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Johnrad
Johnrad

Reputation: 2655

VS2010 - ASP.NET Configuration Won't Open

I have a standard ASP.NET project. I have created a login control on the page and now I would like to start adding the option to register as a member on my page.

My problem is that when I click "Asp.net Configuration" in the solution explorer or under the Projects tab. Nothing opens up.

I have made sure that my project is not running, the configuration window just won't open.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 10401

Answers (5)

KavenG
KavenG

Reputation: 171

I was having the same issue with a brand new ASP.NET project in Visual Studio 2012.

When trying to open Project --> ASP.NET Configuration from Visual Studio, it was saying: An error was encountered. Please return to the previous page and try again.

The path to my application was: E:\\_Dev\C#\Site

I changed the Path to: E:\\_Dev\Web\Site and guess what? It works.

So even the # from C# was causing an issue. This thing is very picky on special characters...

Upvotes: 2

Mangesh Kadam
Mangesh Kadam

Reputation: 69

Sometimes, if web.config file is not opening on VS editor, ASP Configuration browser page won't appear, so make sure that web.config is open in the VS editor and then try to access the Configuration.

Upvotes: 2

John Flackett
John Flackett

Reputation: 61

I had the same problem, but I didn't want to keep switching from Firefox to IE to solve the issue. Digging a bit deeper, it seems the provided URL is incomplete. You need to use the following template:

http://localhost:<port>/asp.netwebadminfiles/default.aspx?applicationPhysicalPath=<projectPath>&applicationUrl=/

Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 6

Steven
Steven

Reputation: 166

SOLVED! I had exactly the same problem, Firefox was my default browser, after I reset Internet Explorer as the default browser, it worked! The configuration page is (for some silly reason) a web page, and perhaps it only jives with IE.

Upvotes: 15

Kris van der Mast
Kris van der Mast

Reputation: 16613

First check if you have an aspnetdb.mdf under the App_Data subfolder of that you previously set up the needed tables for the application services in another database.

If you haven't got these then build the solution and navigate to the page which has the login control on it. Normally ASP.NET will generate the needed database aspnetdb.mdfin the App_Data folder. Once you have that database you should be able to use the configuration which starts a web application with which you can create your users and define the roles to which they belong.

Grz, Kris.

Upvotes: 3

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