I am trying to develop a dnn website, but can't even get started! I've read a lot of the documentation, and in the past have built a simple dnn website, but this time it's not going well. Here's my situation:

I have VS2008 on Vista Home Premium on an HP tx2000 laptop. Also have MS SqlExpress installed. I am running as an administrator.

I downloaded the latest dnn starter edition and installed it, which seemed to go fine.

I then started VS and created a new dnn website using the installed template. I specified .net2.0 and a location of "file system". This also seemed to go fine.

I then do Ctrl-F5 to build the website. It seems to build just fine, but when it starts up the browser to connect to the new website, the browser windows says "Cannot display the webpage"! help!

I tried creating a simple .net web application using the "ASP.Net website" template built into VS2008 and it works fine, and the webpage connects right away.

I havent used Vista much (only had this laptop about 2 months) and have used VS2008 even less. The last dnn webiste I built was on WinXP and VS2005, but unfortunately, that system is far, far away at the moment.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

If you are interested in building a web site and not in developing modules, you DO NOT need to be using Visual Studio at all!

Just install DotNetNuke and create an IIS website that points to it.  If you Google, you'll also find some other great tutorials and blogs that show you how to install DotNetNuke.  With the new Wizard, the installation process is nearly pain free.

Thanks Michael, I did look at that, but I'd rather not use IIS if I can make it work using only the development server. This poor laptop also runs Apache for a different project.

Gary