[RESOLVED] Question about localhost:nnnn vs localhost

[szlamany]

I believe you proved you have a SOLUTION difference - but I think your brute-force method of editing the SLN file is not a good idea.

You need to "select a browser service" from within the IDE so it can properly align that change...

Or someone really messed up a project creation.

Is this a WEB PROJECT vs WEB FOLDER kind of problem??

[MMock]

Well, this is such a disappointing resolution. It's working now, simply from me grabbing the project fresh from a zip file. But that was where I got it in the first place weeks ago, so why it's suddenly working beats me.

Here is the history. This project belonged to programmer A who worked in another department and was transitioning his project to our department. He put a zip file on a fileshare as a way of giving us the project (why we don't go to Source Control or TFS, I don't know). Programmer B worked with it to get it working (she "couldn't get it to run" but changed some web.config settings and created a VD in IIS, etc) and zipped it to another location for Programmer Me and Programmer C to get (never heard much from C). When I got it and ran it, it ran, but with the unresolved image and styling issue and running from ASP.NET Development Server instead of IIS. So today she tells me to get it from the zip file again, and all is miraculously working wonderfully. I am guessing she made some changes after she created the zip file that weren't propogated back in order for me to get them. Then she created the zip file again today. I can't really say what those changes were - perhaps, Steve, some of it was the changes I had made in an editor to the sln file which you said would be better off made in the IDE itself.

Thanks for all the help. Even though I didn't end up being the one to solve this and can't really say what did solve it, I think I learned a lot.

[gep13]

Well, this is such a disappointing resolution. It's working now, simply from me grabbing the project fresh from a zip file. But that was where I got it in the first place weeks ago, so why it's suddenly working beats me.

Here is the history. This project belonged to programmer A who worked in another department and was transitioning his project to our department. He put a zip file on a fileshare as a way of giving us the project (why we don't go to Source Control or TFS, I don't know). Programmer B worked with it to get it working (she "couldn't get it to run" but changed some web.config settings and created a VD in IIS, etc) and zipped it to another location for Programmer Me and Programmer C to get (never heard much from C). When I got it and ran it, it ran, but with the unresolved image and styling issue and running from ASP.NET Development Server instead of IIS. So today she tells me to get it from the zip file again, and all is miraculously working wonderfully. I am guessing she made some changes after she created the zip file that weren't propogated back in order for me to get them. Then she created the zip file again today. I can't really say what those changes were - perhaps, Steve, some of it was the changes I had made in an editor to the sln file which you said would be better off made in the IDE itself.

Thanks for all the help. Even though I didn't end up being the one to solve this and can't really say what did solve it, I think I learned a lot.

If this isn't a great story on why to use Source Control, I don't know what would be

Glad to hear that you got it all sorted out though!

Gary