VWD 2008 Express.  Windows Server 2003 Standard.  When I look under the Web Service Extensions under IIS I see ASP.NET v1.1.4322 and ASP.NET v2.0.50727.  What do I need to install on my server to support all the features of VWD 2008 Express?  Where can I find this component to install it?  Thanks for the help.

Hi,

in IIS you have "ASP.NET v2.0.50727" when you're using ASP.NET 3.5 (ASP.NET 2.0 is updated only to SP1 from v2 to 3.5, basically keeping the runtime almost as the same). E.g just make sure you have .NET Framework 3.5 installed (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en) and that's it.

For the reference see: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToSetAnIISApplicationOrAppPoolToUseASPNET35RatherThan20.aspx

Are you saying that all I need to do is download and install ".NET Framework 3.5" on my server?

Yes, and if you have installed WVD2008 on your server :-), you probably have the Framework already. But yes, essentially installing Framework 3.5 is enough (since you already have v2 on your server).

See the link I posted, it has good explanation on the Framework's versioning, which is confusing. Point is that in ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET itself hasn't upgraded that much so it is basically still v2.0 SP1.