Running VisualStudio 2003 on Windows 7 (YES. It's Feasible)

As a budget-challenged developer, I have the need to support legacy .net1.1 web applications while upgrading to windows 7. I read some posts about using XP VM, but thought that sounded too complicated. I eventually got it to work using following steps.

Barriers to Overcome:

• Setting up .Net1.1 framework on IIS7 (forgot the details..something like install dotnetfx1.1, install SP1 (very important, IIS7 process will crash unless this is installed/restart) for .net1.1, run aspnetregiis, check the ISAPI filters in IIS manager to make sure 1.1 is available, create new appPool for 1.1)
  
• Install a Vista/Win7 version of FrontPage (not sure if this helped or not, but I installed it)
  http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/134/installing-the-frontpage-server-extensions-on-iis-70/
• If running Subversion svn, modify to use _svn instead of .svn
  http://blog.dotsmart.net/2008/02/19/moving-on-from-svn_asp_dot_net_hack/
  
• For existing web projects, make sure applications exist in IIS matches that of .webinfo of the projects. i.e.
  
• If opening an existing solution containing web project fails, try removing the web project from the solution, then add it back.