asp 1.1 and 2.0 on the same box

the compnay i work for, and a lot of guys on my team have added the .net 2.0 framework to their boxes recently.

a lot of people have come to ask me either why their 1.1 web projects stopped working or why they can't get a 2.0 asp project to work. 9/10 times the problems arises because the box is trying to run asp 1.1 and 2.0 under the same app pool.

so, the answer to the problem is to make sure that at the very minimum all your 1.1 stuff is running under one app pool, and all of your 2.0 stuff is running under a different pool.

a lot of people have asked me why this is, and honestly, i don't know yet (but i'm looking)... i'll post a follow up as soon as i find out.

but there's an important lesson to learn here, not just some obscure fact about asp:
solving this issues is actually easier than what one would think; all one has to do is look in the eventviewer, where the following error would be logged:

It is not possible to run two different versions of ASP.NET in the same IIS process. Please use the IIS Administration Tool to reconfigure your server
to run the application in a separate process.

it's been my experience that most devs don't look in the eventviewer, iis logs, etc, to find clues to their problems. as i've worked with BizTalk (and thus have been forced to look there) i've learned what great tools the eventviwer, the performance counters, and others are.