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Joined: 5/26/12
Originally posted by coretex666
There are lots of ways to start a discussion over some aspect of a game. When it comes to GW2 it's mostly unconstructive posts without facts or anything to back them up, simple "hate" posts like "this game sucks" with no other reasoning than "because I say so". What kind of an answer would anyone expect to those kind of posts? An in-depth analysis as to why they are wrong? Maybe they should analyze why they feel in such a way first. And no I haven't seen a constructive post around here that was bashed or dismissed as trolling, we are just full of non-sense posts that serve no reason.
Block the trolls, don't answer them, so we can remove the garbage from these forums
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Joined: 6/08/06
You are reading a public forum deadicated to a highly competive genre.
It's going to happen, it's not going to stop, best to just ignore all opinion for anything and just play the games you want.
Bring on the WARRRRGGHH!
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Joined: 1/03/12
"I shall take your position into consideration"
Originally posted by seridan
When I say this, I obviously do not mean hate posts, so I will take the liberty not to answer your question of what answer I would expect to this kind of posts.
I meant posts that attempt at providing constructive criticism or expressing negative opinion in a correct manner. I think that people should be allowed to make these threads and that their opinions should be tolerated even if they are not shared by the people reacting to them instead of being told "We dont care about those critics".
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Joined: 5/26/12
Originally posted by coretex666
I agree, that's the only way for any game to go forward.
Block the trolls, don't answer them, so we can remove the garbage from these forums
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Joined: 4/06/12
There seems to be a bit of nativity concerning the common Internet activity of "paid to post". The OP is right to suspect certain posts are dubious in their nature. Easy tells are load questions like "have you stopped beating your wife?" or "How long will it take Anernanet to fix the broken combat system?
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Joined: 12/27/11
Originally posted by coretex666
I'll answer with another question : why absolutely feeling the need to create another 323278th topic about something one don't like with the game ? Why feeling the need to create a topic about it, except a huge "hey it's me ! I got something VERY important to say, gw2 fans !" ? Why ? Why not simply doing a forum search, chose one of the (very) numerous topics already created about the discussion subject, and post into it ?
And yes, enthusiasts don't care about critics, dude. Meanwhile, they are totally open with debating on a certain subject, and its intrications, in a polite manner, but certainly not open to make the effort to stay civil against a critic that is either 1) just disinformation, 2) blurry, 3) miseducated, 4) provokative
And let's be honest, this is precisely the kind of tone I've seen for monthes now.
Because question has never been about discussing something good or bad in a game. If you read all the constructive discussions in this forum, you'll find that most of them can easily start to talk about something considered a "problem", but never trigger any hate from fans. Because it's well written, unprovokative, and most of all, not monomaniac about the point it's talking about. Most haters that we're talking about here are that : monomaniacs always bashing the same subject over and over, with the same (non) argument over and over... over ... over and over .... It's just insane at some point.
So in the end, the only message we could tell to them is "OK WE GET IT now move along and just enjoy the positives in that damn game."
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Joined: 12/01/05
Originally posted by Amjoco
No its not. Its Damm In Mad. But yes, stop the hate!
I didn't like GW2 when I first heard of it. I didn't like Guild Wars 1 very much either - the instancing was too much for me and I didnt really get into the graphics. I was an Ultima / EverQuest / Vanguard old school MMORPG player, I liked the long travelling, the complicated stats, hundreds of quests where I ran around this massive world for a tiny reward, hunting for items so I could get an extra +1 toughness or a slight advantage against mobs. I liked being a dedicated Healer and putting all my time into making my character better.
But, after making some posts here, and being shown videos and explained how it was different, I finally decided to get the Pre-order and try out the beta (although I was secretly thinking "this is going to suck", right up until my Asura Elementalist almost fell over while casting and I laughed out loud).
You know what? I spend every day now checking for new information, watching the latest guide videos, reading the forums, and telling my friends about this cool new game thats coming out. I can't wait to take part at launch, and I'm seriously impressed with ArenaNet and how they have studied other games and worked out just what wasnt working and fixed it. Even down to tiny details like opening the servers a few hours early so they have time to spot any problems before offical launch time, and removing the need for queues.
It's like a breath of fresh air, and I think those who "hate" the game based on heresay should try to give it a go and see if they still feel the same after an hour or so. I think you might be pleasantly surprised.
