A few people have pinged me over the last week asking about how to use VS 2005 with an IIS 7.0 web-site on Windows Vista. Specifically, they've run into an issue where they see a dialog message asking them to install the FrontPage Server Extensions, or they get a "You must be a member of the administrators group" message when they try to connect (see dialog below): Bradley has published a nice blog post that describes detailed steps on how to enable VS 2005 to connect to IIS 7.0. To quickly summarize you need to follow the below two steps to enable it: 1) You need to make sure that you have the the optional "IIS 6 Management Compatibility" option installed within IIS7. This installs an API for the new configuration system that is compatible...(read more)

Canoo announced the release of ULC XML, a tool that allows developers to create UltraLightClient user interfaces from XML files. ULC XML is a free and open-source tool for Canoo?s Java RIA library. It is available for download at the ULC XML project site.

Microsoft Windows Vista RC1 is now available to the public (view the press release), and many Visual Studio 2005 web developers are eager to start building ASP.NET 2.0 applications running under Internet Information Services 7.0, which is included with the Vista operating system. To build web apps under this environment, there are just a few steps you need to perform: 1. First, you need to install the IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 Windows components, since they are not automatically installed by default. Because Visual Studio 2005 uses the IIS metabase APIs to create and configure applications in IIS, you must also install a metabase compatibility component for IIS 7.0. To do this, use the “Programs and Features” control panel in Vista, following...(read more)

I happened across a reference to the JFGI site today. Brilliant.

JFGI, it's the new RTFM. Oh, and the JFGI mail archive has some real gems in it too.

(Author's Note: if you don't know what JFGI or RTFM means, please visit the JFGI site and follow the instructions. You're welcome.)

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