Monochrome cannot be found

bpl · September 27th, 2010, 12:01 PM

I finished work with the book "Beginning ASP.NET 3.5" several month ago.
But now, when I try to create or open any my own application, I get error:
Monochrome cannot be found in the application or global theme directories.
(C:\BegASPNET\Release\web.config line 85)

I deleted from IE cookies and temporary internet files, but still get this error.
Please help.

Imar · September 27th, 2010, 02:58 PM

Hi there,

Where / when do you get this error? Do you have something like <pages theme="Monochrome" ... /> in your site's web.config file?

Imar

bpl · September 27th, 2010, 04:05 PM

I created brand new web site with new web.config, so there is no Monochrome theme in web.config.
Something happenned with my Visual Studio 2008 environment after I finished to work with Planet Wrox program and as result, all my programs looking now C:\WebASPNET\Release\web. config file instead of their own web.config. Might be, global.asax file was changed during my job with Planet Wrox, which could cause this problem? But I did not find global.asax file in my windows\microsoft.net\framework\v3.5 folder and subfolders to check it.
If I can't find reason, might be I need reinstall Visual Studio 2008 to fix problem?
All my another environments on this PC, Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2005 works fine.

Imar · September 28th, 2010, 03:45 AM

Hi there,

Not sure what you mean with this:

Quote:

all my programs looking now C:\WebASPNET\Release\web. config file instead of their own web.config.

When / where? In Visual Studio? At run-time? Using IIS or the built-in web server? Can you describe the behavior in more detail?

Maybe this is just a template issue where the initial site is not correct? Try resetting your templates as explained here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=VS.90).aspx

Cheers,

Imar

bpl · September 28th, 2010, 09:19 AM

Imar,

I found the problem. After you asked me if I using IIS or the built-in web server, I found that built-in web server works fine and error was only when using IIS.
In chapter 18: "Deploying Your Web Site" when installing and configuring ASP.NET, on page 648, according to your book, I changed in IIS server Default Web Site in Home Directory tab Local Path from c:\Inetpub\wwwroot to C:BegASPNET\Release and forgot to change back to c:\Inetpub\wwwroot after I finished work with Planet WROX. That is why
for all my programs when running with IIS default path still was C:\BegASPNET\Release instead of c:\Inetpub\wwwroot. After I changed back everything works fine.
Thank you for your help!

Imar · September 28th, 2010, 10:29 AM

That makes sense; thanks for posting a follow up.

Cheers,

Imar