"VirtualPath was outside the current application root" VS2013 ASP.Net error

If you are working on ASP.NET application running under IIS with Visual Studio 2013 IDE, when you open the application in browser  you may get the error message "VirtualPath was outside the current application root”.

This only happens when Visual Studio 2013 is open. To resolve this issue, deselect “Enable Browser Link” option inside Visual Studio as shown in the below image

Browser Link is just a channel between your Visual Studio IDE and any open browser. This will allow dynamic data exchange between your web application and Visual Studio.

More details on this feature is available here.

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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released!

Microsoft releases it's visual studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 on 15th Aug 2012.

The latest release of Visual Studio has the following features

1) Development for Windows 8
2) Lastest Advances in ASP.NET including web optimization improvements (minification and bundling), new templates, HTML & CSS editor improvements, page inspector, and new publishing tools
3) Development for Windows Phone 8
4) Development for Windows Azure

You can find in the stores from the next month.

You can download from below sources
a) For MSDN Subscribers, MSDN Subscriber Download Page.
b) For volume licensing customers, Volume Licensing Service Center.
c) Free Express product, from Visual Studio product website

Or you can Purchase through the, Visual Studio product website.

The new features on these are explained in the links
1) Visual Studio 2012
2) What's New in Visual Studio 2012
3) Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released to the web!
4) Quick tour of Visual Studio 2012

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