Hi Paul,

Thanks for the good articles. I wish you published them a while back, when I
was trying find an answer to the same question. ;-) I am still surprised
that there is no MSDN document which would explain in simple terms the
difference between IIS applications and virtual directories. And yes, a lot
of folks (including experienced developers), often use the wrong terms.

It is funny that with all the hype over xcopy deployment, you still need to
run IIS Admin tool (or some script) to create virtual directories. I wonder,
why Microsoft did not change this.

Just a minor suggestion, if I may. It would be nice if you added information
about what actually makes a virtual directory an IIS application to your
first article. You explain well enough the differences between the two and
describe how to make an IIS application but I am wondering what actually
makes it an IIS application, i.e. what does IIS look for to distinguish
between the two. It is definitely not in the config files. My guess is that
it must be an entry in IIS metabase.

Alek

P.S. Good tip about using tilde (~).

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