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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I believe this was a problem for some .NET web extensions installs in the 0.91 release, but I just ran into it on a fresh install of 1.0 on Windows 2000 Server IIS. The symptoms: when running the sample .NET application, you get the following error (you may first have to turn on custom errors in a web.config file):</FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT SIZE=6 FACE="Times New Roman">Server Error in '/mapguide/dotnetviewersample' Application. </FONT></B>
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<P><B><I><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Times New Roman">The path '/mapguide/dotnetviewersample/App_GlobalResources/' maps to a directory outside this application, which is not supported.</FONT></I><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Arial">Description:</FONT></B> <FONT FACE="Arial">An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.<BR>
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</FONT><B><FONT FACE="Arial">Exception Details:</FONT></B> <FONT FACE="Arial">System.Web.HttpException: The path '/mapguide/dotnetviewersample/App_GlobalResources/' maps to a directory outside this application, which is not supported.<BR>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Either the web extensions installer or IIS adds a backslash to the main application definition in IIS. In IIS, right-click on the mapguide virtual directory, go to Properties, and then look at the local path value. If you are getting this error, it will probably read: C:\Program Files\MapGuideOpenSource\WebServerExtensions\www\. Delete the final backslash after www and that should fix the problem.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Andy Morsell, P.E.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Spatial Integrators, Inc.</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="http://www.SpatialGIS.com"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">http://www.SpatialGIS.com</FONT></U></A>
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