On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:37:18 -0400, DArnold <>
wrote:
>Snuff wrote:
>> Actually, the enable or disablefeatures section of the programs bit in
>> Control Panel seems not to do anything apart from disable features.
>
>I am using Ultimate, I have no problems using IIS7.
>
>>
>> I don't know if this is a problem that anyone else has had but from
>> googling I see that there is stuff on the message I get to the effect
>> that an error has occurred and not all of the features have installed
>> properly. For not all, read none.
>
>If you have done an upgrade from XP or some other NT based O/S, then you
>might have some problems. Of if Vista came pre-installed, then again,
>you might have some problems.
>
>
>>
>> It's not a huge problem but I wanted to install IIS.
>
>I suggest that you boot of the install CD/DVD, format the HD a lay down
>Vista fresh.
>
>>
>> From the command line, I managed to get basic IIS installed but it
>> does not do anything and there is no sign of it in services. ASP.NET
>> completes installation from the command line with pkgmgr and gives me
>> an error level of 0 but from Control Panel - Programs - Enable/Disable
>> etc it is similarly shown as not installed.
>
>I didn't have a problem here.
>
>>
>> It's not that I need it enough to format, reinstall and hope
>> but it would be useful as I am trying teach myself a bit of web
>> application programming and the only option at the moment is to upload
>> and try to view experiments from the internet or install another
>> server like apache and fiddle around to get support for asp.net and
>> hope that MS standards in the visual web developer program tie up with
>> everyone else's standards in apache etc. Certainly, MySQL doesn't
>> understand MSSQL without some interference so IIS looked like the
>> right way to go.
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/ex.../learningpath/
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>.Net Visual Studio 2005 Express is free to download.
>
>MS SQL Server 2005 Express is free to down load and distribute.
>>
>> Has anyone else had similar problems and managed to cure them?
>
>Yeah they have, they also said they were formatting the HD, laying down
>the O/S and IIS7 fresh.
Thanks for the help on that question. I appreciate it. On the basis
that I usually reinstall at least once a year (or at least used to in
Windows XP) to clear out the junk and freshen things up, maybe I'll
leave it for now...or just wait for the system to fall over and do it
then.
I knew about .NET visual studio and have it but thanks for the tip. I
like the Visual Web Designer and the SQL Express with Visual Studio
stuff. It really is a quality bit of kit. I have given up my Linux
pretensions. I just want stuff to work and the world is a microsoft
place so I am not even going to try to change it.
Apache and MySQL are very good though and if you throw PHP into the
mix you can do lots of intersting stuff!
Snuff