Visual Studio 2003 Prerequisites on Windows 7

Question

I am trying to install Visual Studio 2003 on Windows 7 . We have a web app here that was written in VS2003 that I need to support.

When the installation starts it does a prerequisites check and tells me that is needs:

• IIS to be installed and
• Frontpage server extensions

I know for a fact that IIS is installed. But why would it be asking me to install it? Am I missing something here?

And what about Frontpage server extensions? Do I just ignore this? If not where do I get this from?

When I go to programs and features select turn widowns features on and off I have the following selected:

Internet Information Services -> Web Management Tools -> IIS6 Management Compatibility:

• IIS 6 Management Console
• IIS 6 Scripting Tools
• IIS 6 WMI Compatibility
• IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility

Answer 1

probably VS is trying to detect IIS 6.0, Windows 7 comes with IIS 7 / 7.5 if you want to configure IIS 7 for classic ASP look at this: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/43132/How-to-Setup-IIS-6-0-on-Windows-7-to-Allow-Classic however look at the discussion regarding installing IIS 6: Is it possible to install IIS 6 on a windows 7 machine?

don't try to install frontpage extensions on IIs 7, look a this post : http://forums.iis.net/p/1160144/1913961.aspx

hope it helps,