IIS 6 Metabase and IIS 6 Configuration Compatibility

Getting this error when we are trying to open a .Net web application  in windows 7 .

 To access local IIS Web sites, we need to run Visual Studio in the context of an administrator account

•     In Windows 7 or Vista , click Start, click All Programs, and then locate Visual Studio.
•     Right-click Microsoft Visual Studio, and then click Run as administrator.

you need to install the "IIS Metabase and IIS6 Configuration Compatibility" feature under Internet Information Services-Web Management Tools-IIS 6 Management Capability to get the IIS6 ADSI provider installed.

First of all , you should have sufficient administrative access to turn or turn off windows features.

If you have the admin previliges , Please go to control panel in Windows and select Programs as shown in figure below.

In the settings page that opens, please select Turn windows features on or off .

Now go to Internet Information Services and then :

• Expand Web Management Tools, expand IIS 6 Management Compatibility, and then select the IIS 6 Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility check box.

• Expand World Wide Web Services, expand Application Development Features, and then select the ASP.NET check box.

• Expand World Wide Web Services, expand Security, and then select the Windows Authentication check box.

• To enable Visual Studio to debug applications, you must configure IIS 7.0 with the Windows Authentication module. By default, the module is not configured as part of IIS.

• Click OK to start the IIS and ASP.NET installation process.

•  If you have resolved the above two, and still get the third error, Your project has been configured to work with IIS. Either you dont have IIS 6 metabase installed or your virtual directory is not configured as a application.
  
   This is something very smallish but this is something that IIS 7 + has brought in. Well in IIS 6 its just a virtual directory setup thats enough to run a application. But in IIS 7 , you have to make it as a application as well.
  
  
   Right click on your virtual directory and click on Convert to Application and you should get rid of this.