This is an issue that I found recently that you may wish to pass on to your readers/students/peers that are upgrading to or puchasing VS .Net 2003.

Recently I had my work machine re-built and was fortunate to be able to install Visual Studio 2003. At the time however I didn't have access to IIS and as a consequence it didn't get installed until after Visual Studio 2003. I'm not exactly sure whether the installation order was what caused the issue but when I went to access my web projects I was told that the web server was running Asp.net 1.0 and would need to have asp.net 1.1 installed before it could work with or add any applications to it.

After a week of searching news groups, loosing 1.5 lbs. of body weight ( which I can afford to loose ) and .695 lbs. of head hair ( which I couldn't ) I finally found the answer as to how to install asp.net 1.1.

I had to run a app called "aspnet_regiis.exe". It can be found in C:\<OpSys Root>\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\. And can be installed not from the "Start/Run" dialog box but from a dos window, and not with a "-s" switch (That microsoft suggests...or maybe I did it wrong) that caused me all sorts of problems but as follows with an "-i" switch:

    C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

This installs asp.net 1.1 to all accessible webs. There are other associated switches that do other things. Click here to see a description file.