Building a Visual Studio 2008 Web applicatio in VWD Express 2008

Question

Hi,

I have an ASP.NET web application with a web forms projects with dependencies on several business class library projects and a WCF project. This was built with Visual Studio 2008.

I take this source code folder tree to another PC and copy under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot , open IIS and in the properties of the above folder, create application .

I open this as a local Web site with HTTP bindings in Visual Web Developer Express 2008. All the projects now show up as folders.

However, when i build the web site, i get the error as below :-

It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS. c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Foo\FOO\Web.config 39

What is the error and how can i overcome this ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

It means that \foo\FOO is not an application. Perhaps you set \foo to be the application?