Hi All,
I may be missing something, but I'm having major difficulty developing websites using IIS7, vista and visual studo 2005. In visual studio, I used to be able to click File > New > Website, Change the location to http, and it would create a virtual directory for me at eg: http://localhost/MyWebApp. Now when I do this, I get the error:
"Unable to create the Web 'http://localhost/MyWebApp'. The web server does not appear to have the FrontPage server extensions installed."
Now, I understand that the model is completely different in IIS7 compared to the version that was installed on my XP box, but does this mean that this method doesn't now work?
It would seem that my next option would be to make a local filesystem website, and create a new application in the iis7 admin tool to point to the local filesystem location, and change the website property in visual studio to "Use Custom Server pointing at http://localhost/MyWebApp"
When I run with debugging, I get an error saying it was "Unable to start debugging on the server...."
and it pretty much just goes downhill from here.
I don't want to rely on the asp.net debugging server that is built into visual studio, as I run msbuild and nunit to run unit tests on the code from outside visual studio. This relies on my webservices being in a particular location.
My installation of IIS7 has all the optional features (iis6 management etc... installed).
So: Question: Is it possible to develop web applications using IIS7 as the dev server? and is it able to debug within Visual Studio 2005?
Thanks for any help!
Chris.