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no asp.net tab iis

I’ve been working with IIS and needed to change a website from v1 asp.net to v2, you can normally do this easily via the IIS console. Once when I tried to make this change for myself, I noticed that there was no asp.net tab, even though I was sure that it was there before, I couldn’t figure out what the problem was, but after a little investigation, I found that because I had VMWare installed on the machine that it conflicted with IIS a little, though it is fixable.
When VM Ware is installed, it modifies IIS settings as it’s configuration program is powered by an IIS virtual server, when making this change the VM Ware software disabled the asp.net tab, here is how to get it back:

  • Stop IIS
  • Open the IIS Metabase file (search for ‘MetaBase.xml’) in notepad or your favorite XML Editor
  • DELETE the line that reads ‘Enable32BitAppOnWin64=”TRUE”‘
  • Restart IIS

Now your asp.net tab should now be back!

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