dashCommerce

Hello all,

 When I double click on dashCommerce.sln, VS 2005 opens and says the web.csproj cannot be opened because the project type is not supported. I'm really not sure of what I'm doing (hey,everyone has to start somewhere), but I thought the file would just start an installation of files onto my computer and not start VS 2005. Also, I was just trying to do the web ready set, but am unsure of exactly what to do. I read through the installation pdf and followed it through until I got to the part of the dashCommerce.sln file. Can someone please help me? Thanks, Jason

Hi Jason,

I'm experiencing the same issue. I'll try and research some more on my end and if I find out anything, I'll write back.

 Janessa

In order to open up the dashCommerce.sln file, I first had to update my version of Visual Studio here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb4a75ab-e2d4-4c96-b39d-37baf6b5b1dc&DisplayLang=en

 Once I opened up the solution in VS, I right-clicked on the web folder and selected "set as startup project".

Once I did that, then I opened IIS and on the web sites folder, I right-clicked and selected New - Virtual Directory. I named the directory dashCommerce and then browsed to the dashCommerce/web folder.

Then I was able to open up IE and navigate to: localhost/dashCommerce/install/install.aspx and open up the config manager. I'm still having database connection issues, but hopefully I was able to get you past the point where you were stuck.

- Janessa

Jallen has it correct,

You cannot create web applications/sites in c# (Visual Studio 2005) without the service pack. Installing the service pack will configure VS2005 correctly. It did for me!

hope this helps