Active Server Pages Appear Blank in the Web Browser (224418)

We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx

SYMPTOMS

When you create a Web site or modify an existing Web site with Visual Studio or Visual InterDev, all ASP pages for that Web site may stop working or display only blank content in the Web browser.

ASP pages may work properly in other Web sites or other Web applications.

All HTML files continue to work in all Web sites.

RESOLUTION

Edit the Global.asa for the Web site experiencing the problem and look for the following or similar metadata tags:

<!--METADATA TYPE="TypeLib" NAME="Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.0 Library" UUID="{00000200-0000-0010-8000-00AA006D2EA4}" VERSION="2.0"-->
<!--METADATA TYPE="TypeLib" NAME="Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects Recordset 2.0 Library" UUID="{00000300-0000-0010-8000-00AA006D2EA4}" VERSION="2.0"-->
<!--METADATA TYPE="TypeLib" NAME="Microsoft Active Server Pages Object Library" UUID="{D97A6DA0-A85C-11CF-83AE-00A0C90C2BD8}" VERSION="2.0"-->

To determine whether you are experiencing this problem, remove any of the above tags if they are present, as well as any additional metadata tags from the Global.asa, and then try browsing ASP pages.

This problem is caused by having an older version of Windows Scripting environment installed on the WWW server.

Visual Studio and Visual InterDev assume a newer version is present when creating or managing Web sites and may create metadata tags specific to these newer versions of the scripting environment.

To resolve this issue please obtain the latest version of the Windows Scripting environment at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ and download the latest version for your platform.

WORKAROUND