The following error is prompted when you open the project: Visual Studio. NET cannot create an application. The problem is probably because the required components are not installed on the Local Web server.

Reconfigure the computer for Web Development

Note that all the steps below occur on the Web server computer.

1. Confirm that IIS is installed. One way is to open control panel and select Internet Service Manager ". If IIS is installed, you can use this utility to stop and start it.

If IIS is not installed, on Windows Control Panel, select add or delete programs, and then select Add/delete Windows Components ". In the list, select "Internet Information Service (IIS)" and continue the installation. For more information, see Windows Help.

When installing IIS, we strongly recommend that you ensure the security of your Web server computer. For more information, see the installation document file webserver.htm. The installation path of this file on CD is disk1 \ Setup \ webserver.htm. After Visual Studio is installed, you can find the file at % install % \ csetupmm \ webserver.htm on the hard disk.

2. install or reinstall the. NET Framework. Run Visual Studio. NET and select option 1 "Windows component Update ".

Note if you are sure that the current. NET Framework version is installed on the Web server computer, skip this step.

3. Open the "run" window for Windows, and type the following to enable ASP. NET:

Aspnet_regiis.exe/I

Prompt that you can open the command window directly from the correct directory of the command. From the "Start" menu of windows, point to "program", "Visual Studio. NET 2003", "Visual Studio. NET tool", and select "Visual Studio. NET command prompt ". After the window opens, type aspnet_regiis/I.

4. Install the Visual Studio. NET Server component.

A. Run Visual Studio. NET again and select option 2 "Visual Studio. NET ".

The system prompts you to run the installation from the control panel by selecting "add or delete programs" and Microsoft Visual Studio.. Net (the specific name varies slightly depending on the installed version and language), and then click Change/Delete ".

B. Select "add or delete function ".

C. Open the "server components" node and select "Web development ".

D. Click "update now !"

5. Execute security lock on IIS, but then enable ASP. NET.

If you are running IIS 2000 on Windows 5.0 or Windows XP, you can use the IIS lock tool (Version 2.1 ).

In Windows Server 2003, you can set the application security level in IIS manager. For more information about using IIS manager and canceling ASP. NET application locking, see the topic Visual Studio. NET detects that ASP. NET applications and services in IIS are locked.

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