Question: (Warning - asp newbie) I have an aspx file with the tag

```
    <%@ Page Language=VB  ... %>

```

right at the beginning of the file.

When calling this from my IIS server (<http://localhost/myservice/default.aspx>), this gives me the error 

> 
> This page contains the following
>  errors: 
> 
> 
> error on line 1 at column 2:
>  StartTag: invalid element name  
> 
>  Below is a rendering of the page up to
>  the first error.
> 
> 
> 

What am I doing wrong?

Answer: 
It appears as if the browser tries to display what it thinks is an XML file, since it gives an error on the second character of the first line. So I think the file is not parsed, but simply returned as is immediately. Check if your IIS server is configured correctly and that it actually parses your ASP tags before returning the page.
Similar to the previous comment, in my setup too the ASP.NET version was not selected. But after selecting the version i got the following error while accessing the aspx file.
Windows XP, IIS 5.1.
Exception Details: System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironmentException: Failed to access IIS metabase. 

Executed the following commands, aspnet\_iis -i
and aspnet\_iis -ga 

resolved the issue.