IIS 5.1 and .Net 2.0?

[jsteph]

Hi all,
I'm having some tremendous issues trying to get Visual Studio 2005 to run on my windows XPPro box. When I create a test website using VS 2005, it puts everything in the localhost site, which is IIS 5.1. But nothing works.

I get the "Failed to access IIS Metabase" error. I've gone through all the aspnet_regiis commands I found out there, I've done all the re-setting of permissions, etc, but I still get that error.

However, I keep seeing in posts people refering to 'look in the ASP .Net tab' in the website properties. I don't have that tab in *any* of the websites that VS2005 is creating. I have seen that tab on the production box--but that's iis 6.0. So I'm wondering if the problem is that I'm running IIS 5.1, and how can I upgrade an XP box to IIS 6.0?

What's strange is that we have other developers who seem to have no problem doing development using VS 2005 on XP. Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks,
--Jim

 

[jshurst]

You can't upgrade XP to IIS 6.0, XP only works with 5.1.

As far as the version tab goes it's kind of hit or miss for me. I believe that you need multiple versions of the framework installed for it to show up. Even still I have had this tab not show up, which I believe is something messed up in the registry.

I did find a utility that let me switch versions for each site though. Try this tool:

http://www.denisbauer.com/NETTools/ASPNETVersionSwitcher.aspx

Also with VS2005 you don't need to develop against IIS if you don't want to. VS2005 comes with it's own web server (Cassini). In the properties of the site in VS2005 you can set this.

Hope this helps,

J