Installing The Visual WebGui "wgx" Extension

Visual WebGui by default requires an extension registered in the IIS which is also called a script map. In order to install the “.wgx” extension you need to go to the IIS management console. Right click your working web site as shown in the following image and click the properties menu item.

 

After receiving this dialog select the home directory tab and click on the configuration button.

 

After clicking the configuration button you should receive this window which has all the mapped script maps.   Double click the “.aspx” extension map.

 

You should be seeing this dialog.

 

From the above dialog copy the executable path (For some reason this dialog does not support keyboard commands so you will have to use the right click options to copy the path). Notice that the executable path contains the .NET framework version. You should adjust it to the framework you are planning to use. You can use both but you have to manually set the extension to a different value for different web directories.

Return to the first dialog and click the add button. Paste the executable path in and set the extension to be “.wgx”. Enter the verbs as appear in this dialog or change the radio buttons to the all verbs option. It is very important that you leave the “Check that file exists” unchecked as Visual WebGui does not use actual pages. Click OK on all the opened dialogs and now you have successfully installed the “.wgx” extension.