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Back to your regularly scheduled technology blog: ASP.NET ClientSide JavaScript Fix for Validation Problems in .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and ASPNET_REGIIS -c

Posted 2004-09-14 11:59 AM in ASP.NET | Bugs.

OK, back to programming, as this is not a political blog. Apparently there's some trouble with the .NET Framework Service Pack 1. I personally have not experienced this problem, and I have to admin that it's so obviously weird that I am suspicious that it is in fact a bug. Lots of stuff should/could never have worked if it is. It's likely an install/permissions related bug. That said, here's the details from a recent series of posts on Channel9.

Symptoms

ASP.NET Forms stop posting back when they have validators on them
Errors in Event Viewer like "Failed while copying the ASP.NET client side script files to directories under D:\Whatever. Error code: 80070005"

Fix/Potential Fix

Copy a PRE-SP1 version of WebUiValidation.js over the one you have in aspnet_client.

Certainly make sure you HAVE an aspnet_client folder either in that directory or mapped in another VDIR. (This is a common and unrelated problem.)

I'll get the details/diffs on the changes in this file and post them soon.

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 4:12:33 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I hit just this problem on one of my sites yesterday. Putting in a new aspnet_client directory fixed the problem.

Chris Tavares

Friday, September 17, 2004 9:07:55 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Framework 1.1 SP1 has hosed my whole ASP.NET engine on my Win2003 dev box (Returns 500 errors on any aspx/asmx/etc). It yields nasty exceptions in VS 2003 on that box trying to just open a web solution. I have a support ticket in the works - we'll see what they say.