Occasionally, when I open a visual studio 2003 ASP.NET project it seems to spend forever loading up then finally displays the following error message:
"The web server reported the following error while attempting to create or open the web project located at the following URL: http://localhost/myprojectname. The operation timed out."
Any idea why this happens and how to fix it?
The fix for me was to unregister the re-register iis for .net:
Open command window and navigate to C:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322 Type in aspnet_regiis -u Once finished uninstalling ASP.NET type in apsnet_regiis -i
Just performing aspnet_regiis -i by itself did not work.
Still unsure as to why this is happening but probably something to do with switching dev environments between Eclipse\Java\JBoss to VS2003\C#\IIS
This worked for me...
http://forums.asp.net/p/1192304/2066860.aspx
On my XP development machine I went to "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\VSWebCache\USERNAME\" and deleted the folder matching my VS2003 solution name. (Actually I moved the folder to C:\Temp just in case). This worked, although one designer file would not load without a re-build and the start-up page needed to be re-marked. I don't understand why my solution depends on this VSWebCache (it re-appeared when I re-built my solution.) Can anyone explain this dependence? It's un-settling.