Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project

November 20, 2006

I’ve always wished that MS would have left the web app project in vs 2005. Found this while searching for a way to integrate MSBuild with VS 2005. More info is available HERE.

Basically you go
HERE
and install the prerequiste. Then you go HERE and click the “Download Now” link and install that.

Then start VS 2005 and when you go to create a new project… “Web Applicaton Project” will be a new choice. :)

I also found a tutorial on how to migrate an existing VS 2005 Website to a Web Application Project <Link>


Configuring Windows 2003 Firewall and IIS 6 for pasv ftp port range.

November 20, 2006

This has always been a pain for me to find online whenever I’m using the builtin Win 2k3 firewall and the builtin FTP server for IIS6. Almost every FTP client needs to run behind a firewall and use pasv FTP to connect to a server. So I thought I would post something for I can find later.

Here is a batch file (pasv.bat.txt) to do the work:


Echo OFF
ECHO ADDING PORT RANGE TO IIS
C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs set /MSFTPSVC/PassivePortRange “5500-5550″

ECHO OPENING FIREWALL PORTS
FOR /L %%I IN (5500,1,5550) DO NETSH FIREWALL ADD PORTOPENING TCP %%I FTPPort%%I
iisreset
ECHO FINISHED
Pause