"Robert Ladd" <rladd@cox.net> wrote in message
news:ZN4_e.161407$Ji4.126494@fed1read03...
> Hi,
> A strange thing started happening today when I tried to copy from my local
> machine to my webhost. I've been using VS 2003 and publishing using the
> "Copy Project..." menu item of the "Project" menu. I've used this for
> months without a problem. Suddenly today, when I click the OK button on
the
> Copy Project dialog I get a messagebox with a title "Microsoft Development
> Environment", that says "Unable to open Web project '/'. Not Found".
>
> I'm able to RUN the project without a problem from localhost. I can't
seem
> to find anything else that's not working. I can ftp to my webhost, so I'm
> not completely stuck, but this just started happening and I can't figure
it
> out.
>
> I've been working on a winforms project using VS the last few days, so I
> haven't been publishing lately. The winforms project isn't complicated
and
> I doubt that anything I'm doing for that project would have affected this
> one.
>
> In addition, I have an older site that I haven't touched in months, and
> trying to copy that also got the same response.
>
> The message is pretty weak, but my guess is that the Copy Project isn't
> using the correct path for the source project folder. Which in my case is
> "http://localhost/XYZfolder" (XYZfolder isn't the real name). Although,
> for what I know about it, the message could be pertaining to the Destinati
on
> project folder.
>
> I've tried deleting the virtual directory out of IIS and recreating it,
and
> that didn't seem to change anything. I've looked at all the
configurations,
> and options with nothing that seems to point to the missing Web project
> name/path.
>
> If anyone has an idea of what to try, I'd sure appreciate a response.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>
>