Posted on: 11/30/2014 4:50:48 PM | Views : 769

Hi there,
New to ASP.NET (coming from classic ASP experience 10 years old) and I am working through several current books on the subject. After completing a course on C# and another about ASP.NET 4.5 and VS 2012, I'm trying to build a simple test site on my local machine. Using Windows 7 Ultimate, IE 10 and VS 2013 Express for Web.
I started a new empty project so that I could take things one step at a time because I expect to encounter problems. My first few attempts at publishing a web site to my local machine under IIS 7 work, but they were merely html pages.  Then I added an aspx page that did nothing more than display an <h3> tag which also worked.
Then I built a simple master page titled "Master1.master" and put it in a folder named "masters" and then published the same site to my localhost. As soon as I try to load the only page that refers to the master page, an exception is thrown saying & ...

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