When you try to create a project or open a previously created project, you may receive the following error message:
Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web server is not running
ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.NET Web applications or
services.
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When you create or open a project in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio .NET 2003 makes an HTTP Web
request to determine the version
of the .NET Framework that is on the Web server. Visual Studio .NET 2003 calls the http://
servername/get_aspx_ver.aspx page.
If you receive the error message, the default Web site is using Forms authentication, and the request is
redirected to an .htm page. Therefore, the request for the .aspx page is never made,
and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) cannot return the version information.
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To resolve this problem, use the location tag to stop Forms authentication from redirecting the request. To do this, add the following code to the Web.config file:
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
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