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: 
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.
For me, the problem was that I was viewing the .svc file using my local file path mapped to a server in my browser when I meant to be using the verbatim path to my server.