How can I get VS2005 to use IIS and not the built in web server?

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Gery D. Dorazio - 11 Nov 2005 20:04 GMT

I just installed VS 2005 standard edition and converted one of my web sites
from VS 2003. It compiled ok but when I try run it shows the browser window
and an application error saying to set custom errors to OFF because there is
a problem. It's not seeing anything...and I can't locate the assembly, etc..

I don't want to use the built in web server supplied by VS 2005 and I can't
find where it can be changed back to use IIS. I am using a workstation to
run VS 2005. It is connected in a LAN to a development server running
Windows 2003 Server. All the development sites are located on a shared drive
which is on the server. I use file access and not FrontPage. So how can I
make VS 2005 use IIS on my development server like before?

Can anyone point to some good docs/links on conversion of web
projects/solutions from VS 2003 to VS 2005? This is especially needed
because the operational environments are not the same and migrating is a
real problem right now.

Thanks,
Gery

Gery D. Dorazio
Development Engineer
EnQue Corp.
phone: 704.377.3327
email : gdorazio@enque.net
web : www.EnQue.net

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Gery D. Dorazio - 11 Nov 2005 21:33 GMT

Answer:

Go to IIS, select the web site and its properties. Then on the ASP.NET tab
select version 2.0...

Gery D. Dorazio Development Engineer EnQue Corp. phone: 704.377.3327 email :
gdorazio@enque.net web : www.EnQue.net

>I just installed VS 2005 standard edition and converted one of my web sites
>from VS 2003. It compiled ok but when I try run it shows the browser window
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> email : gdorazio@enque.net
> web : www.EnQue.net

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Ken Carter - 16 Nov 2005 22:48 GMT

I'm having simmilar issues and switching the site to 2.0 doesn't help. Still
get page can't be found issues. with http://localhost

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Gery D. Dorazio - 20 Nov 2005 05:46 GMT

Ken,

Another problem that may arrise is with the Application pool. If you are
running multiple sites and ANY of them have started to run before you run
your 2.0 site then a failure will also occur. This is because the
application pool loaded 1.1 (or 1.0) framework and then fails when a new
assembly (2.0) is required...the frameworks do not match. (Not sure why this
acts this way...) To correct this problem create a new application pool for
2.0 sites and only run your 2.0 sites from that application pool. IIS allows
you to simply create an application pool based on an existing one which is
what I did. Then I just specified 2.0 sites for one and left the 1.1 sites
in the original.

Best regards,
Gery

Gery D. Dorazio
Development Engineer
EnQue Corp.
phone: 704.377.3327
email : gdorazio@enque.net
web : www.EnQue.net

> I'm having simmilar issues and switching the site to 2.0 doesn't help.
> Still
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