[Solved] VS 2008 Live Demos compile error allowDefinition='MachineToApplication'

[Ed Musters]

Hi All,

I have a Windows Server 2008 / SQL 2008 / VS 2008 machine and was trying to load the the Live Demos project, but compiling it gave the following error:

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. 

The reason is that you (wisely) said "yes" to creating a backup of the project, and it created a Backup folder.  Unfortunately, this backup folder contains a web.config file, VS2008 is confused because it found multiple web.config files in the root folder AND sub-folders off of the main web site.

The solution is just to move the Backup folder out of the Live Demos folder, somewhere else for safe keeping.  Recompile!  Now your live demos are running in VS2008!  Enjoy.

Ed.
Toronto, Canada.
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[Daniel]

Hello Ed,

Thank you for your recommendation. I suppose you mean that you created project backup by yourself? If you check the RadControls archive you should notice that there is no such folder inside.

Thanks for sharing the solution with us.

Let us know whether we can assist you further.

Best regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

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[Wei]

Thanks Ed.
This solved my problem

[John Mathis]

Mine too!

Thanks.

[TriZetto]

This solved my problem too.  

And for what its worth, I believe the backup directory is created by VS when it converts the solution to VS2008.