Ok this gets filed under idiotic things that took way longer to figure out than should have. I had a code file from another programmer that I was going to pull into Visual Studio and work off of. I went New > Project > ASP.NET Web Application then I added ‘Existing Items’ to my Solution. I go to do a build, and I get back 57 errors. What the what? All the ASP.NET controls are showing up as unrecognized with that nice error message saying “The name xxx does not exist in the current context.” After trying several fruitless things, I saw an option under my right click on the solution that said “Convert to Web Application.” Punched it, rebuilt the project and it is now error free. Its always the simplest things that get me.
