Common ASP.NET Problems (together in one post)

1.  You have IIS and ASP.NET 1.1 running OK. Now you want to run ASP.NET 2.0 for one webfolder with 1.1 running remaining site. You started getting “Failed to access IIS metabase”.

Solution :  Run aspnet_regiis in asp.net 2.0 folder

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727> aspnet_regiis -ga ASPNET

Then reset IIS

2.  How to Validate People Name

Using Regular Expression Validator and expression is  ^[a-zA-Z''-'\s]{1,60}$

Full code of validator is as follows:

<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID=”Regularexpressionvalidator1″ runat=”server” Display=”Dynamic” ControlToValidate=”txtName” ErrorMessage=”Invalid Name.” ValidationExpression=”^[a-zA-Z''-'\s]{1,60}$”></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>