GETTING STARTED - WHAT SHOULD THE FOLDER STRUCTURE BE FOR VISUAL STUDIO?

Just in case no one notices the previous post, I did another one.
Has anyone really loaded this project themselves into Visual Studio without having to work out how to modify everything to work?

I have unzipped the rar, set the nopCommerceStore to be an application (this is not documented anywhere at all) and
opened the solution file in Visual Studio. It does not work.
I get the same error others complain about, and no answers to their questions either, except some guy who wants to make quote or something (I doubt he knows, otherwise he would have answered the question on the forum).

Talia,
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Here is the error:

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level.  This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.

Source Error:


Line 91:       </expressionBuilders>
Line 92:     </compilation>
Line 93:     <authentication mode="Forms">
Line 94:       <forms name="NOPCOMMERCE.AUTH" loginUrl="~/Login.aspx" protection="All" timeout="43200" path="/" requireSSL="false" slidingExpiration="true" defaultUrl="~/default.aspx" enableCrossAppRedirects="false"/>
Line 95:     </authentication>


Source File: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\nopCommerce\nopcommercestore\web.config    Line: 93

What version of Visual Studio are you using and how exactly are you trying to open the solution?

Is the NopCommerceStore project set as Startup Project (is the project name in bold)?

We use Visual Studio 2008 (Team System edition) on several computers (Win XP, Win 7) and have no problems with opening the solution file. We just open it and run the project.