FIX: Contacting Web Server to Open Web Project Never Times Out

• Microsoft Visual InterDev, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

When trying to reopen your Web project after shutting down the Web server, you will get an hourglass that never seems to timeout, and you cannot cancel the search for the server.

CAUSE

The Web server is still running, but extremely slow.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a Web project on another server.



2. Close the Web project.



3. Turn off the Web server.



4. Open the project.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbservicepack kbVisID600bug kbWebServer kbGrpASP kbVS600sp2 kbVS600SP1 kbVS600sp3fix
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug