Due to some strange problem with Internet Information Services, or the
FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions, or some vestigial junk from SharePoint, I
am unable to create a web application in Visual Studio .NET 2003, and unable
to create a new web site in FrontPage 2003.  I have uninstalled and
reinstalled every possibly relevant bit of software I can think of (short of
Windows XP Professional), including Visual Studio, FrontPage, Internet
Information Services, the FrontPage Server Extensions (plain and 2002), and
the SharePoint Portal 2001 Server Client software (currently uninstalled).
I have uninstalled, repaired, and reinstalled several of these components
more than once.  Nothing is solving the problem, including a several days
discussion with an MVP on the
Microsoft.Public.FrontPage.Extensions.WindowsNT newsgroup.  So I'd be very
appreciative if any of you can suggest something else I might try.



Symptoms are these:



1. In Visual Studio, upon the attempt to create a new web application
project, the system simply hangs while displaying the Create New Web
progress dialog:



Creating the web 'http://localhost/WebApplication1'



2. In FrontPage 2003, upon the attempt to create a new one page website, I
get the following error message:



----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------

An error occurred accessing your Windows SharePoint Services site files.
Authors - if authoring against a Web server, please contact the Webmaster
for this server's Web site.  WebMasters - please see the server's
application event log for more details.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------



Regrettably, the application event log sheds no light, showing no entries
resulting from the attempt to create a site.



If I then launch the IIS management console, a red stop sign marked "Error"
shows up next to the Default Web Site, but I do not know how to get
information about what specific error causes that icon to display.  If I run
"Check Server Extensions", the response is "No problems found."  If I run
"Check Server Extensions 2002", Internet Explorer attempts to display the
page



http://dim4300/_vti_bin/_vti_adm/fp...page=health.htm



but that just hangs with the green progress bar at the bottom of the screen
chugging away and getting nowhere.  During some phases of my efforts to fix
this problem, the progress bar has run to completion, presenting simply a
blank page in IE.  Uninstalling and reinstalling the FrontPage Server
Extensions 2002 and/or IIS does not solve the problem.



As I say, I would really appreciate some assistance with this problem.  I've
been banging away at it for almost a week now.



Greg Dunn

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