Has anybody else experienced this problem?
Whenever I try to open a DNN 05.01.00 website as a project in Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio crashes. I've duplicated this problem on a second computer where I have a fresh installation of Visual Studio and DNN 05.01.00. So far I've wasted nearly 2 days on this problem.
Here is how to reproduce the problem:
1. Download DotNetNuke_Community_05.01.00_Install.zip
2. Unzip contents into a folder such as inetput/wwwroot/DNN510/
3. Use IIS to setup DNN510 as an application that points to this directory.
3. Navigate to http://localhost/DNN510 and use the wizard to install the DNN framework, database, etc. (The portal should open if successfully installed).
4. Now try opening the website in VS 2008: (File->Open->Website->...Inetput/wwww/DNN510). << CRASH!!! >>
I'm running Windows Vista with all of the latest updates to both Vista and Visual Studio. I've tested this on both 32 bit and 64 bit systems. I still need to test this on some other OS.
Curiously, if I change the web.config to "web.config.txt" and try opening the site in VS, it prompts me to convert the site to 3.5. If I choose NOT to convert, VS will load the site just fine. If I choose to upgrade to 3.5, VS crashes. So it only seems to have a problem with DNN when the site is configured to run with .NET 3.5. (This crashing only happens to DNN sites, by the way. Other sites that are configured to compile in .NET 3.5 work fine in VS).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Darryl