Creation of the virtual directory failed issue whle opening the older version projects in VS2017[solved]
I attempted to load the new VS2015 project in VS2017, but it immediately failed to load.and i am getting below error popup Creation of the virtual directory http://localhost:32999/ failed with the error: Filename: redirection.config Error: Cannot read configuration file there are two solution for this issue 1) Renaming applicationhost.config : Close VS2017 Go into folder %userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\config Rename applicationhost.config Restart VS and load the solution/project VS should have recreated applicationhost.config, and project should load 2) Copy config files to IISExpress directory copy all files from C:\Program Files\IIS Express\config\templates\PersonalWebServer to %userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\config any of above solution will resolve your problem..