FIX: Visual InterDev Returns Generic "Unable to Contact Web Server" Error (261152)

SYMPTOMS

When it creates a new project, Visual InterDev 6.0 uses the Web Project Wizard to gather the necessary information to create the project. If an error is encountered within the Wizard, the following error message may appear after you specify the Web server name and click Next in step 1 of the Wizard:

Unable to contact web server <http://servername>

CAUSE

When the Wizard encounters an error, it does not send the actual error message for the error that occurs. The Wizard's built-in error handling functionality was designed to send the generic error message described in the "Symptoms" section of this article.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.

For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed

To download the latest Visual Studio service pack, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

220166 PRB: Troubleshooting 'Unable to Contact Web Server' in Visual InterDev

192638 PRB: Web Server Related Errors on Multi-Processor Machine

195954 PRB: 'Unable to Contact Web Server' Error Creating New Project

194798 PRB: Cannot Create Disk-based Web App or Unable to Contact Web