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[ASP .NET] VS 2008 Development Server


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I'm getting into asp.net development and I'm having trouble getting the local development server that comes with VS 2008 to work properly. I created a new default asp.net web application and built it, I saw the pop up saying that the development server is running and it automatically launched IE8 beta 2. IE went right to a page cannot be displayed screen. I've tried copying the link into other browsers and get the same thing. I thought it could be conflicting with IIS 7 which is installed, but it still didn't work after I disabled IIS. Is there a way to just get VS to use IIS or get the VS development environment to work?

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Right click the website in Solution Explorer, select Property Pages. On Start Options, select Use custom server and enter 'http://localhost/'. That will make Visual Studio use IIS instead of the built in Development Server.

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Right click the website in Solution Explorer, select Property Pages. On Start Options, select Use custom server and enter 'http://localhost/'. That will make Visual Studio use IIS instead of the built in Development Server.

Thank you, that did it.

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another thing that will cause this if your running an asp.net app with sql server and sql server isnt running the website will fail to display in the asp.net development server.l

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^ Well, thats not exactly his problem such a problem with Sql Server will cause ASP.NET to throw an exception, but *at least* the web server would have responded. The problem he is getting is being caused before the request even gets to the web server.

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