Creating VB/ASP.NET applications on WinXP?

[Andrew Parsons]

I don't get it, so I hope someone can help me understand what I'm doing wrong.

I did a fresh install of Windows XP RC1 on my test machine. It connects to
the web fine, and it was "activated".

I then did an install of Visual Studio.NET Beta 2. When I did this, it detected
that I didn't have IIS configured correctly, nor FrontPage extensions. I
followed the documentation and set both of these up and was then able to
install VS.NET successfully.

I can create new VB.NET apps fine except for ASP.NET ones.

Whenever I try and create an ASP.NET application it complains about not being
able to create \\localhost\...\WebApplication1.

It gives me a couple of other options to try like the explicit local address
"C:\inet...\...\WebApplication1" or whatever it is, but all of them get rejected.

I'm figuring it's an obvious security issue, but having never dealt with
this side of application development before, I have NO idea what to do.

Can anyone help me?

[pnsm]

All i can say is, i had the same experience in a Win2000/.Net beta 1 configuration.
The solution i found (probably not the best one) was to format the machine,
install windows, then IIS and finally VS.NET. This worked, but it 's a bit
radical.


"Andrew Parsons" <andrewparsonsvb@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I don't get it, so I hope someone can help me understand what I'm doing
wrong.
>
>I did a fresh install of Windows XP RC1 on my test machine. It connects
to
>the web fine, and it was "activated".
>
>I then did an install of Visual Studio.NET Beta 2. When I did this, it detected
>that I didn't have IIS configured correctly, nor FrontPage extensions. I
>followed the documentation and set both of these up and was then able to
>install VS.NET successfully.
>
>I can create new VB.NET apps fine except for ASP.NET ones.
>
>Whenever I try and create an ASP.NET application it complains about not
being
>able to create \\localhost\...\WebApplication1.
>
>It gives me a couple of other options to try like the explicit local address
>"C:\inet...\...\WebApplication1" or whatever it is, but all of them get
rejected.
>
>I'm figuring it's an obvious security issue, but having never dealt with
>this side of application development before, I have NO idea what to do.

>
>Can anyone help me?