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CHAPTER 6 ■ DEPLOYING YOUR WEB SITE
The MIME type for XAML is application/xml+xaml, which you can see configured in
Figure 6-8.
In addition to automatically serving configured MIME types, IIS sometimes uses
ISAPI filters to process specific file types. In the previous example, you were serving an
HTML file, which is a static file that is simply rendered and delivered to the browser.
However, if you are instead serving an ASPX page, as in earlier chapters, to return this
type of resource the server runs an ISAPI extension that is assigned to requests for content
with the .aspx extension. It then receives the response from the ISAPI extension as
HTML and dispatches it back to the client.
Here’s an example of a simple ASPX web page. Save it in a file called Test.aspx in the
same folder you used earlier (i.e., C:\InetPub\wwwroot\Chapter6TestSite).
Untitled Page
When you use the browser to navigate to this file, the C# code will execute and
ASP.NET will generate HTML containing the current time and date. You can see this in
Figure 6-9.