ASP.NET - trouble shooting guide? Beginners FAQ?

[neil]

Can someone tell me if there are any good sites out there to help with error messages?

[chris9902]

ASP.NET (http://www.asp.net)

[neil]

thanks chris,

I already registered on the forum there and I've had one reply to my post, but I can't seem to find where that error was coming from now and I'm just trying to suss out "Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0. " .

There's a lot in the beginners guide which basically I don't really need to read now (or have time to - but i probably will have to eand up reading anyway). I have a content manament system which we know functions already, It works on the server I just can't get it to work on my localhost, once its working on my machine though then I'll be free to make changes (visual and ) to the code.

[neil]

i just noticed I don't have the clr debugger on my machine, so I' downloading the SDK (i think i only downloaded the framework before, but I'm not sure).

Does that have the CLR debugger in, or any other stuff that might help me?

also, whats this "ASP.NET Web Matrix" thing, is it any good do you know?

Cheers Neil

[chris9902]

it is excellent,

it is like Dreamweaver and Frontpage but it is only for ASP.NET and ASP coders. also it has a fantastic WYSIWYG thing.

and it is FREE... Microsoft + Free = :eek:

DOWNLOAD IT!

[chris9902]

Also, i know you have a localhost now.

but if you sign-up for this free hosting from the same people who gave you the ASP matrix you can FTP to it with the Matrix thing. i have both for testing and they are very very good.

http://europe.webmatrixhosting.net/

[neil]

nice one

I'll get on that now,

I've been trying to download the SDK and i keep getting cyclic redundancy error when it tries to copy itself to my hard drive, do you know of a work around for this?

Cheers mate :)

[chris9902]

when i get home (about 2 hours) i will upload my copy to my server and you can try to download that.

[neil]

that would be great thanks.

I think it might be a problem with my machine though, because it downloads ok, its just the final stage of copying to the hard drive that I get a cyclic redundancy error,

I'm gunna try downloading it again in a bit.

[neil]

:)

It actually downloaded without the cyclic redundancy error!

woo hoo!

:D

[Pselus]

I really recommend checking out www.gotdotnet.com (http://www.gotdotnet.com) for ASP.Net problems...the people there don't always reply as soon as you post...but they DEFINATLY know what they're talking about...I've had MANY problems left unanswered on ASP.Net's forums but in GotDotNet.com's forums they're answered nearly every time.

[PeOfEo]

http://aspnet.4Guysfromrolla.com has excelent articles

[neil]

nice one :)

cheers