Setting Up Internet Information Server 5.0

Before we start building sample applications, we must have IIS installed and running If you have not set up the IIS on your machine, you should do so now. To set up IIS on a Windows NT 4.0 machine, you must download (or obtain on CD-ROM from MSDN or another source) the Options Pack. This contains IIS 4.0, but when you install the components upgrade from Visual Studio it will include IIS 5.0 with Windows 2000 and XP Pro; IIS is installed by default. If for some reason it is not (such as an OEM installation that did not install it), you can install it by going into control panel, add/remove programs, and then clicking the Windows Components button in the installer applet.

Once you have installed IIS, ...

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