Visual Studio used to have a 'open web site' option. I need this for an older website so I went to the VS installer and added it. Now I try to use 'open web site', and I get the message: "configuring IIS Express failed with the following error: Filename redirection.config, Error cannot read configuration file. " I did reinstall IIS Express using the VS installer. 'redirection.config' does exist. But my project doesn't load (it gets unloaded).
The history of this project is odd, at one point I tried to resurrect it by making it as a new web-app, and so it has some files from that effort that an older project would not have (like bundle.config).
There were problems with the modern version of Visual Studio, for instance, old VS projects allowed pages to inherit from classes in 'App_code' and new projects do not. Anyway, assuming I want to get this project working as a website (the old way), how do I do that?