Question

I am trying to create a webform. I added a button control on the web form but when i switched to the design mode i got the error:
Error creating Button1
Cannot create web project item E:\MyProjects\C#\WebApplication1

Can somebody suggest a solution

Answer 1

You need to remove the # character because this character denotes a bookmark. It is a reserved “special character”, just as ? and / are reserved (although these characters aren’t allowed in folder names either).

Here is an example…

<img src="http://localhost/MyApplication/C#/Image1.png" />

This source location is treated as follows.

This part is treated as the location
http://localhost/MyApplication/C

This section denotes a bookmark (just as ? denotes a querystring)
#

This section is the anchor name for the bookmark
/Image1.png

So your image will try and load “http://localhost/MyApplication/C“

Here is an example of a real bookmark in action so you can see how it works… Pop this in a test html file (called “test.html”).

<p><a href="test.html#bookmark">Down A Bit</a></p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p>Put some really long content in here...</p>
<p><a name="bookmark"></a>When you click on "Down a Bit", 
the page will jump to this location without re-loading the page.</p>