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Re: A name was started with an invalid character

Stormy22 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:44:16 GMT

Its very easy to fix this problem.

Go into your web site properties and see what version of ASP.NET you are using. If its 1.1, you need to change the <%@ Page %>

directive to use Codebehind="...". If its ASP.NET 2.0 or later, you need to use Codefile="..." and remove the Inherits="" phrase. Thats it! Most people are switching framework versions on different servers and are not make this change at the top of their ASPX pages. - www.stormdetector.com

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

DuffyN — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:52:19 GMT

Sharris solution worked for me. No version of ASP.NET was selected in the properties tab on the virtual directory for the website on the server. I am very thankful for these forums and need to contribute. This would take 4096 years w/o these forums!

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

narendersinghkahlon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:47:20 GMT

hi,

Try this solution hope this will work for u.

http://an-it-solution.blogspot.com/2008/12/name-was-started-with-invalid-character.html

Thanks,

Narender

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

skamin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:25:32 GMT

Works for me ... thanks Peg

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

Lukmaan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:48:35 GMT

Hi PigasuZ,

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis -i

I did that. Now it is showing "Unrecognized configuration section 'connectionStrings' ".I am using IIS 5.1 and I have both Frame work 1.1 and 2.0. Awaiting your reply

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

drobertsaspnet — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:26:31 GMT

I remember an issue when I first started using WCF services on my XP box. I had to go into iis and map the .svc extension appropriately so iis knew what to do with it.

I recently had to do this again after installing the VS2008 SP1.

Its worth the effort to see if your file mappings in IIS are correct.

Hope this helps

Darrell

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

damole — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:09:48 GMT

I tried this and it worked, thanks!

It is helpful to shut down all the browsers trying to access that script and stop and restart IIS. Maybe not necessary but helped me.

Good luck

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

arti.manathkar — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:20:26 GMT

Actually when i run my project on localhost , it is running but if i give the Machine ip address in stead of localhostit is giving error like" name was started with an invalid character" please guide me regarding this...

Thanks if any help is found

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

MarcRosoe — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:34:56 GMT

I also have the same issue. I have tryed to reinstall IIS and ASP.NET 2.0 also did the aspnet_regiis -i and -e to not avail.

I am running server 2003 with IIS 6.0.

I am trying to open the website VIA local path \\HOST\inetput\wwwroot\default.aspx

Any other suggestions?

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

sonaliagrawal — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:53:22 GMT

I have tried everything that you have mentioned here.. It does not work for me. Please help!

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

shahrinn — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:56:30 GMT

thanks sharris it's work for me

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

sharris — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:26:15 GMT

This happened to me using VS Web Dev Express.

I was able to fix it by going into IIS, then the properties of the site, ASP.NET TAB.

The ASP.NET Version was blank in the drop down for some reason. Once I selected I was able to resolve it.

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

tgardner — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:31:44 GMT

I encountered the same problem - one of these two responses may fix the problem. Check to see if the problem persists on another machine. I found that it only existed on my development machine.

Case sensitivity

http://professionalaspnet.com/blogs/aspnet_blog/archive/2006/04/07/A-name-was-started-with-an-invalid-character-Error-processing-resource.aspx

Development Machine vs regular user

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892951

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

MorningZ — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:58:54 GMT

** edit **

Sorry, i didn't notice this was the issue tracker forum (came right to this topic from a google hit)... i posted it in the general forum instead

Re: A name was started with an invalid character

docluv — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:25:10 GMT

Check out this Blog, it may be a case sensative thing.

http://professionalaspnet.com/blogs/aspnet_blog/archive/2006/04/07/A_name_was_started_with_an_invalid_character_Error_processing_resource.aspx