According to the Murach VB.NET book, you have to have installed IIS - before you install both Framework and Visual Studio 2003.Is this still the case?Or is there some quick fix that will allow me ...

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.

Likewise, if you're going to do debugging of your utilities from inside Visual Studio, you'll need to be running Visual Studio with Administrator access. The sample code included in this article ...