vs 2005 and 2003 on the same machine

[Guest]

We have VS 2005 on our virtual machine and it has been working fine. I
recently installed VS 2003 same machine. Problem is I can’t create any web
project using VS 2003. It gave me the error saying “Unable to create Web
project. The file path ‘C:\Inetput\wwwroot\WebApplication1’ does not
correspond to the URL: ‘http://localhost/Application1’. The two need to map
to the same location. HTTP Error 404:â€.

Can some body please tell me what to do to take care of this problem?

Thanks.

 

[Gabriel Magaña]

Go back in time and install VS2003 first? VS2005 knows how not to break
VS2003, but VS2003 does not have a good enough crystal ball to know how not
to break VS2005...

 

[Guest]

Thanks but I can't really go back in time... Any other suggestions?

 

[Gabriel Magaña]

Sorry for being facetious in my answer, but thet is really the gist of the
matter, VS2003 cannot possibly know how to not break VS2005. I would
uninstall VS2003 first, then VS2005... Then I would install VS2003, then I
would spend some time making sure it works... L:astly, I would install
VS2005 and hope that it all works.

If anything does not work, I would do a re-install of the machine, starting
from putting Windows on a reformatted drive.

But that's just me, I do not like spending time fixing existing installs, I
get much better results starting from scratch...