Contents tagged with Compatibility

  • More Tips and Troubleshooting Help for Classic ASP Developers

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    Back in May of 2007 I posted a tips for Classic ASP developers post which has since received more than 50 comments and 85,000 views.  Robert McMurray just posted a set of fabulous tutorials for Classic ASP developers.  If you’re out there and having issues with Classic ASP and IIS7 and need some help, you’re not alone!  Read these articles to get help:

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  • How to Migrate from IIS 6 to IIS 7

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    With so many cool new capabilities in IIS7, and even more new features coming out all the time, it's no wonder you want to move to IIS7.  But you work for The Man, and everyone knows The Man wants ROI.  He can't just let you go willy-nilly and adopt every cool new technology that hits the street.  After all, He has a business to run.  And that business currently runs on IIS 6.  And he's paid you a lot of money (ok, not that much) to write the code, test the apps, deploy the servers, and keep those HTML pumping machines up and running 24x7x365.  And things are running well, right?  When was the last time you had to worry about metabase corruption?  Or been forced to run IISRESET?  Or been paged in the middle of the night with some glorious server 500 error and (of course) the developer who wrote the code is no where to be found?  

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

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    ASP.NET 2.0 (3.0 and 3.5) are easy to install with Windows Vista and Windows 2008 - just install the ASP.NET component located under IIS->Word Wide Web Services->Application Development Features.  You can find this set of components in Windows 2008 by clicking Start, and click Server Manager.  Expand the left-hand treeview in Server Manager and click Manage Roles, and then Web Server (IIS).  In the right-hand pane look for an option that says Add Role Services.  If you're on Windows Vista, click Start, click Control Panel, click Programs, and then Windows Features.  Look for the following tree of features under Internet Information Services (IIS):

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  • Tips for Classic ASP developers on IIS7

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    I was reminded the other day just how many classic ASP applications and developers there are out there!  The original ASP rocks, I remember experiencing it for the first time back in 1996/97 when it first came out with IIS3, and being amazed at how programmable it was compared to ColdFusion.  I built many an application using Classic ASP, and there will always be a soft spot in my heart for it. :)

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  • ColdFusion on IIS7

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    Back in the early nineties, one of the first scripting languages I learned to build web applications with was ColdFusion. It was a lot of fun! In some ways it is a great way to build your first web site since it is so simple, so much like HTML, yet very powerful. I'm sure ColdFusion has come a long way since I first used it.


    In June of 2005 I was invited to give a keynote at CFUnited, one of the premier ColdFusion conferences around. It was a fun, and early preview of ColdFusion running on early alpha builds of IIS7. I remember hacking the frankenstein build together with a few private fixes from the dev team, and some custom tweaks to the configuration system, and then holding my breath as I went on stage to show off how some of the new, cool capabilities of IIS7 we were dreaming could help ColdFusion developers. Luckily, all the demos worked and the talk went off without a hitch.

    Fast forward almost two years, and it is fun to see ColdFusion developers getting the product in Vista and writing about it. If you are looking for more information on how to get ColdFusion running on Vista and IIS7, check out this article: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=224AA by Heidi Bautista. It provides a great step-by-step overview of how to get rocking on IIS7.

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