After announcing Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) in Beta Bill Staples announcing another tool that makes installing some of the world’s most popular ASP.NET and PHP applications on IIS7 a snap!
The Microsoft Web Application Installer (Web AI) is a companion to Web PI, and provides a super easy way to download, install and configure many popular community and open source applications on IIS7. Available applications include DotNetNuke, Drupal, Gallery, Graffiti, osCommerce, PHPBB, and Wordpress, with more on the way. If you decide to try some of the PHP applications, you may want to check out this recent blog post on how to get PHP and MySQL installed as well.
Read the full announcement here http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/10/15/quick-install-of-the-world-s-most-popular-web-applications-on-iis7.aspx
While browsing Visual Studio Developer Center at MSDN if found this interesting article which identifies the known issues you will face when using Visual Studio 2003 on Windows Vista. While Visual Studio 2003 is not supported on Windows Vista.
Check the full issues list here