Windows Vista, Visual Studio 2008 and IIS7
After upgrading to Windows Vista, I’ve had many problems with running Visual Studio 2008 and IIS 7 on it. This blog post discusses some problems and how to solve them.
Vista seems to focus more on security than developer functionality. This means that you may have to install a lot of additional software to make IIS 7 and Visual Studio 2008 behave the way you expect.
For instance, IIS URL Rewriting now requires that you have the following installed:
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (a big recommendation if you use VS 2008)
- Web Management Tools (activated in the Control Panel)
- IIS Management Compatibility (activated in the Control Panel)
- IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility (activated in the Control Panel)
- IIS Management Console
- IIS Management Script and Tools
- IIS Management Service
- World Wide Web Services
- Application Development Features
- .NET Extensibility
- ASP.NET
- ISAPI Extensions
- ISAPI Filters
- Security
- Basic Authentication
- Windows Authentication
If you have the same problems as I have had with URL rewriting, I hope that installing and configuring the tools above helps you out.
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