Today i just caught up with a strange error while opening my project which created from another system using visual studio 2003. After some 4 hours of search I found a solution and that is as below.
If you use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET to open a solution file (.sln), and the solution file contains a Web project that was developed on a computer other than the computer that you are currently working on, you receive the following error message:
The default Web access mode for this project is set to file share, but the project folder at http://LocalHost/ProjectName cannot be opened with the path ‘filepath. The error returned was:
Unable to open Web project projectname. The Web projectname located on server http://localhost does not exist.
What would you like to do?
Retry using a different file share path
Try to open the project with FrontPage Server Extensions
Work offline
Ths solution is for visual studio 2003
- Fist copy your source folder to the ‘wwwroot’ directory.
- Open the IIS and right click the default website and select new -> Website , It will open a wizard.
- Click Next and finish the wizard by specify the path of the the project directory which we copy it in the wwwrooot directory
- Also careful when choosing the port , choose a port that is not already selected
- Then search for the “projecname.csproject.webinfo” and change the path as “http://localhost:portselected/projectname,csproj” and save
- For safe just restart the IIS and open the projectname.csproj file using File->Open->Project OR Select File->Open->Project from web In the popup menu give the path specified in the webinfo file
Problem solved “Happy Coding”

