Working with Web Developement

[Guest]

I installed VB.Net 2003 Professional on my Vista C1 build 5728 without any
issues except that my Web Development Tools was greyed out. When I try to
create an ASP Net Web App I get a message that Visual Studio.NET has
dectected that the Web Server is running ASP.NET 1.0. I have installed .NET
1.1 SP1 and my Application Pools show ASP.NET 1.1.
I am obviously missing a component for VS Development but don't know how to
fix this. Can someone please help me out with this?

 

[Guest]

VS2003 needs the Frontpage Extensions (FPE2002) to create and debug ASP.NET
projects.

Unfortunately:
1. FPE2002 are not anymore officially available for download (support expired)
2. IIS7 does not have nor does it support FPE2002
3. Microsoft somewhere told, that they will provide a similar technology in
IIS7 with windows Server "Longhorn". No mention about Vista.

At the moment it looks like, Vista is no option to develop ASP.NET with
VS2003. Stay with Windows XP or migrate to VS2005.

TomTom

 

[Guest]

Tom,

Thanks for the reply. Dosen't VS2003 come with FPE2002 or what is installed
if you select web developement. This option is greyed out during the install
so can you even install FPE2002 on IIS7?

Fortunatley, I still have my XP environment but wanted to test out
development on Vista.

 

[Guest]

Normally under WinXP, before you can install VS2003, you have to install IIS6
and Frontpage Server Extensions 2002 (FPSE2002).

Under Vista, you have only IIS7. There are no FPSE and you can't install any
downloaded FPSE2002 on IIS7. It simply does not work.

So Microsoft has to develope a alternative or replacement for FPSE so that
ASPNET development with VS2003 under Vista is working.

This "replacement" does not exist in the current builds of Vista nor is it
officially announced for future Vista builds.

TomTom

 

[Guest]

Normally under WinXP, before you can install VS2003, you have to install IIS6
and Frontpage Server Extensions 2002 (FPSE2002).

Under Vista, you have only IIS7. There are no FPSE and you can't install any
downloaded FPSE2002 on IIS7. It simply does not work.

So Microsoft has to develope a alternative or replacement for FPSE so that
ASPNET development with VS2003 under Vista is working.

This "replacement" does not exist in the current builds of Vista nor is it
officially announced for future Vista builds.

TomTom

 

[Guest]

Tom,

Thanks for the info! So, will VS2005 work under current release of Vista?

 

[Guest]

Sorry I don't know since I do not use VS2005. My company is still developing
ASP.NET under VS2003 until mid or end 2007. So for me it's important, that
Microsoft has a replacement in Vista for the FPSE2002 or else Vista is a no
go in our company until end 2007 when we change to VS2005 or VS2007.

 

[Guest]

Sorry I don't know since I do not use VS2005. My company is still developing
ASP.NET under VS2003 until mid or end 2007. So for me it's important, that
Microsoft has a replacement in Vista for the FPSE2002 or else Vista is a no
go in our company until end 2007 when we change to VS2005 or VS2007.

 

[Guest]

Sorry I don't know since I do not use VS2005. My company is still developing
ASP.NET under VS2003 until mid or end 2007. So for me it's important, that
Microsoft has a replacement in Vista for the FPSE2002 or else Vista is a no
go in our company until end 2007 when we change to VS2005 or VS2007.

 

[Guest]

I like your attitude since I really don't want to update to VS2005 at this
time. It really upsets me when we are "forced" to updgrade because of
"improvements" in the OS.

Again, thanks alot for your response as it has helped me out.