Today we released IWEB 03.00.00 after an extensive Beta testing period of nearly two months. This release contains the file manager code created by Ian Lackey as well as the IWeb Explorer file manager client that was also created by Ian. I added methods to create and retrieve a user.

The next version will be IWeb 04.00.00 (unless we find bugs in 03.00.00, in that case we will do a point release). 04.00.00 will use Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and require that you have ASP.NET 3.0 or higher installed (For IWeb 03.00.00 you only need ASP.NET 2.0 installed).

Using WCF we will be able to allow you to expose any method from your custom module as web services method and still use the extensive IWeb security configuration screen to set granular access to those methods. You will be able to write those methods in any ASP.NET language and you will not have to actually add the methods to IWeb. IWeb will "discover" that the methods exist (because you will implement a special interface). In addition, WCF will allow you to expose your methods using multiple protocols.

We anticipate a release sometime in 2nd quarter of 2008.