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Developing ASP.NET on Vista

I've been running Vista on my laptop for a couple of weeks and generally love it. Last week at the ASPInsiders meeting I made the rather unurprising discovery that Vista comes with IIS7, so was looking forward to playing with it more. As ever I've not had time, but have just hit my first IIS7 problem, which could affect many people developing ASP.NET applications on Vista - Vista and IIS7 does not have a local SMTP server. That means anyone using SMTP to deliver mail (we use it for automated error reports) will receive a "transport not present" error, no doubt spending a ton of time looking for the solution.

Christoph has suggested I try MailEnable, which will at least solve the immediate problem.

posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 3:23 PM Print
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 re: Developing ASP.NET on Vista
JP
12/13/2006 11:44 AM
I can't get VS 2005 working on Vista full stop... neither the built web server nor IIS will work. MS informed me that it is an issue with a security update for VS which I had applied, apparently. That'll teach me to upgrade.
 re: Developing ASP.NET on Vista
Dave
12/13/2006 11:50 AM
I'm still having a few problems, especially around debugging. I think the best thing to do is to just wait until all of the SPs have been done; too late for us though.
# re: Developing ASP.NET on Vista
richard costall
12/13/2006 9:33 PM
make sure you install the IIS6 compatilibity management tool (add/remove windows components). Also install windows authentication.

And in IIS 7.0 set you application to run in the 'Classic Pool'

thats how i got it working....
 re: Developing ASP.NET on Vista
JP
12/14/2006 10:46 AM
Tried all of the above Richard. I think it is because I upgraded from XP to Vista rather than starting from scratch.

ScottGu passed me on to a guy with a name with way too many Gs and Js in close proximity to each other, who then passed me on to someone on the IIS team... I await their response. If I don't hear anything soon, it'll be time for a clean install :(
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