How to create an ISAPI Filter in VS 2005/2008

Question

In VS 6.0 we had a option for selecting a project type as MFC ISAPI Extension Dll under VC++ and then configuring it as a Filter object. How do we achieve this in VS 2005/2008?

Answer 1

The ISAPI project template is removed in 2005 and class library support is removed in 2008.

You can create the project in VC6 then upgrade the project to 2005, but this method won't work in 2008 unless you copy the 2005 ISAPI MFC files to 2008.

Note ISAPI filter is being deprecated . IIS7 has ISAPI Filter support but not as a default install option.