title: How to make a .net web application run as the root application in Visual Studio
body: <p>I've been converting some .net "Web Sites" to "Web Applications".  This has been going along smoothly.  One of the steps that I perform each time I do a conversion is I go to the web section of the project properties and set the virtual directory.</p>
  
  <p>So far, I've set up<br>
  -<a href="http://localhost/site1" rel="noreferrer">http://localhost/site1</a><br>
  -<a href="http://localhost/site2" rel="noreferrer">http://localhost/site2</a><br>
  -<a href="http://localhost/site3" rel="noreferrer">http://localhost/site3</a></p>
  
  <p>Finally, I've received the task of performing a Web Site -> Web Application conversion on the web site that resides on the root directory of our servers.  However, if I specify <a href="http://localhost/" rel="noreferrer">http://localhost/</a> as the virtual directory in Visual Studio, it results in an error.  How do I go about converting the root web site to a web application project in Visual Studio?</p>