Unable to browse IIS7 from Visual Studio 2008 in Vista

xfx — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:34:01 GMT

I'm moving to Windows Vista (using Vista Business SP1) and so far everything has worked just fine until I tried to continue working on a "ASP.NET" project I had previously started on my old Windows XP machine.

Anyway, the first thing I tried was to click "File->Open Web Site->Local IIS" and I received a message that I needed to install several components before I could access IIS.

So I installed the missing components, started Visual Studio 2008 SP1 as Administrator and now I see the same message but no missing components are listed!

Here's the exact message I see:

    Local Internet Information Server

    To access local IIS Web sites, you must install the following IIS components:

    In addition, you must run Visual Studio in the context of an administrator account.

    For more information, press F1.

Here's a link to see a screenshot of the dialog:
http://software.xfx.net/vs2008_iis7_vista_error.jpg

I think I have followed every single workaround/solution I found on the Internet until I had to do a System Restore as it looks I ended corrupting IIS. After the System Restore everything is back to normal: VS2008 works just fine, IIS works just fine but I cannot connect to IIS from VS20008

Oh, one additional piece of information:
At some point I found out that the IIS Admin Service (IISADMIN) was not running due to a 0x8009000F error.

After doing some research it looks like this error is caused by the MachineKeys folder not having the appropriate permissions (both the Administrator and System accounts should have full rights on this folder and child items).

Once the permissions were corrected the service was able to start... although I keep receiving the same error message from VS2008

Here's a link to an article that explains how to overcome all these issues:
http://developershelf.blogspot.com/2008/05/problem-loading-iis7-hosted-wap.html

Any help in getting VS2008 to access the local IIS will be GREATLY appreciated.

FTP on IIS7

easytec — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:39:03 GMT

How do I get FTP to work on IIS7, it wasn't listed and the Windows Vista Home Premium package said it was included, I can't install as it isn't in the checkable list box (add and remove Windows' features).

How do I get it? Where do I download it? IIS7 said it includes FTP, what is FTP7, apparently it's just an upgrade from the Windows Server 2008 Beta (Codename 'Longhorn'), which isn't included in Windows Vista Home Premium.

I want the FTP server, or should I assign the port with third party software (I need access passwords and usernames).

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