webPages loading problem

Question

Using ASP.Net & C#

I want to run my web page in the internet explorer or firefox...

When i run the webpage, it was working in VS, but when i run the webpage in the ie it showing error as

The XML page cannot be displayed 
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. 


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A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/Name/IIS/Detail

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="view.aspx.cs" Inherits="Default2" %>
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I configured the IIS, then i run the *.html file it is displaying without any error but *.aspx file is not displaying.

*.html file is running in ie & firefox, but *.aspx file is not running in ie & firefox,

How to run my *.aspx webpages in internet explore or firefox...

Answer 1

Are you trying to access the files directly? That's not going to work.

If you've configured IIS properly, you should just be able to browse to http://localhost/ and it will work.

Answer 2

Your ASP.Net may not be registered properly with IIS. You need to run the aspnet_regiis -i command from the visual studio command prompt.

Answer 3

Check the windows features, is .NET installed?

Answer 4

This message comes when you try to run the aspx file right in the browser [opening .aspx with browser] without any server-side end-point or when your IIS is not configured to deal with ASP.NET. ASP.NET is a server-side technology which means the server executes the asp.net page when requested and renders the output browser back in a way that it can understand which is html,xhtml, javascript etc.

Why this Message comes ?

When an asp.net file is received in browser as-is [without having the page rendered into html], the browser treats it as an XML file and asp.net page markup is not found to be a valid XML file, hence the error.

Solution

All you need to do is host your asp.net application under a website or virtual directory in IIS and configure it to work with asp.net and then request/run the .aspx file from browser with URL of your asp.net page as configured in the IIS.

You can find resources and information on how to configure IIS for asp.net here.