From chapter 10 onwards I'm finding it importsible to carry on with this book. All the files seems to have been completed already and nothing I do to them seems to work. This particular keeps coming up and I just dn't seem to be able to resolve it. I currently have visual Studion 2005, Visual Web Developer and Sql Server 2005 on my machine, I don't know if this issignificant. here is the erro:

Server Error in '/Chapter11' Application.
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Configuration 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 39: Set forms authentication and define the login page
Line 40: -->
Line 41: <authentication mode="Forms">
Line 42: <forms loginUrl="Default.aspx"></forms>
Line 43: </authentication>


Source File: C:\Websites\Begin\Chapter11\wroxunited\web.config Line: 41



Show Additional Configuration Errors:


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. (C:\Websites\Begin\Chapter11\wroxunited\web.config line 48)
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. (C:\Websites\Begin\Chapter11\wroxunited\web.config line 49)
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. (C:\Websites\Begin\Chapter11\wroxunited\web.config line 64)
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. (C:\Websites\Begin\Chapter11\wroxunited\web.config line 75)




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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.210

Please help

akuyali

Hi Akuyali,

This message appears usually because in VWD you've opened a folder as a website or in IIS created a virtual directory that contains more than one web.config files (in different directories).

So for example in Chapter 10 (I'm assuming C# here), you should be using VWD and choosing File > Open WebSite > File System > Begin\Chapter10\NewsUserControl rather than Begin\Chapter10 to work through the seciton on the NewsUser control. if you're using IIS then make sure the virtual directory you create to work with Chapter 10 again points only to the NewsUserControl directory rather than the Chapter10 directory.

The same applies for the rest of the chapters.

Hope that helps.

Dan

Dan Maharry
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Hi Dan,

thanks for your responce, it really it that easy, bit not explained anywhere in the book.I spent days trying to figure that out. Now I'm having another problem, this time with the database connection. From chapter one to nine I had VWD and Sql server express on my machine and every thing was fairly ok. Now I have VS, VWD and Sql Server 2005. I hd to uninstall the Sql express because it just was evening installing the 2005 properly. Now in chapter ten I just don't see any of the connectionStrings mensioned in the book. Do I need to attach the database file in each chapter folder to the my Sql server 2005?

Please let me have any solution you might come up with.

thank you

Akuyali

Hi Akuyali,

It's funny how there are always one or two things that we as authors just don't consider - that's one of them. Glad you have it working now anyway.

If you've switched from SQL Express to SQL Server, I'd suggest you have a look at the new Appendix B I wrote a few weeks ago - http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=59199 - which covers all the steps you'll need to get your examples running with a 'full' edition of SQL Server. It's a little more tricky but not too bad. Connection Strings and permissions on the database are the two things you'll need to get working.

Let me know how you get on. The appendix is written using the full WroxUnited site as an example, but if you just substitute in the code for the chapter you want to work with, that'll be fine.

Dan

Dan Maharry
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