IIS & ASP.Net

I've recently picked up a new laptop, and while setting up a VB/ASP1.1/IIS environment in WinXPSP2, I've suddenly picked up an odd issue.

Things had been working properly, a small VB/ASP app running locally thru IIS. Something appears to have gone wrong in the last week, and several attempts at uninstalling/re-installing the related components (IIS, ASP and Visual Studio) have not corrected the issue.

Essentially, when I go to open an aspx page on my local site, I see the browser churn for a bit, then I hear a <Ding> noise, and the page never loads. Normal html pages appear to be working fine.

Does anyone have any pointers on what this issue might be? I seem to have permissions set properly. IIS isn't reporting any error(s) back to the IE client. When I check the server logs, I'm seeing the initial request for my login.aspx page, followed by a row populated by NUL values. No messages are available in the Event log.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you might be able to provide.

Have you tried reinstalling the .net framework?

Try running :
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis -i

for reasons better know to my laptop ocassionally i need to reinstall .net on iis and this command line does it.

I've given that a try a few times as a part of reinstalling IIS itself.

Right now, I'm trying to get things down to bare essentials. I'm removing all instances of Visual Studio, doing an install of IIS, then attempting to recreate the issue using an ASP.net application already located on my laptop.

It doesn't appear that the problem lies with Vs at all, whenever I try to load anything asp.net related from IIS, my brower creates a <ding> noise, and IIS starts to hang.

visual studio should have no impact on the server really.

Sometimes I've had a permisions problem on some dll's caused by windows update.
I can't remember the files that were involved but the information is on msdn somewhere! you could try giving everyone modify rights to the C drive to rule out the problem but I wouldn't recommend it as a long term solution.

Hi ,
Seems like your process is getting killed ,might be. Which version of IIS ? Have you checked Event viewer and IISLogfiles ? What is the status codes there?

Jeethu Joseph
IIS/Asp.Net Engineer Microsoft.

Killing yes, but IIS seems to be a trooper and never quite dies. Once I try to initiate a connection to the asp.net app, IIS becomes hung, and I can't cleanly stop the service.

No messages make it to the event log. The IIS log picks up a long series of null values, they show up as NUL in Notepad++. Beyond that, had any other clues or indications other than the audible Ding! sound that appears when I initially try to load the ASP app.

What version of windows/IIS?

If you have any antivirus script blocking programs running, try disabling. Likewise firewall, popup blockers, etc.

Also verify that the www service is running and not hung.

XP is iis 5.0.

I had a problem with symantec and classic ASP going back a few years ago. Specifically it was FSO causing the problem.

I'd say that it's more likely to be virus checker issue than a firewall one if you're running locally.

Any scriptblocking was disabled, and the WWW service was running properly until I tried launching the asp.net app, at which point it became hung.

I finally gave up, reloaded the OS, and all is running as it should. Thanks all for the suggestions.

I have the same problem: new laptop, aspx page hungs. I reloaded OS, still have this problem