Using IIS6 as ASP.NET development host in Visual Studio 2008 on Win7

Question

I've inherited a ASP.NET 1.1 webapp that runs in production on win2k3 under IIS6. I'd like to closely match this environment during development and testing. For reasons I won't go into, using Cassini/VS Development Server isn't ideal so I'm trying to set up my Visual Studio environment to use IIS6. I do my development on VS 2008 on Win7, and from what I can tell, IIS6 is only supported on Win2k3 and XP Pro x64. Am I stuck using Win7's built-in IIS7?

Answer 1

You will have to use IIS7 but if it is run in classic mode then it will closely emulate the IIS6 way of working. For the differences I wouldn't bother with the overhead of a VM, there aren't enough incompatibilities that I know of to warrant it.