I just installed Visual Web Developer Express and wrote a couple lines of C# code to test things out. It ran fine and rendered in my browser. I used the "Copy Website" feature to deploy the app and try it live. I am getting "The page cannot be displayed". The Event Viewer logs the following error every time I attempt to view the page:

"The server failed to load application '/LM/W3SVC'. The error was 'The specified metadata was not found."

I have Googled this and been on several forums and pretty much everything I have read indicated that my .NET 2.0 framework is corrupt or IIS is corrupt. I tried to uninstall SQL Server 2005 Express and had a number of errors and it would not uninstall. I removed VWD and the .NET 2.0 framework. Also uninstalled IIS. Re-installed everything except SQL because it won't uninstall.

This is all being installed on a brand new laptop with a fresh install of XP.

Any suggestions on what I can do to get this product installed properly

Thank you!

Brian