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Posted 7/23/2008 8:58:10 AM

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Hi Drew,

Thanks for reporting the problem. I'll see what I can do to recreate the crash.

Does the crash occur if you add the control to an <ext:Panel>? Please try with adding the Panel as the only Coolite control on the Page (other than ScriptManager), then add the ESRI to the <Content> template. As well, please ensure the Icon property has not been set on the Panel.
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Posted 7/23/2008 9:47:43 AM

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Geoffery, thanks for the quick reply.

I started with a clean page, added a script manager, ext coolite panel and my ESRI map control and it did crash.

I tried a work around by adding the map control programatically and its almost looking right, but I think i have some CSS work to get it positioned correctly.


Drew

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Posted 7/24/2008 2:06:32 AM

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Hi Drew,

Could you contact me (geoff [at] coolite [dot] com) off list and we'll work through debugging the conflict? I tried to find a demo version to test with but nothing seems to available. Anyways, shoot me an email. Once we narrow down and/or fix the problem we can update this thread.
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Posted 7/28/2008 11:50:29 AM

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I have been able to determine what is causing Visual Studio
to crash on me.

Its something that is linked with IE's Script Debugger.

When I Disable the IE Script debugger through Tools -> Internet
Options -> Advanced -> (Browsing) Disable Script Debugging Coolite
works great with my other 3rd party controls when in VS design view.

Even Visual Studio 2008 just seems smoother when transitioning better markup
and design view.



Hopefully this can help someone or the developers.



Drew

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Posted 7/28/2008 12:25:00 PM

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Hi Drew,

Very interesting find. I'll do some research and see if I can figure out why the two might be linked. Thanks for taking the time to post your findings.
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Posted 7/28/2008 12:35:45 PM

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Update:
It worked for about 40 minutes.
Its crashing again :-)

Darn!

Drew

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Posted 8/1/2008 1:41:18 PM

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I've been doing some testing and I have a theory (80% confident) about what might be causing the crash with some 3rd party controls. I think it's a file locking problem when two assemblies try to access the Web.config file at (or about) the same time. The web.config file is locked when another assembly tries to read and Visual Studio can not recover.

Now, we're doing some funky stuff (non API) to read/write values to the web.config (some during design-time) and other assemblies might be trying the same trick.

The fix is easy, although it means developers would have to manually copy/paste one line to the Web.config <httpHandlers> section if they want the "Clean Url" formatting and automatic Gzip compression featuers. Obviously not a big deal, but it is one step that I would rather avoid having to encourage developers to do. By handling this automatically I feel it saves a lot of inconveinice for developers, but... any crashing is obviously not acceptable.

Wether this is a Visual Studio bug or not, we have to deal with finding a solution.

We're providing an extremely "rich" design time experience and because we're pushing the limits we're also treading in some unknown territory. The crashing appears to only affect the DESIGN TIME rendering in Visual Studio and it only appears to be a problem when the assembly is used in conjunction with some 3rd party assemblies. We haven't experienced any crashing lately when using the Coolite Toolkit by itself or with any Microsoft controls (ajax or oldschool).  There have been no other reports of crashing, other than Drew's above which I think is web.config related.

Thanks to anyone who's helped with constructive feedback. I'll keep this thread updated with our progess.
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