Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0

I've blogged quite a bit about using Visual Studio to develop and debug IIS 7.0 applications in the past. A few weeks back, I put together a detailed article about using Visual Studio 2008 to work with IIS 7.0 applications, collecting all the various how-to and gotchas in one place.

Now, you can find the same information for Visual Studio 2005, in a new article titled Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0.

The article talks about:

- Installing necessary IIS 7.0 components on your Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 server to be used with Visual Studio 2005.

- Using the different Visual Studio web application project models with IIS 7.0 applications

- Connecting to remote IIS 7.0 applications

- Debugging local and remote IIS 7.0 applications

Visual Studio 2008 fixes a number of issues that affect Visual Studio when working with IIS 7.0, making it easier to go about your work. You can find the same level of detail on using VS 2008 in my other article,  Using Visual Studio 2008 with IIS 7.0.

Just for reference, here are some of the Visual Studio related posts I've done in the past that are all included (to various degrees) in the article:

Using Visual Studio 2005 with IIS 7.0
Using Visual Studio 2008 with IIS 7.0
Debugging IIS 7.0 Web applications remotely with Visual Studio 2008
Fix problems with Visual Studio F5 debugging of ASP.NET applications on IIS7 Vista

As always, if you hit any issues, let me know by leaving a comment. 

Thanks,

Mike

  

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Published 04 April 08 12:05 by Mike Volodarsky

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# MVolo's Blog said on April 4, 2008 12:18 PM:

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

# Chris said on April 14, 2008 3:16 PM:

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?

# Chris said on April 18, 2008 12:19 PM:
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
# Rupak Ganguly said on May 6, 2008 9:38 AM:
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
# ndutron said on August 11, 2008 6:12 AM:
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# ndutron said on August 11, 2008 6:14 AM:
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For the past 5 years, I was the core Program Manager for Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 7.0 products. I drove the design and development of the IIS 7.0 web server core, the IIS FastCGI support, the AppCmd command line tool, the ASP.NET Integrated pipeline, and other special projects around server security, performance, and scalability. Now, I am working on my own on cutting edge web server tech on top of the Microsoft IIS platform, and continue blogging about it here.

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For the past 5 years, I was the core server Program Manager for the IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 products at Microsoft.
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