Yeah - what Chris said - then level fiddler at it... Cheers,
Jordan. On 29/03/2012, at 12:29 PM, Chris Anderson <christheco...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's your startup project? The Web project or the Silverlight one? Maybe > your Silverlight project is set as the startup project, hence the issue. > > Chris > > > On 29 March 2012 11:01, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > Well it’s happened again. > > > > I spent two hours this morning refactoring a demo SL4 project to prepare for > expansion. I split a few classes, tidied things up, etc. I hit F5 to run and > it says I have a cross domain call failure. I spent the next two hours trying > to fix this problem. I removed and added the service ref again about 40 times > in different ways, I searched the web and all of the advice is worse than > useless. I even had bizarre errors adding the ref back again like “Custom > tool warning: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the > LoaderExceptions property for more information” which I’ve never had before > and advice in this matter is useless. The referenced service didn’t even > change, it’s not in the solution. I didn’t add any new service types. I have > now spent 4 hours trying to get a previously working demo project going again > without hope. I could restore everything and incrementally reapply my > morning’s changes, but that would take another 2 hours. > > > > I created a fresh SL4 project and web app out of the wizard, added the save > service ref and it works. So something “has gone wrong” with my demo project > and nothing seems to resurrect it. My only hope therefore is to slowly paste > the contents of the old app into the fresh one and pray that it keeps > working. I estimate that this will take 6 hours. > > > > I’ve been writing software for 35 years and I haven’t seen such f***ing > mind-blowing instability and idiocy and insanity before and it just seems to > get worse and worse with every passing year and every new kit and tool and > framework that comes out. Are we going through a historical period in IT > history where everything is actually “dis-integrating”? Is it an internal > joke by Microsoft to cull the weak and breed a new generation of drone > developers who just accept that everything doesn’t work? I spend more time > searching the web for answers to insane problems that and I do actually > coding, and most of the time I get no answers or increasing numbers of stupid > answers cluttering the web. > > > > More and more often I get problems where quite simply “I have no frigging > idea what to do”. There are no meaningful clues and no obvious course of > action. The only thing to do is delete stuff, jiggle options, add stuff back, > restart IIS, reboot, restore backups, compare old and new files, etc. There > is usually no diagnostic path to follow, you just bumble around until you get > a different (less worse) error that might give you a clue. > > > > Is this the future of software development? > > > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
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