Opening a Web Project

[Jennifer]

A long while back I made an ASP.Net application with VB.Net as the
code behind. It's been in MS Source Safe. I now have a new computer
and got the latest version downloaded from Source Safe on my new
computer. I'm trying open the project, which does not look to have an
..sln file associated with it. I've been trying to open the .vbproj
file. I get an error message saying: "The project you are trying to
open is a web project. You need to open it by specifying its URL
path." Okay, that's all well and good....but I don't know how to do
that or what that means exactly. Would someone please explain (in
detail) how to open up this project to this very novice programmer?

Thanks,
Jennifer

 

[Greg Burns]

That is a nasty error I hate seeing. I get the samething using SourceGear
Vault. Here is something to try.

Go into IIS and create a new virtual directory with the same name as the
original, point it to your project folder.
OR if not familiar with IIS, then just right-click on project folder in
windows explorer->properties->web sharing tab and share it. Make the alias
the same name as original web app name.

Find this folder (if it exists, it may not if this is new machine)
C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\VSWebCache\<computer name?>\<web
app name>
and delete it

Try again.

BTW: usually the .sln file get place in your My Documents\Visual Studio
Projects\<web app name> folder, while the actually web app files (.aspx,
..vb, etc) gets created in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\<web app name> folder.

Good luck!
Greg