Hi,

I have Visual Studio 2008 installed on my Vista x64 system. I have tried to open the ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool and keep recieving the error (in IE7) "Page cannot be found". The site i am trying to manage is just a blank ASP.NET site (although this doesnt work on other sites i have created). I then went to my 32bit version of Vista on my laptop and and WS2003 32bit virtual machine and the Web Site Admin tool loads in both without a problem.

Is this a know issue with Vista x64? Is there a know workaround?

Double check ASP.NET is enabled on IIS... it isn't by default (even if installed). 

Yes, IIS is installed with all the features

aussienick:

Yes, IIS is installed with all the features

Installed does not mean it is enabled, by default IIS only serves static content (think minimising security attack surface). 

I am pretty sure that it is enable, because if i create a site in IIS, then i can run that site without any problems. It's just when i try to run a site through VS 2008 using the ASP.NET Development Server. I cannot even run a simple site with a HTML page...can you give me the intructions for checking IIS is enabled properly for VS2008?

So IIS can run ASP.NET web applications: OK

aussienick:

It's just when i try to run a site through VS 2008 using the ASP.NET Development Server. I cannot even run a simple site with a HTML page...can you give me the intructions for checking IIS is enabled properly for VS2008?

Sorry, this is confusing. VS development server is not IIS,

You need to carefully confirm what the project settings in VS2008 are. Is it using the development server, or is it using IIS?

You do this by going into project settings and using the "Web" tab.

I've solved my problem. It relates to IPv6 in Vista x64. The solution is documented here - http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=893848

 Basically, i needed to change localhost to 127.0.0.1 in the address bar to make the sites work with ASP.NET Dev Server, so if you change the hosts file in c:\windows\system32\drivers and comment out the last line (::1     localhost) then it will work fine