in need of serious help ... totally fouled up my .NET configuratio

[rolaaus]

I am so frustrated that I might just end up re-formatting my computer and
starting over from scratch. I am running Windows XP, but it's an older
machine. I just recently received an MSDN subscription, so I might just
throw on Vista or 2003 or 2008 server.

But, in the meantime, here's the situation.

I downloaded and installed SQL 2008 developer, then installed Visual Studio
2008 Team Suite. Did all the updates, and everything was just fine.

When I installed Visual Studio, I elected not to install SQL Server, because
it was the Express version and I didn't relly want to deal with multiple
instances or versions.

I went into Visual Studio and started a new application from scratch - an
ASP .NET app, and I wanted to configure User/Role security, but kept running
into a roadblock because the machine.config file kept looking for the SQL
Express.

I tried to set-up a reference within the web.config file, but it didn't work
out, so I tried to modify the machine.config and it kept erroring out as
well. I ended up having to restore the machine.config file from
machine.config.defaults and it worked, but I kept playing around with the
settings, and now I can't even restore the file with this anymore. I am
getting the following error,when I try to go into the Website -> ASP.NET
configuration


Server Error in '/asp.netwebadminfiles' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

If anyone has any possible fixes, or knows a way that I can simply "reset"
my .NET files, it would be greatly appreciated.

I tried doing an uninstall of .NET 2.0 SP1 and I tried to
uninstall/re-install Vstudio. I even downloaded the .NET cleanup utility
from http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/12/04/6659905.aspx But I
only tried doing .NET 2 SP1, and not the "all" option.

I'm so upset about this whole thing, that since I am considering upgrading
my OS, I might just try to use the cleanup and chose the ALL option and then
try re-installing each of the .NET frameworks individually -- I'm not sure
what files I will absolutely need, because they were all installed during the
SQL/Vstudio installations, and that's the way I like it, utilize the built-in
scripts instead of trying to customize your own configuration.

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

This is a .NET *compact* framework group. For the framework we use, we'd
simply recommend a hard-reset of the device and it's back to factory
default.


--

Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF Consulting
Giving back to the embedded community
http://community.OpenNETCF.com

 

[rolaaus]

Ironically, I ended up having to do a "hard reset"

I kept hearing a high pitched noise coming from my pc, and I set it to
download Windows Server 2003 over night and when I came back, my hard drive
died.

I couldn't even check to see if the downloaded completed first (I am running
2 IDE drives and 1 !huge! SATA drive - and the main C: drive is one of the
IDE's and it was the one that died, and I was saving the download to my E:
drive)

Anyways, not sure how I ended up in the Compact framework forum - I was
getting here thru MSDN managed newsgroup link on the website.