Hi Tim,
First of all, I would like to confirm my understanding of your issue. From
your description, I understand that when you open an ASP.NET project in
VS.NET 2003, the IDE hangs and a "Initializing offline cache" message
shows. If there is any misunderstanding, please feel free to let me know.
Based on my research, many people in the community has encountered this
error. I have found this is a known issue. You can try the following steps
to see if it fixed the problem.
1. Try an IISReset and see if that fixes it.
2. Check the system event log in Computer Management. In some case, after
we did an IISReset, a warning message was logged from W3SVC "The server
was unable to add the virtual root '/Mydvlp_offline' for the directory
'C:\Documents and Settings\userid\VSWebCache\mydvlp' due to the following
error: The system cannot find the file specified. The data is the error
code." In this case, this was an old webcache location and not what VS.NET
was set to; however, IIS must have been trying to use this old cache
location.
3. Delete the folders under the specified webcache directory (don't worry,
they will be recreated as needed).
4. Do an IISReset.
HTH.
Kevin Yu
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