Windows XP 64-bit with IIS 6 and ASP.NET 2.0 Websites

I had a hard time getting IIS 6 on my newly reformatted Windows XP Professional 64-bit to serve up ASP.NET applications. IIS was not installed by default, so I installed it through the normal control panel operations. Then I ran aspnet_regiis -ir, and figured that was that. When I added a virtual directory on the default site, I assigned the document root to where my ASP.NET website was located. When I went to the page however, it gave me a 404.

After searching around the internet for a while, I ran across a blog post at ILoggable about the issue. You have to go into IIS Manager and enable ASP.NET v2.0 as a Web Service Extension. After that, everything worked fine!