So I'm trying to set up a custom module that will allow a user to specify certain criteria and then download a tab delimited text file.  I've already got this code working as an ASP.NET form and displaying through an iFrame, but why go through that hassle when I can just make it into a module instead.

However, when I create a new module project, if I try and add any controls to my view.ascx page, it gives me the following error:

"Error Creating Control - lblUser (or whatever my control is suppsed to be called)

'/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/DotNetNuke_2' is not a valid IIS application."

I'm running visual studio 2005, framework 2.0 and DNN 4.8.4 Starter Kit.   Any help you can give me would be much appreciated.  I'm still new to DNN, so it could just be that I missed something obvious.

It means that ASP.NET application does not have access. It is usually not the same as a user account. You need to adjust the permissions of the root folder of the web application to allow access.

1) In IIS manager, right click on the web site and select properties, then click on the Home Directory tab. Note the Application Pool.
2) Now right click on the allipcation pool and select properties and click on the Identity tab.  Note the security account used (typically Network Service).
3) Now find the root folder using explorer and right click and select properties and click on the Security tab,

If the identity is in the list, ensure that full control is selected. If not, click edit and change it.  If it is not in the list click edit then add and select full control.

Now try it.

Anyone figure out a solution to this problem?  I'm getting it in both visual studio 2005 and 2008.   And I am running all of my local websites out of a single directory that has Everyone set to full permissions.   No matter what changes I try to make to the web application project, I get this error on my ascx files.

Warning 1 Z:\Programming\Marvici\xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx.ascx: ASP.NET runtime error: Could not find a part of the path 'Z:\Inetpub\DotNetNuke\'.

I have all of my Web Application Projects setup in a different sub directory from my sites that I use for testing.   And when I do a compile it copies all of the files over to the directory before running the debugger.

If someone has some information on how to fix this, I would be much appreciated.

Chaitanya