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bonekrusher
08-22-2006, 06:12 PM
Hi All, I am learning ASP.NET so bare with me. I am using Visual Web Developer 2005 express to create a simple dropdownlist that gets its info from an MS Access table my server. It runs fine local, but not when I uploaded it my site. Exactly what do I need to add to the web.config file?

Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Unrecognized configuration section 'connectionStrings'

Source Error:


Line 10: <configuration>
Line 11: <appSettings/>
Line 12: <connectionStrings/>
Line 13: <system.web>
Line 14: <!--


Source File: c:\Sites\xxx\xxx\webroot\web.config Line: 12

web.config file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
Note: As an alternative to hand editing this file you can use the
web admin tool to configure settings for your application. Use
the Website->Asp.Net Configuration option in Visual Studio.
A full list of settings and comments can be found in
machine.config.comments usually located in
\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.x\Config
-->
<configuration>
<appSettings/>
<connectionStrings/>
<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.

Visual Basic options:
Set strict="true" to disallow all data type conversions
where data loss can occur.
Set explicit="true" to force declaration of all variables.
-->
<compilation debug="true" strict="false" explicit="true"/>
<pages>
<namespaces>
<clear/>
<add namespace="System"/>
<add namespace="System.Collections"/>
<add namespace="System.Collections.Specialized"/>
<add namespace="System.Configuration"/>
<add namespace="System.Text"/>
<add namespace="System.Text.RegularExpressions"/>
<add namespace="System.Web"/>
<add namespace="System.Web.Caching"/>
<add namespace="System.Web.SessionState"/>
<add namespace="System.Web.Security"/>
<add namespace="System.Web.Profile"/>
<add namespace="System.Web.UI"/>
<add namespace="System.Web.UI.WebControls"/>
<add namespace="System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts"/>
<add namespace="System.Web.UI.HtmlControls"/>
</namespaces>
</pages>
<!--
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>
</configuration>






ASPX Code:

<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" DataSourceID="AccessDataSource1"
DataTextField="Element_Name" DataValueField="Sys_id" Width="337px">
</asp:DropDownList><asp:AccessDataSource ID="AccessDataSource1" runat="server" DataFile="~/ATOSDBA.mdb"
SelectCommand="SELECT [Sys_id], [Element_Name] FROM [Elements_list]"></asp:AccessDataSource>

</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Adeptus
08-22-2006, 10:52 PM
Line 12: <connectionStrings/>
This is the line it is complaining about. I don't know why. But you should be safe to delete it.
It is an empty XML tag (the /> means end of tag)

bonekrusher
08-23-2006, 02:03 AM
Thanks but now I get the following error:
Line 27 no names spaces aload..

Line 25: <compilation debug="false" strict="false" explicit="true" />
Line 26: <pages>
Line 27: <namespaces>
Line 28: <clear />
Line 29: <add namespace="System" />

Kodo
08-23-2006, 02:25 AM
this is beginning to sound to me like the Web Application in IIS is not set up for .NET 2.0

bonekrusher
08-23-2006, 05:59 AM
well, I am lost.

I am using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express. I would think that it would support this. Maybe I am missing a step with in the authoring program.....

Kodo
08-23-2006, 05:17 PM
well, when you upload it to your site, it is no longer running locally. The host (the place you uploaded it to) must have your appliction in IIS configured to use ASP.NET 2.0.