Enabling VS2005 to talk to IIS7

After much time and investigation I have managed to get VS2005 to “talk” to IIS7 on Vista RC1. The trick? Well, the problem is that VS2005 unfortunately, does not know the new lingo and thus you must configure IIS7 to provide this ability or backwards compatibility. I do believe that SP1 for VS2005 will correct this problem.

Right, within “Windows Features“ or Turn Windows Features on or off dialog ( see below screen shot )

Expand IIS, Web Management Tools and select IIS6 Management Capability. This will now allow VS2005 to talk with IIS.