Hello,

I just recieved the book today and downloaded the files for the TBH.
When trying to run the web site I get an error: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS. When double clicking the error message, it brings me to the web.config file at location:

<authentication mode="Forms">
   <forms cookieless="AutoDetect" loginUrl="~/AccessDenied.aspx" name="TBHFORMAUTH"/>
</authentication>

Can anyone help me to correct this error? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Karl

Are you trying to open this project with VS 2003? It requires VS 2005.

We no longer use Virtual Directories in 2005 for development projects (in most cases, anyway).

Eric

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

To answer your question, I'am using visual studio 2005 to open the
project

Regards

Karl

Can you make a simple web page using VS 2005 on your computer and run it? Does it use the integrated webserver (you should see it in your icon tray, and it gives a random-looking port number in the URL)?

This application wasn't set up to use IIS "as is". If you use the supplied solution it loads the project only from the filesystem, and displays with the integrated web server.

I thought of something else you can try - turn off your IIS web server completely, and then try to run TBH by pressing F5.

If you're not familiar with IIS, it's here: Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Internet Information Services. Then drill down until you find "Default Web Site". Right click on it and select Stop.

Eric

Hi,

I was thinking the same thing to turn off IIS but I first decided to delete the TBH folder and start over by extracting the files form the zip file and double clicking the solution file. Know I'am able to run the TBH site.

Thank you for your suggestions.

Regards

Karl

If you are trying to access the website using localhost (which is probable if you double click any .aspx file) then you need to have a virtual directory on IIS. Visual Studio 2005 doesn't require IIS to have a virtual directory within the studio environment.