I got you new book and I am opening up the by opening up website command in Visual Studio 2013 and then I save it and asks for me to save a solution file which I do. Then later on when I want to come back and use the application,I then click on that solution file in Windows explorer in order to launch visual Studio 2013 again and it just hangs up forever with the word ....."initializing" on the solution in the solution explorer window in Visual Studio 2013. I can't get your code to run. Or I think that Visual 2013 is a pretty buggy tool. Your code must have some kind of deficiencies or something. Maybe some corrupted code.

Hi there,

Neither of these are true I think. There are no deficiencies in the code you can download for the book; it's all standard ASP.NET code that VS should be able to open without an issue. Also, corruption seems unlikely as then you wouldn't have been able to open them at all. Since source code files are plain text files there's also not much to corrupt.

Usually when things like this happen, it's caused by network issue or by plugins to Visual Studio.

To resolve the first option, save your web site on your local disk (such as in C:\BegASPNET as suggested in the book). Then save the .SLN file locally. Also, try ignoring the SLN file and simply use the File | Open Web Site command and browse to your site. This is the method that I use in the book.

For option 2, look under Tools | Extensions and Updates and see if you have any extensions. Try disabling them, restart VS and see if that works better.

Hope this helps,

Imar

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