Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0

MVolo's Blog — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:18:55 GMT

A few weeks back, I put together a detailed article about using Visual Studio 2008 to work with IIS 7

re: Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0

Chris — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:16:24 GMT

I went through all your listed steps to get VS2005 to debug on IIS7/Vista and was successful with normal ASP.NET web applications but NOT with applications using the AJAX extensions.

I tried what some other users recommended and switched IIS to use the classic app pool, but still got the error.

I am running Vista Home Premium using VS2005 SP1 and the Vista VS2005 SP1 update and I also have installed your hotfix for eliminating the need for Windows Authentication. Yet I still can't overcome this AJAX error. If I remove the AJAX specific content from the web.config it will work, but I need to use AJAX for my project.

Any ideas?

re: Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0

Chris — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:19:38 GMT

OK, I wiped my hard drive and installed Vista Ultimate, hoping this would let me get around the problem listed in my comment above. But I'm still getting an error. Quite simply, this seems to be a MAJOR problem with IIS 7! How can Vista not support debugging VS2005 projects WITH AJAX using IIS 7? The specific error message is quite basic: "Error: The web server is not configured correctly" I have Windows authentication enabled, running as administrator, and tried switching to the classic application pool. Still no luck. PLEASE! Any help, otherwise I have to go back to using WinXP and IIS 6. Thanks, Chris

re: Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0

Rupak Ganguly — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:38:57 GMT

I had other issues with Vista SP1, VS 2005 and IIS 7 and I have written a post here http://developershelf.blogspot.com/2008/05/problem-loading-iis7-hosted-wap.html

re: Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0

ndutron — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:12:01 GMT

I`ve read a number of programming articles and and they discourage programmers to use vb. i am quite concerned because I am a programming student and at my university we use vb as our programming language.

re: Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0

ndutron — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:14:27 GMT

re: Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0

greg — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:46:52 GMT

The "Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0" does not appear to be 100% accurate. Step 4 in the section titled "Connect to an IIS 7.0 Web Site Using Front Page Server Extensions" details the use of the command line "%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\50\bin\owsadm.exe" -o install -p LM/W3SVC/ -u but there are problems with this command line. First, I have no clue as to what a SITEID is or how it is determined. Second, CommonProgramFiles is only accurate for a 32 bit installation. CommonProgramFiles(x86) is used for a 64 bit install. Third, the -p LM/W3SVC/ portion is unlikely to be accurate. All the examples shown in the help on the owsadm command show the usage as -p 80 suggesting that the -p argument specifies the port. I cannot be certain of the third problem until I get past the first one.