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[Solved] Can't run demos - missing file in ~/App_Data?

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Bill asked on 14 Feb 2008, 02:37 AM

I just downloaded the Q3 2007 release of Prometheus. I'm running VS Express 2008 on WinXP SP2.

When I opened the "Live Demos" in VS, it asked me if I wanted to convert to .NET 3.5, so I said yes, not sure if that was unwise or not, but it didn't appear to give me any choice. I created a backup though.

Anyway when I attempt to run any of the demos, I get a fatal error in web.config:

"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."

Am I doing anything wrong? I did note that this line in web.config may have a problem in that there does not appear to be a "TechEd.xml" file in the ~/App_Data directory:

<add name="TechEd" type="Telerik.Web.UI.XmlSchedulerProvider" fileName="~/App_Data/TechEd.xml" persistChanges="true" />

but perhaps that's a red herring. I can obviously create a dummy teched.xml file but that may be pointless if it's something else...

Thanks in advance,

-- bill

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answered on 14 Feb 2008, 11:07 PM

Found the problem...

I didn't notice this at first, but not only does VS 2008 convert the Live Demos project and create a backup, it includes the backup files in the converted project.

VS doesn't like having more than one web.config file (well, not strictly true, but certainly it doesn't do well with another completely redundant one).

Perhaps I'm losing it, but I couldn't find the "remove" command to remove it from Solution Explorer, so I created a .zip file of the "backup" subdirectory and deleted it entirely.

Voila, success.