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Asked: 2026-05-17T18:38:58+00:00

I just got a new desktop computer with Windows 7 Pro as the operating

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I just got a new desktop computer with Windows 7 Pro as the operating system. I installed Visual Studio 2008 on to this new computer and tried to open a previously existing ASP.NET 3.5 solution that displayed perfectly fine on my previous computer (this previous computer used the Windows XP operating system, IIS6, and IE7 browser). However, in Windows7/IE8, I’m receiving the following error:

Server Error in ‘/’ Application.

Parser Error Description: An error
occurred during the parsing of a
resource required to service this
request. Please review the following
specific parse error details and
modify your source file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: The file
‘/MasterPages/MainMaster.master’ does not exist.

Source Error:

Line 1: <%@ Page Language=”C#”
AutoEventWireup=”true”
CodeFile=”default.aspx.cs”
Inherits=”_Default”
MasterPageFile=”~/MasterPages/MainMaster.master”%>
Line 2:
Line 3: <%@ Register TagPrefix=”SBLContent” TagName=”SBLContentBlock”
Src=”usercontrols/content.ascx”%>

Source File: /SBLWebSite/default.aspx
Line: 1

Version Information: Microsoft .NET
Framework Version:2.0.50727.4952;
ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.4927

Please believe me when I tell you that the file ‘/MasterPages/MainMaster.master’ file does, in fact, exist.

In addition, this file’s location is properly referenced in the code (as indicated in Line 1 above), and as I said, was displayed properly by the browser in my previous computer. It might also be helpful to note that I’ve tried to navigate to other pages in this site, and this browser displays the same message for any and all master pages located in my MasterPages folder.

In summary, for some reason the browser cannot see any pages in the MasterPages folder. Can anybody tell me why I’m getting this error message when the folder and file is exactly where default.aspx says it is?

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I appreciate your response.

    However, this issue turned out to be an IIS7 issue. The error message I described arose out of the distinction made in IIS7 between a “virtual directory” and an “application” (I don’t know if such a distinction existed in IIS6). To fix this error, I opened IIS7, right-clicked on the virtual directory folder for this site, and selected “Convert to Application.” I then refreshed the browser, and the error went away.

    Sigh.

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