Mission Impossible: Opening .NET 1.1/VS 2003 Web Project

Adel Khalil — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:48:55 GMT

If you are lucky enough to not work with web project in VS 2003 don't read on.

i have a massive amount of time trying to figure how to open a web project written in .NET 1.1/VS 2003 on another machine on couple of XP machines every time i got error and try to hack into it to get another one, all kind of error message you name it, tried everything news groups, forums even cached expert-exchange :) with no luck.. not because no one out there have similar experience but because tons of people have but it seems like this problem have like million cause and millions of solution and what works for you not guaranteed to work with your peers so here i add mine the one works for me that i didn't find maybe will be helpful for the next poor developer.

1-Uninstall IIS 5.1

2-Restart

3-Uninstall Visual Studio 2003

4-Uninstall Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (don't think this matter but what the hell throw that too)

5-Restart again

6-Install IIS 5.1 + Front Page Server Extensions

7-Configure Server Extensions for the default website

8-Restart for the third time

9-Install Visual Studio 2003

10-Create a virtual directory for your solution on IIS

11-go to the solution folder and open .sln file with notepad you will find something similar to this

Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 8.00
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "Project)Name", http://localhost/Solution_Folder/Project_Folder/MyProject.csproj, "{70B6AF8F-5AAE-4E9A-A0C5-F279A3326811}"
ProjectSection(ProjectDependencies) = postProject
EndProjectSection
EndProject

map the path to the actual .csproj file for your solution.

12-Smile

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Mission Impossible: Opening .NET 1.1/VS 2003 Web Project