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I was approached by an attendee at the Christchurch Code Camp yesterday with question that at the time I could not answer -  I should have been able to answer but my brain was frazzled.

Question

What is the difference between a virtual directory and an application in IIS 7?

Answer

The correct answer is:

A Virtual Directory and an application allows you to create an alias for a physical folder that may actually reside in a different folder, or disk drive or even computer than the current physical path.

The difference with IIS 7 is that an Application allows you to specify a different Application Pool where as a Virtual Directory does not.

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posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 10:22 AM |

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