title: How to edit a file in Visual Studio from an FTP site?
body: <p>I am having trouble opening file from an FTP site in Visual Studio.  I do the following:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>File/Open</li>
  <li>Type in the ftp.foo.com, Enter</li>
  <li>Type in credentials (tell it to remember them) into a dialog box that comes up.</li>
  <li>Navigate to a file (called orientation.htm), select it, press Open</li>
  <li>Then I get this error.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ciyx8.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something simple here?  Fails on both VS2012 and VS2013.</p>