Illegal characters in path

Question

I just bought a new Windows 7 laptop. I cannot use Visual Studio with Silverlight. Every time I try to run a Silverlight application, I get a message: "Illegal characters in path". It does this with existing Silverlight applications and with brand new applications that I create and immediately run. This is happening in both VS 2008 and VS 2010. Other type of projects (e.g. WPF) work fine. At this point, I'm at my wits end. PLEASE help!!!

Answer 1

 can you create a new web application in IIS that points to the silverlight web project and navigate directly ?

(or just browse to the web project testpage.html)

Try using firefox or another browser.

use fiddler and process monitor to identify what (if any) paths are causing the issue.

http://fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Answer 2

Publishing to IIS fails, however if I manually copy the files then yes I can access the application.

 

Answer 3

Hi Octapi,

OK.   You'd better check your access urls to see whether there is some invalid character in your url.  Secondly, you'd better compare the different settings between the two websites.

Best regards,

Jonathan