I have been given an old website made in Visual Studio 2010, I need to open it to see how it works internally. I try to open the project with VS2015 Professional but it gives me the following error and it does not open it.
I would be grateful if someone tells me how I can open it since I hardly have any experience in the ASP.NET world. Thank you
This error is caused by Visual Studio trying to create a virtual directory on a drive mapped to drive
Z
, which may be offline or not writable. It also seems to me that you are opening the solution from an external path to your computer.Ideally, you should open the solution from your computer so that you are not dealing with network failures, as well as follow the instructions below to create a local virtual directory:
Select the tab Web, and
Project URL
make sure you have a path to localhost:With this, you are creating a virtual directory on your local IIS, without the need to rely on an external drive to your computer and ensuring that the application will run directly on your
localhost
.Try to do the following: