Hi All,

I am using Ms Visual Studio 2008 (because I already do some programming in C#) under XP and using IE8 to teach myself ASP.NET.

My problem is that, when I try to display a page (c/F5), first the browser comes up with a blank page. If I then close this browser, another browser comes up saying 'can not display the web page'. When I compare the address in the browser (eg http://localhost:2473/Default.aspx) with the port number of the internal server in the system tray (Port 2475), the port numbers are always a few numbers different. Manually changing the address in the browser to http://localhost:2475/Default.aspx solves the problem and displays the page correctly.

How, please, can I get it to (a) not show a blank page and (b) call up the same port number as the internal server? Not fatal but very frustrating!

David

Hi David,

Does it help when you assign a static port number on the web site's Properties dialog and set Use Dynamic Ports to false?

Imar

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Hi Omar,

No, whatever port number I enter, it says that the port is busy.

David

Omar? Who's Omar?

Do you have security software on your machine such as anti-virus or a firewall?

Imar

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Imar,

Many apologies - Currently dealing with a lawyer in Jordan called Omar - confusing for a bear of small brain - explanation but not an excuse!

Yes, I have the Eset anti-virus software and, armed with your suggestion, found a reference on Google to the problem. By excluding VS2008 from the active browser filtering, the port problem is solved. Thanks for that.

However, I still receive this blank page following c/F5. Only when I close this does the page display.

Regards, David

Haha, no problem.... ;-)

I've seen the problem you describe on a developer's machine once, but never saw if, and how, it was fixed. Google has a few reference though.

These two suggest disabling addons in Intenet Explorer:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualS...page-ie8-first
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...ick-start-with

More info in case this doesn't fix it:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...882c49a45bf057

Hope this helps,

Imar

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Have tried all of this without success. However, it works fine with Debug (F5) as opposed to c/F5. Probably a bit slower but time to move on. At least I have got rid of the 'wrong port number' problem.

Thanks for your suggestions.