re:
I really don't think you understand what I'm even saying.
Perhaps you haven't supplied the correct information,
or asked yourself the correct questions, or listened well enough.
My only point is that you're presenting a unique situation which I have
never seen reported, so you should look to how your system(s) are
configured for the answer.
You have 3 things at play here :
1. Your hardware configuration
2. Your software configuration
3. Your network environment ( both hardware and software )
You'll need to check all of them.
re:
You telling me that your system does the job in a short period of time does not, in any
way, mean that MY problem is specs.
No one is disputing that, as far as hardware goes.
Sometimes a comparison helps.
Don't your disk/software images have specs, too ?
I've seen no end of problems come from standard disk images,
starting with name ambiguities and running a whole gamut
of items which need individual configuration.
Networked environments are particularly sensitive to naming ambiguities,
and they could lead to, precisely, the type of problem you are describing.
re:
Since creating a web application involves VS.NET and IIS communicating and the
configuration of the two products configured properly, it may be an IIS configuration
issue, it may be a VS .NET configuration issue
Your original phrasing was :
"It seems that the IIS directory gets created right away, but it is not
configured as an application directory until several minutes go by."
And the *same* problem exists in *all* the machines, right ?
If so, this, again, points to name ambiguities.
re:
it may be a permissions issue (this is, after all, a corporate desktop image I'm talking
about).
That could very well be.
Many IIS settings depend on machine-specific configurations.
How about something simple, like the TCP/IP stacks ?
When you run applications on the localhosts, do the sites respond quickly ?
Juan T. Llibre, ASP.NET MVP
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