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discomoon3 · January 29th, 2010, 06:40 PM

hello,
I just tried to do the first hello world exersice. I triple checked the code and enabled the intranet settings but when IE opens it just shows the original code that I typed. Is there something else I need to do with IE 8?
thanks!

Imar · January 29th, 2010, 07:17 PM

Hi there,

What's the exact address of the page in the address bar of the browser? And how did you open the file in your browser?

Imar

discomoon3 · January 29th, 2010, 07:29 PM

The address is http://localhost:49770/WebSite3/Default.aspx
I just pressed debug and this page opened up with the same code.

When I pressed debug a message appears

discomoon3 · January 29th, 2010, 07:31 PM

The address is http://localhost:49770/WebSite3/Default.aspx
I just pressed debug and this page opened up with the same code.

When I pressed debug a message appears

The page cannot be run in debug mode because debugging in not enabled in the Webconfig file. What would you like to do?

-modify the webconfig file to allow debugging?

or

-run without debugging

I chose option 1 and that's what happened

Imar · January 30th, 2010, 06:00 AM

You shouldn't press Debug at this stage yet, but simply press Ctrl+F5 to start without debugging. However, both methods should work fine.

Can you post the code for the page and its Code Behind?

Imar

discomoon3 · January 30th, 2010, 10:02 PM

Here's the code. Thanks for your help! It still doesn't work when I press ctrl F5
Thanks

<h1>Hello World</h1>
<p>Welcome to Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 on <%= DateTime.Now.ToString ( ) %></p>

<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>

<h1>Hello World<<span lang="en-us"> /</span>h1><br />
<p>Welcome to Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 on <span lang="en-us"> </span><%=
DateTime.Now.ToString<span lang="en-us"> </span>( ) <span lang="en-us"> </span>%></p></div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Imar · January 31st, 2010, 05:15 AM

There are two things wrong with this code:

1.

Code:

<h1>Hello World</h1>
<p>Welcome to Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 on  <%= DateTime.Now.ToString ( )  %></p>

This part shouldn't be *above* the page directive, but between the <form> and <div> tags

2.

Code:

 
&lt;h1&gt;Hello World&lt;<span lang="en-us"> /</span>h1&gt;<br />
&lt;p&gt;Welcome to Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 on <span lang="en-us">&nbsp;</span>&lt;%= 
DateTime.Now.ToString<span lang="en-us"> </span>( ) <span lang="en-us">&nbsp;</span>%&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div>

You typed this in *Design View* so your HTML gets encoded. Take another look at the instructions to see how you should enter this in Markup View, or use the tools like the formatting toolbar.

To fix it: move the correct HTML above the <%@ Page directive to within the <div> tags, and remove whatever you currently have in those <div> tags....

You should end up with something like this:

Code:

<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
  <h1>Hello World</h1>
  <p>Welcome to Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 on  <%= DateTime.Now.ToString ( )  %></p>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Hope this helps,

Imar

discomoon3 · January 31st, 2010, 01:45 PM

thanks Imar!

Imar · January 31st, 2010, 03:30 PM

Does it work now? What was the issue exactly?

Imar

discomoon3 · January 31st, 2010, 04:41 PM

you were right i was in the wrong view.
thanks again!