Error after 1st exercise chapter 10

Wolfman2500 · May 15th, 2012, 02:16 PM

Hi,

In Chapter 10, I tried the first exercise. Step 6 says that I have to save the changes and open the page (UpdatePanel.aspx) in my browser. But then I got this error:

Server Error in '/' Application.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Stack Trace:

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
MasterPages_Frontend.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) +227
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +91
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +74
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +146
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +2207

I deleted the UpdatePanel.aspx page from the project but still I get the same error, no matter which page I try to view in the browser. I found out it has something to do with this line in the code behind the masterpage:

Select Case Page.Theme.ToLower

Until this exercise this code worked fine, but now it doesn't anymore, maybe I accidently changed something when I tried to insert the label and button control in this exercise? Can someone help me?

Imar · May 15th, 2012, 04:09 PM

Hi there,

Did you remove the theme attribute from the web.config file by accident?

Imar

Wolfman2500 · May 15th, 2012, 04:30 PM

Yes, there was no theme in the web config file.

I had this code:

Code:

<pages>
        <controls>
          <add tagPrefix="Wrox" tagName="Banner" src="~/Controls/Banner.ascx"/>
        </controls>
      </pages>

After I changed it to this:

Code:

<pages theme="Monochrome">
        <controls>
          <add tagPrefix="Wrox" tagName="Banner" src="~/Controls/Banner.ascx"/>
        </controls>
      </pages>

It works again! Thank you very much!

cinco · September 7th, 2012, 05:59 PM

It has been a while since I have had time to come back to this book. I left off at Chapter 15. Now that I started back up I had this same issue. None of my websites were working and I was getting this same error.

I had to add the code

Code:

 <pages theme="Monochrome">

and now it works? How did this get removed from my web.config file? Everything worked before...I come back after a few weeks and it wasn't working.

Imar · September 8th, 2012, 04:26 AM

The theme is set by a cookie, so maybe you don't have one, or your browser doesn't accept them? (Or it had expired?).

The theme in web.config like in your code serves as the default theme for visitors that don't have a theme cookie (yet).

Hope this helps,

Imar