unable to open web project in Visual Studio

[headward]

Hi,

When I try to create a new web project,
or "add existing project from web"
or "open from source control"

i'm prompted for a URL and type in a virtual directory.

-- with "add project from web" i just get a file dialog box in "my documents" and browsing to the right project folder doesn't work.

-- with "create new project" visual studio then complains that the virtual directory doesn't correspond to c:\someRecentRandomProejct\NewProjectName. i'm allowed to type in the correct directory, and everything's hunky dory.

if trying to open a project from source control, i get the same deal as "create new project" i.e. Visual Studio makes a stupid guess at the directory, but i'm not allowed to correct that guess.

So I imagine my task is to get VS and IIS to work together so VS can infer the directory when i type in the URL?

I'm very unclear about IIS/websites/virtual directories. I'm just assuming that if i can browse to the correct directory by typing in the URL in IE, then visual studio ought to be able to do the same. (it works for creating new projects, after all)

Any help would be much appreciated!

Edward

[macrost]

Do you have Front Page Extensions installed on your server? It really helps with VS.

[TheNige]

Yes, easiest is to create your virtual directory in IIS first with the name that you want. This way you can place the project files where ever you want. Then in VS create a new project and name it the same as your virtual directory and then VS will correctly map to it.

[beauzero]

...and after that (you should have your VSS box already setup) add the project to VSS. Remember that you have to have the same username in VSS as your AD account minus the domain. i.e. mydomain\username
username needs to be in VSS (you don't have to put a password in...it won't sync with AD anyway).