Re: VS.NET 2005 and the "allowDefinition='MachineToApplication'" error

re:
Do I need to create a virtual directory for each and every project I
want to test?

No. Only for the ones which use sections defined as
allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' in its configuration file.

re:
Is that belief mistaken?

No, it's not, but the same rules apply for the internal web server as for IIS.
If you need to use 'MachineToApplication' sections, you must create a virtual directory.

Take a look at machine.config.comments in:
Drive:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG

Search for allowDefinition="MachineToApplication" in that file.
You will find 17 sections marked as allowDefinition="MachineToApplication".

If you use any of those sections, you'll need to create a virtual directory.
If you don't use any of those sections, you don't need to create a virtual directory.



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<deathtospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't understand, though -- *what* became unmapped? I haven't
touched IIS on my machine to date, which is running a vanilla
installation of Windows XP Professional and Visual Studio .NET 2005.
Do I need to create a virtual directory for each and every project I
want to test?

I thought VS.NET 2005 came with its own internal IIS-Lite webserver,
which is why you can debug a project without configuring IIS, and which
is why you also see a dynamic port number when you debug a script
without actually deploying it. Is that belief mistaken?


-= Tek Boy =-


Alvin Bruney [MVP] wrote:
hmmm, you are best served by inspecting the IIS virtual directory to see if
it *somehow became unmapped. If it is, just create a new virtual directory
pointed to the application. And watch out for the little elves that change
things when no one is looking :-)

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<deathtospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A day or two ago, I wrote a quick ASPX page with a CS codebehind using
Visual Studio .NET 2005 -- it worked, I saved it and closed the
project. Today, I came back to the project, reopened the solution, and
was greeted with the following error:

========================================================================
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.
========================================================================

I did some searching on Google, and all of the solutions to this
problem involved tweaking IIS. The thing is, I didn't have to touch
IIS when I wrote, compiled and ran the ASPX the first time around --
why would I have to do it during a subsequent visit?

If anybody has any suggestions on how to resolve this problem, I would
greatly like to hear them. Thanks in advance!


-= Tek Boy =-




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