I have been doing all the exercises up until Ch. 8 Adding User Controls to a Content or Master Page. When I tried to launch it in the browser, it is trying to find the localhost on the internet instead of locally. The address is now http://www.localhost.com:3199/Default.aspx instead of a address without the www. and .com. As far as I know I haven't changed any thing. Similar thing happens when I try to launch a page from the Demos folder which has unrelated code?

Hi there,

Check out Website | Start Options in VWD. What do you have in the Start action and Server sections?

Imar


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Hi Imar,
Thanks for the quick reply. Under Start Options, I have:
Start action = Use current page
Server = Use default Web server

The current error in Firefox reads:
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again.

In IE, I get a correct looking localhost URL but the error say
IE cannot display the webpage.

When I look at the ASP.NET Development server in the system tray
should I see the virtual path as: /

I was thinking about uninstalling VWD and reinstalling? Will this reconfigure the local servers?

Thanks again,
Keith

Yeah, you could try reinstalling and see if that helps.

What happens if you click the link on the Development Web Server (which sits in the tray). Do you get the correct page then?

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
http://Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 : in C# and VB, ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Dreamweaver MX 2004
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Hi,
Imar,
Clicking on the Dev Web Server only open an info box. I did a little more investigation and found that I could open the default.aspx file from the source code provide in the download so it is not a system wide setting but an error I coded. I kind of remember setting a property or something to an "/" or "\" or changing ~ to / or something in a line of code. If all else fails, can I replace my default.aspx file with the Ch. 7 (one ch. earlier) default.aspx and start anew on ch 8 or do I need to copy more files with it?
Thanks again,
Keith

Difficult for me to tell, as I don't know what else you changed. Just try copying Default.aspx and see if it fixes the problem. If it does, compare you version with mine to see what the problem is. Otherwise, try copying more files to see if that help.

Cheers,

Imar