New web service in VB.NET 2003 std

[Chris Fellows]

When I try and create a new web service project in VB.NET 2003 Standard I
get the error "VS .NET cannot create or open the application. The likeliest
problem is that required components are not installed on the local Web
server. Run VS.NET setup and add the Web Development component".

Can someone help me out please? The .NET setup doesn't show any 'Web
Development' component. I'm running Vista Home Premium and VB.NET SP1. In
Control Panel/Progs & Features I've enabled all feature for IIS. IIS
Manager starts up OK too.

 

[RobinS]

VB.Net 2003 is not supported on Windows Vista.

Robin S.

 

[William LaMartin]

So I am going to have to keep at least one computer running XP to be able to
update those websites that still have VS2003 created pages. I really don't
want to have to migrate all the sites I did with VS2003 to VS2005.

By the way, when I run the Microsoft Vista update advisor, it makes no
mention of there being a problem with VS 2003.

It would be nice if Microsoft would figure a way to let VS 2003 run on
Vista.

 

[RobinS]

I don't blame you. I'm not sure when Microsoft made that decision. Maybe at
the beginning, they were going to support VS2003, but then didn't. They did
make sure VB6 would work, but probably hope people upgrade their VS2003
apps to VS2005. After all, you can't do .Net 3.0 with VS2003, and that's
the direction in which they want to herd people now.

You *can*, however, *run* an application developed in VS2003 *on* a Vista
machine. So at least that should work, cold comfort being better than none.

I think there may be someone who got VS2003 to work on Vista, but since I
haven't tried it, I can't attest to it. Maybe on Monday when the newsgroup
is more active, someone will pipe up with a different solution for you.

Robin S.
Ts'i mahnu uterna ot twan ot geifur hingts uto.
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[aaron.kempf]

it would be nice if ms just threw away .net and brought back vb6

I mean; it has better OS support than anything else on the market

 

[aaron.kempf]

M$ continously craps on developers


sorry; move to Dreamweaver, PHP and mySql