ASP.net metadata error

If you ever got one of these ugly errors: "Failed to access IIS metabase" this is what you need to do.

Moving from an old XP SP2 installation with VS 2008 (3.5), to a brand new virtual machine with XP SP3 and VS 2008. Right then, after a quick look at aspnet_regiis I found out that what you need to do is the following:

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis -u

and then

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis -i

Hope this works for you.