Well,

When I try to compile a project of the book names "Beginning ASP .Net 2.0 with C#" I get the following error:

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: 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.

Source Error:


Line 34: -->
Line 35:
Line 36: <authentication mode="Forms">
Line 37: <forms loginUrl="Default.aspx"></forms>
Line 38: </authentication>

This happens to both Begin and End versions of the same file so I guess it's not my fault.

This happends with the webservices that are under chapter 12 of the book. Also on most project I can seem to access the databases and I get the following error message during browsing saying that the databse file is outside of the UNC share... Well I've looked into some solutions on the net, but the using the User Instance = true in the connection string didn't help at all!

Well, it seems that instead of learning I have to deal with errors...Well please help me because it's very frustrating when you want to study something and you get errors where you shouldn't.

I use VWD on Windows Vista Ultimate with ISS 6.

Please help!

Hi Andr3w,

I think you're coming up against two problems here, both stemming from using IIS rather than the web server built into VWD. If you're using Windows Vista, that's IIS7 too. Please check out how to set up the chapter samples using IIS 6 in the new appendix B I wrote which you can downlaod from my website at http://www.hmobius.com/downloads.aspx

While you're reading through that that the reason you get the parser error message you quote is becuase in IIS you've created a virtual directory that contains more than one web.config files (in different directories).

So for example in Chapter 12 (I'm assuming C# here), you should be creating a virtual directory on Begin\Chapter12\PDA or Begin\Chapter12\WroxUnited rather than Begin\Chapter12.

The same applies for the rest of the chapters.

Hope that helps.

Dan


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