Stephen Lacy » Troubleshooting

Custom Control won’t trigger Update Panel

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:00:20 +0000

I was using the __dopostback function in asp.net to cause a postback that would trigger an update in an updatepanel where relevant.

If you come across this problem make sure that your custom control implements the INamingContainer as well as the IPostBackEventHandler interfaces

Also make sure that your first argument to the __dopostback function is the unique id of your custom control (this.UniqueId)

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Calendar Extender arrows in IE8 bug

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:21:33 +0000

.ajax__calendar_title

{width:150px; margin:auto; padding:3px;}

Taken from here: http://forums.asp.net/p/1395899/3000757.aspx

If you are finding that you can’t click on the arrows on the Calendar Extender in IE 8 try using the following css.

.ajax__calendar_title{width:150px; margin:auto; padding:3px;}

It stops the calendar title from extending over the arrows.

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Can't Register Javascript for Invisible Control

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:04:05 +0000

I was writing an ASP.Net Dialog Control and I overwrote the Visible property to mean does the Dialog Control get displayed on the page initally, this defaulted to false.

Later on I discovered that I couldn’t seem to register any javascript from the control. Turns out that it wasn’t being registered because of the lack of visibility. .Net was treating it like an on/off switch even though I’d told it not to. It’s things like this that make me want to use ASP.Net MVC.

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Web Deployment Project IIS Deploy error on Team Foundation Server

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:49:34 +0000

I got the following on build until recently.

Initializing IIS Web Server... Successfully created virtual directory 'ycmbuild'. Granting IIS read access to the folder 'C:\Projects\YourClubMatters\Trunk\YCM\WebSite_deploy\Release'. C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\WebDeployment\v9.0\Microsoft.WebDeployment.targets(676,5): error : Some or all identity references could not be translated. Warning: Unable to grant IIS access to folder 'C:\Projects\YourClubMatters\Trunk\YCM\WebSite_deploy\Release'. Done building project "WebSite_deploy.wdproj". ========== Rebuild All: 7 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

The solution for me was to stop the web deployment project from creating the iis virtual directory, make a virtual directory pointing at say “c:\inetpub\vdir”, give the application pool it belongs to the same rights as the tfservice, edit team build project file adding a task that shuts down the parent website of the virtual directory, deletes all subdirectories and files in “c:\inetpub\vdir”, copies the published website that the deployment project creates to “c:\inetpub\vdir” and starts the parent website of the virtual directory.

I’m sure there are other solutions, I found that to be the simplest. Also, I used SDC Tasks to do all of this, very simple stuff.

What you add the the .proj file looks like this:

Name="AfterCompile">
.WebSite.Stop Description="Default Website" />
.CleanFolder Path="c:\inetpub\vdir" force="true"/>
.CopyFolder Source="$(SolutionRoot)\..\Binaries\Release\_PublishedWebsites\WebSite_Deploy" Destination="c:\inetpub\vdir" />
.WebSite.Start Description="Default Website" />
>

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Web Authoring Component fails to install

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:31:07 +0000

If you come across this problem I suggest the First thing you try is to check the intall file integrity.

I came across this problem and couldn’t find any solution to it, turns out I only had the first half of the ISO. The Web Authoring Component is in the latter half.

I only noticed once I tried to extract the ISO using 7-zip (Free, Open Source, No Nag Screen) and only one file came out.

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No Directory Listing on Windows 2003 server FTP

admin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:39:59 +0000

Was trying to get windows ftp to work yesterday for an hour or so. I could connect to the server but could not get a directory listing. I narrowed down the problem to the firewall, I could get a directory listing locally but nothing externally. Turns out its not just sufficient to open port 21 on the firewall. You have to do the following

Open the Windows firewall settings
Click the Advanced tab
Click the top settings button
Check the box that says FTP Server
Click OK
Click OK

That should work then.

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