hello
when i run application by using http://localhost/thephile
i recived the follwing error

Server Error in '/ThePhile' Application.
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Parser Error
Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'Wrox.ThePhile.Web.Global'.

Source Error:


Line 1: <%@ Application Codebehind="Global.asax.cs" Inherits="Wrox.ThePhile.Web.Global" %>

what is the problem ??




Source File: C:\wrox\ThePhile\global.asax Line: 1

I recieved this same error when I attempt to build the solution from scratch on my own. I not positive but I am pretty sure it has something to do with name spaces and ouput directories. I really wish they would have been much clearer on this in the book. I think the biggest complain I have seen is the lack of detail they have spent on this section.

I understand what you're saying Steve. I think the problem is that they misjudged their target audience a bit (not really their fault).

They assumed that only experienced .NET programmers would buy the book, and they should understand deployment and configuration issues. This might have been a valid assumption, EXCEPT that there's a big weakness in beginner books. Most beginner books do NOT conver an adequate amount of detail on configuration and deployment. So, people who have completed a beginner book still may not be ready for this book.

I strongly support the idea of a book series. If the same authors would make a 2 or 3 book series, they could start with the basics, and then take people all the way up to mid-or advanced-level and make sure they cover all of the related issues along the way. In their advanced book they would know for sure what the readers background is because they would have written the beginner book themselves!

There's a ton on books on ASP.NET, but I haven't seen a single book series of this nature. People are getting inconsistent training because the lack of an in-depth book series.

I'm thinking of a college and how they teach material. They coordinate their 100, 200, and 300 level classes so that they fit together without holes. If you finish a 100-level class, then the teacher of the 200-level class knows exactly what you have convered, and they can pick you up from there and move you forward. You can move up in a consitent way and their won't be any gaps.

Eric

But how to solute this problem?

I just answered a similar question in another topic. I think your references are screwed-up. This may have happened when you upgraded the solution to VS2003 - did you delete the .dll and .pdb files first?

Eric

Yes,I have upgraded the solution when I opened the files with VS2003 automaticly.Maybe that changed something ,right?

And what and where the .dll,.pdb should I delete.

Thank you for your answer.

You need to find them with the Windows Explorer Search function. There's a lot of them.

This will quickly break your references (they weren't working, anyway), so you're going to have some work ahead of you to refresh all the references. You do a "Rebuild All", and then it stops when it finds broken references. You refresh those bad ones, and continue with another "Rebuild All". This has to be done again several times, until you don't get any more errors.

I wish Wrox would post a version of this project for VS 2003.

Eric