Everybody,

I've tried to run the simplest page punctual.aspx (Chapter 1) on IIS 5.1 installed on my XP station as follows:
http://localhost/begaspnet11/ch01/punctual.aspx
where begaspnet11 is a virtual directory
However, I get the error: "Expected ';'" at line 3.

The same page runs fine via the Web Matrix server as follows:
http://localhost:8080/punctual.aspx

Could you please help understand the reason of the IIS failure?

This is my response to myself.

The problem was that IIS was not running ASP.NET 1.1. The fix was launching the ASP.NET utility called aspnet_regiis.exe that configured ASP.NET on IIS.