Unable to run Visual Studio 2003 IDE on Windows 7

Question

My machine has windows 7 and when I try to create a project from VS2003 IDE that is Dotnet v1.1 I'm getting the following error message:

Visual Studio has detected that the specified web server is not running asp.net v1.1. you will be unable to run asp.net web application or services

I have searched Google and found some links for the same problem but I am still not able to create asp.net project v1.1 from VS2003 IDE.

Answer 1

Have you tried the following article:

• How to install ASP.NET 1.1 with IIS7 on Vista and Windows 2008

It says Windows Vista / Server 2008, however I am fairly certain that the same applied for Windows 7.

If you are having trouble understanding a specific part of the article then can you tell us which bit?

Answer 2

Visual Studio 2003's lifecycle ended in 2007,

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=Visual+Studio&Filter=FilterNO

At that time, Windows 7 was not yet released, and such products should not be ever tested on Windows 7 internally.

So my guess is that you should continue using it on an older Windows platform (XP or Windows Server 2003).