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Asked: 2026-06-06T08:14:10+00:00

I have to support an application that was written in .NET 1.1 many years

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I have to support an application that was written in .NET 1.1 many years ago. I inherited this application. No, I cannot yet upgrade to a later version of .NET and yes I am aware that it is no longer supported in Windows 7. It is a has been a huge struggle and just when I get one issue sorted out then the next one pops up.

After a long struggle I managed to get it to run by working through this article:

http://blogs.iis.net/brian-murphy-booth/archive/2007/03/09/how-to-setup-asp-net-v1-1-visual-studio-net-2003-projects-on-iis7-vista.aspx

I also got the debugging to work. I am running Visual Studio 2003 as an administrator.

In the application it gets the connection string of the database from registry. I am still debugging/running it locally. But I am getting an access denied when trying to read the registry key. I had a look in the registry and the keys do exist.

It fails here and I’m not sure what the issue is:

RegistryKey regKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(Constants.DBRegKey);

Constants.DBRegKey has this value: "Software\\MyCompany\\MyProject\\Database"

Is this another Visual Studio 2003 and Windows 7 issue? Or does this happen in general with all Visual Studio versions?

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    I added the following in the web.config:

    <identity impersonate="true" userName="username" password="password"/>

    This works, I can read the value of a registry key. Not sure why this works but it works. Hope it is the last project that I have to support on .NET 1.1.

    Although I might mark this as the answer, please I would still like to here more opinions.

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