AzamSharp

Talk about BUGS! not the movie but bugs in Visual Studio.NET 2005. I was trying to implement simple security in Visual Studio.NET 2005 by using folder security.

So, I created a folder name "Admin" and make these settings in my web.config file.

  <location path="Admin">
    <system.web>
      <!-- 
            Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging 
            symbols into the compiled page. Because this 
            affects performance, set this value to true only 
            during development.
        -->
      <compilation debug="true"/>
      <!--
            The <authentication> section enables configuration 
            of the security authentication mode used by 
            ASP.NET to identify an incoming user. 
        -->
      <authentication mode="Windows"/>
      <!--
            The <customErrors> section enables configuration 
            of what to do if/when an unhandled error occurs 
            during the execution of a request. Specifically, 
            it enables developers to configure html error pages 
            to be displayed in place of a error stack trace.

        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="GenericErrorPage.htm">
            <error statusCode="403" redirect="NoAccess.htm" />
            <error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm" />
        </customErrors>
        -->
    </system.web>
  </location>

When I ran this code I get the following error:

Error 1 It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level.  This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS. C:\Documents and Settings\AZAMSHARP\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\WebSites\PassingDataGridValues\Web.Config 28 

You will only receive this error when the folder in the web.config is present in your application directory.

Are we looking at a new BUG in Visual Studio.NET 2005?

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