Ok, this has got to be a super simple problem. I just can’t seem to find the answer anywhere. First – I’m not a web developer of any kind, I’m an old school c programmer – so don’t flame me for what’s probably something quite trivial 🙂
I need to write a small proof-of-concept web app using ASP.NET. My first attempt here is to create a ‘Hello World!’ app. So I opened up Visual Studio, and made a new web application. I have my Default.aspx file that calls a C# function that is inside the helloworld.dll created automatically by Visual Studio.
I installed IIS on my local machine and created a virtual directory in the wwwroot subdirectory. I put the Default.aspx and helloworld.dll in that directory. Now when I browse to that page I see the following.
Server Error in '/test' 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: Could not load type 'HelloWorld._Default'. Source Error: Line 1: <%@ Page Language='C#' AutoEventWireup='true' CodeBehind='Default.aspx.cs' Inherits='HelloWorld._Default' %> Line 2: Line 3: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'> Source File: /test/default.aspx Line: 1 Obviously, IIS doesn’t know where to look for the .dll or anything like that. I just don’t know how to register the .dll with IIS (or whoever manages that stuff in .net) so that it can find the functions it need.
Can someone let me know how to ‘install’ an ASP.NET application on IIS?
Your best bet is to use ‘Publish website’ from the Visual Studio Solution Explorer.
Chris Lively adds: