = 1 To Len(tmpOldName)
      strChar = Mid(tmpOldName, intChar, 1)
      If InStr(strValid, strChar) Then
         tmpNewName = tmpNewName & strChar
      Else
         tmpNewName = tmpNewName & "_"
      End If
   Next

   Do While InStr(tmpNewName, "__")
      tmpNewName = Replace(tmpNewName, "__", "_")
   Loop

   Do While InStr(tmpNewName, "_-_")
      tmpNewName = Replace(tmpNewName, "_-_", "_")
   Loop

   FixName = tmpNewName

End Function