[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change]
The edit-while-running feature can be enabled via the user interface or via the command prompt. You must be an administrator of the IIS computer to enable this feature. Edit-while-running is dependent on the metabase history feature being enabled. The metabase history feature is enabled by default. For more information, see the MaxHistoryFiles property sheet.
The following procedure requires stopping the IIS Admin service. Stopping the IIS Admin service stops all sites until the IIS Admin service is restarted. To enable this feature without interruption of service, you should use the user interface procedure as outlined above.
Note
Step 1 causes the in-memory metabase to be
written to disk, and new MetaBase.xml file to be created by IIS if
there are changes pending in the in-memory metabase.
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\.
Important
To edit the metabase files, use an
application, such as Microsoft Notepad, that writes plaintext.
Using an application that does not write plaintext, such as
Microsoft Word, might corrupt the metabase.
Location = "/LM", change
the value of the EnableEditWhileRunning property from FALSE
to TRUE. The change should look as follows:
EnableEditWhileRunning = "TRUE"
Important
All text within MetaBase.xml should be
considered case sensitive.
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