hi,

i have several web forms in a project that work perfectly well locally, but gives me a parser error about "couldn't load type 'blabla'" where 'blabla' is the class in the codebehind file. since everything works on my laptop both when requesting it via localhost/ and via my outbound ip address, i suspect this might be something caused by changes in iis made by vwd2008.

 does anyone have an idea of what these changes might be, and where i could make them on the server as well? it is a server that i have full admin access to, so configuring things in iis is not a problem.

 br/bm

I assume you work on the Web site on your laptop and then deploy pages to a remote server. Does remote server have .NET 3.5 installed?

no, the .net version is 2.0.xxxxxxx on both machines. (yes, i still work in vwd 2008, but i deliberately chose not to install 3.5 because i had several other sites coded for 2.0.)

the weird thing is that not all pages give this error, and i can't find any difference between the source code in the pages. do you know what to look for?

VWD 2008 requires 3.5 framework to function properly. You can choose not to target 3.5 when you create Web site and rather target 2.0, but 3.5 must be installed for VWD to work.

i have now uninstalled vwd2008 and .Net 3.5, and installed vwd2005 instead. i rebuilt the page in 2005, uploaded a new file to the server, but i still get the same error. and this time i'm positive the two machines are running 2.0.xxxxxxx, so it's not an error caused by that. what else could i look for?

 thanks for your tries to help me so far, by the way. i appreciate it.

What exactly the type it cannot load? Perhaps something installed on your laptop in GAC that is not installed on the server?

it is the class in my codebehind which i want the page to inherit:

 default.aspx, line 1:

<%@ Page CodeFile="default.aspx.vb" Inherits="default" EnableViewState="false" %>

the first few lines of default.aspx.vb, in the same directory:

What does the error sa exactly? I.e. what is name of the type that fails to load?

since it concens several different web forms it is not always the same, but one example is a type called 'clsRSS', both in the inherits attribute of the page and in the code module. another one is simply called 'login'.

hi again - just bumping this up a little, since i need pretty urgent help. i'll provide two sample code snippets, exactly as they look on a web form that works perfectly well on my local machine, but gives a parser error on the server:

first line of ~/predikan/default.aspx :

<%@ Page Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/masterpage.master" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="default.aspx.vb" Inherits="predikan_download_default" title="BK3 - Ladda ner f?rkunnelse" %>

first lines of ~/predikan/rss/default.aspx.vb :

 Inherits attribute and partial class name are different while they must match.

haha - i don't know how i managed to miss that...

...however, the problem persists although the class names are corrected (they're both called predikan_default now)...

i also tried precompiling all .vb files in the project and put the output file in the bin folder on the server, but that didn't solve the problem either.

turned out the problem wasn't .net 3, but the fact that my server was running a beta version of 2.0. installed a real 2.0 version and went back to 2005 (waiting for 3.5 to become more stable), and now everything works fine.