Cannot display Hello World correctly in a browser

Tofog · May 22nd, 2010, 07:48 PM

I got the the Hello World section of chapter 2, and typed this into a new web site:

Code:

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

CTRL-F5 opens IE with a blank page (URL=about.blank). If I close the browser, the browser reopens with the code as you see it above except with a space between each line (URL=http://localhost:3570/WebSite1/Default.aspx). If I right-click default.aspx and choose Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Internal Browser it also displays the source code as you see it above. In either case, the first time I run it after a reboot, a small window comes up showing:

ASP.NET Development Server
http://localhost:3570/WebSite1

I viewed the source in IE and it showed this:

Code:

<!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><title>
	Untitled Page
</title></head>
<body>
    <p>
        &lt;div&gt;</p>
    <p>
        &lt;h1&gt;Hello World&lt;/h1&gt;</p>
    <p>
        &lt;p&gt;Welcome to Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 on &lt;%= DateTime.Now.ToString() %&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>
    <p>
        &lt;div&gt;</p>
</body>
</html>

This happens if I'm running it from an administrator or non-administrator account, running Visual Studio 2008 Professional or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express.

Any ideas?

Imar · May 23rd, 2010, 05:12 AM

Hi there,

Looks like you posted this in the wrong forum. The one for the Beginning book can be found here: http://p2p.wrox.com/book-beginning-asp-net-4-c-vb-560/

It also looks like you typed the code in Design View, not in Markup View. When you type in Design View, the code is converted so it can be dislayed as HTML, not interpreted as HTML. Type it again in Markup View and it should work.

Cheers,

Imar