Installing r.a.d.controls on Vista and IIS7
Posted by: the telerik blogs,
on 17 Oct 2006 |
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Vista must be getting popular these days! We've been hit with some support requests that basically sounded like "Why don't your installers create virtual folders on IIS7 under Vista?". Our installers run fine and copy all needed files, but our virtual directory creation custom task seems to have some problems with IIS7. We are yet to throw in some efforts and research the issue in greater detail, but I assume we just have to look into the new "official" way to create virtual folders and just add support for it.
Until that time, you can use the IIS6 compatibility mode. This mode enables the old metabase API support that will be used by our custom action. You will need to enable that compatibility mode in order to be able to use VS2005 with IIS anyway, so you might find ScottGu's blog post on the subject helpful.
Basically the idea is simple: enable the IIS6 compatibility mode from your "Windows Features" control panel, and run our .EXE installer as Administrator. You can now enjoy our controls on Vista and help us with invaluable feedback on improving our installers' Vista support.