I have been developing databases for years, but I am new to web development. I built a website using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition with VB code behind pages and deployed it to a web server. When I open the site in debug mode through the Web Developer everything works fine. When opening the site using IE, the buttons work, but when I click on other controls like linkbuttons and listboxes, nothing happens. I've searched the internet for solutions but couldn't find anything. Any hints as to what might be happening would be greatly appreciated.

What do you mean "nothing happens". Do you have methods in place to handle these events?

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Here is the code for the Click event of the linkbutton, "lnkEditTables". It simply opens a page called "EditTables". As an experiment, I added a button control, "button1" with the exact same code - and it works, while the linkbutton does not:

Protected Sub lnkEditTables_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles lnkEditTables.Click
        Response.Redirect("EditTables.aspx")
End Sub

I noticed that if I place my mouse over the IE title bar after clicking the link, I get an hourglass as if something has hung.

Have you put a break point in your code behind to see what happens when you click on the linkbutton?

Also, in the properties window for the linkbutton, does it associate your method with its Click event?



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Yes, in debug mode I have stepped through the code and it works as expected - the EditTables.aspx page opens. The problem only occurs when opening the website using Internet Explorer in production. Am I correct that it is not possible to set a breakpoint in the deployed website running in production where debug="false" in Web.config? I should note that the problem has occurred only in production with every link button and list box in my project (20 or so), but not in debug mode. The button controls work fine in both debug mode and in production. The click events are associated with the correct method for every control.

Yes, when the debug switch is set to false no symbols are loaded for your project so you can not step through it.

What doesn't make sense to me is that in debug mode your LinkButtons work fine but in Production they just stop working. Imar or Peter may have an idea as to what the problem is, but I do not. Thats down right strange.

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I agree. Thanks for trying. How would I contact Imar or Peter? Thanks again.

Well, you could wait for them to see this particular thread or you could send them a message through the forum. Imar's user name is Imar and peter's is planoie.

My suggestion would be, if you send them a message, to just say that I thought they may be of some help with your problem and give them a link to this thread. (No sense in rehashing your problem in email)

hth.

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This is definitely a strange problem.

Have you tried assemblies compiled in debug mode on production? I'm not clear if you tried this or not. I think when you refer to "debug" you mean on your development machine.

This sounds like a core ASP.NET issue. Can you compare the rendered output of the page in development with that of production to verify that everything is rendering correctly? Is the right version of ASP.NET selected on the server application? Are other postbacks firing correctly?

What about if you create a very simple page with a couple different controls and see if some simple operations work so you can rule out a fundamental problem.

-Peter

What is the difference between your debug and production environment?

Could it just be that in the browser you use to access your production environment JavaScript is disabled?

Imar

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