In Visual Studio, my design view doesn't load the master page controls. Why?

Question

It's just so much HRESULT E_FAIL, if you know what I'm talking about. And if you use Visual Studio, you know what I'm talking about.

Similar thread, but not a duplicate: Is the design view for aspx pages in Visual Studio useful?

Any insight, including input from Microsoft MVPs (oh, I know you're out there) would be super cool.

Answer 1

Try this: Put your MasterPages in a seperate folder (if they aren't already. Call it 'masterpages'. Then add this to your web.config:

<location path="MasterPage">
<system.web>
  <authorization>
    <allow users="?" />
  </authorization>
</system.web>

This will allow anonymous access to that folder and allow access to the masterpage. Also, are these nested masterpages?