move a .net project from another computer locally

inherited an asp.net/vb app.

[danielm28]

hello,

i have inherited an asp.net/vb.net application. i have access to the web server where the app resides (studio.net isn't installed). i need to bring a working copy of the app down locally and make some changes in studio.net. how do i do this?

Thanks

[TheNige]

FTP it your machine so you have the project there...hopefully it includes all of the project files. Do the changes, recompile and then you can just FTP the files that changed and the dll back to the server.

[danielm28]

ok. i finally got the ftp info and have downloaded the project locally.

when i go to open the project, I get the following error:

Unable to open Web project '/'. The file path does not correspond to the URL. The two need to map to the same server location. HTTP Error 404: Object not found.

I'm running IIS 5.1 on xp pro.
any help is appreciated.

[TheNige]

Set up a virtual directory on the project folder with the same name as the vs.net project.

[danielm28]

i did that and I'm still getting the same errors. any other suggestions?

[Jimmy Turnip]

Try opening the .sln file with notepad and change the following to match the new location of your site and solution:

Project("{SOME GUID HERE}") = "PATH", "http://PROJECT PATH", "{SOME OTHER GUID HERE}"

It should be quite self explanatory once you open it.

[danielm28]

there is no sln file here locally or on the web server that contains the inherited application. Is this my problem?
I've been attempting to open a .vbproj file

[TheNige]

Not sure if that is the problem...but you can create a blank solution in VS.net and then add an existing project to it...

[danielm28]

when i created a blank solution and added my project to it i still get this error message:

"Unable to open Web project '/'. The file path does not correspond to the URL. The two need to map to the same server location. HTTP Error 404: Object not found. "

thoughts?

[Jimmy Turnip]

Have you created a website for your project in IIS with the same name as the project (without the vbproj)?

[danielm28]

yes, i have created a virtual directory with the same name as my new project. This hasn't fixed the problem.
thx

[tomasz]

Try this, remove virtual directory, remove all files, then create new project with same name and you can copy your project files to newly created folders. then you will have a sln file there which should open your project.

[danielm28]

tomasz,

great, my project opened. thank you everyone for the help.