"When people don't know much about something, they tend to fill in the blanks the way they want them to be filled in. They are almost always disappointed." - Will Wright
Like others said. Topics like "Why GW2 is going to fail" always get blocked, because there is never any constructive criticism. It's always "It will because I said so", people who don't like the game, never back their theories up with arguments, it's always statements. One on a billion posts like that has some arguments, but those are mostly incorrect, because someone was to lazy to actually read some stickies and learn about the game.
Which is even more wierd, because how can someone don't like a game, that he doesn't even know. It's like the person is set to hate the game from the beginning for some reason, and then just dedicates himself to search for negatives.
I don't really think that this is some kind of marketing, they are regular people who get really frustrated by other people who like the game and praise it, like the OP wrote.
Why? That's how people work. I think it is mostly jealousy, because they see people who are really in love with a game, while they themselves can't find a game they can enjoy anymore. Frustration grows to the point they need to release it on forums.
If you just don't like a game, you stay quiet. It needs to get personal for someone to write about it.
You shouldn't worry, people have brains and will verify empty statements by themselves, doing their own research.
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Joined: 12/27/11
Originally posted by donpopuki
Paid to Post is a rising problem, undoubtedly. I tried to start a discussion about it ages ago, but it was moved in nobody-will-see-this-topic-land : http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/345774/page/1
There is also this well known fact that some other MMO players really don't like how they're gonna be left alone when GW2 will be released :
Seen on Arena Junkies, in the article where they announce the integration of GW2 in their site :
Originally posted by Donald
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Joined: 7/21/12
Fact is, for almost one full year, GW2 fans have mercilessly trolled the forums of any other game that could be seen as a competitor to GW2 during its release. The very first few pages showed a few forum avatars that are well recognized for showing into other games forums to trash talk their game and tell people not to try those "trash"games because GW2 is coming yada yada.
GW2 hardcore fans have been by far the most virulent cult like crew that I've seen since WoW. Now their time is finally coming that the world in general get to see the game for themselves and not only as GW2 fans present it. And they finally get to see with their own eyes the emperor has no clothes - it's just another MMO - not particularly better or worse than others but with a helluva cash shop. All these passionate GW2 fans are getting is what they have been dishing out to other games for a year.
Simple as that.
You just have to stop and think critically about your game the same as you've been lashing on other games all this time.
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Anything out the mouth of a 12-18 year old is fake epeen crud anyway but as games attract 12-18 year olds we should expect alot of random bullsh*t hate on forums :D
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any post, whether its positive or negative, that makes a statement without any reasoning behind it, you can pretty much ignore. That at least, is my take on things, if someone dislikes a certain feature and explains why, then thats a fair comment, likewise with the positive posts that explains what it is that they like and why they like it, bland posts that just make a statement without even attempting to give some kind of reasoning behind it, are imo, wasted posts, as they add nothing.
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Joined: 10/21/07
It's funny because GW2 is one of the few titles that doesn't have as much hate as other mmos do. At least you don't see "WoW clone" all over the place. People are just making up stupid arguments for the sake of arguing. All the "hate" mostly comes down to :
"they lied to us about random events, they aren't random at all"
"optimization sucks, my 3xGTX 680 gets bad performance on stress tests"
And the occasional "there are no raids" other than that there really hasn't been all that much in terms of real problems with the game. This is mostly because ArenaNet didn't promise us any features or hyped the game with anything that didn't exist or doesn't work. There are no cinematic trailers, no bullshit. Sure there are things that they made sound better than they actually are (not by much) but it's all just marketing and everyone does it, even Blizzard . Can you imagine if Blizzard told you how dull and repetetive WoW actually is?
That's just my 2cents. I'm not a fanboy of any game I love all games of all genres.
Originally posted by CMark
Saying "GW2 fans" did this or that, after reading this thread. Since you should know there are lots of people that trash talk every game, and claim they are fans of other, which is not always true since they can be paid to do this. That + the fact that mostly it is other people that call them fans, they do not claim it themselves. "Oh, must be another fanboy".
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Some folks are like Slinkies, totally useless but great fun to watch when pushed down stairs
Originally posted by Pravana
I don't hate it but I won't play it... not a fan of GW universe, I find it boring.
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I don't hate GW2. I guess on a scale of 1 (hate), through 5 (neutral), towards 10 (love) I've been on a 7. Then the rabid fanboys came, and I'm down to a 4.
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Originally posted by CMark
Before, during, or after writing your view, did you think you would come off as a bit hypocritical?
Every forum has haters of other games in them. In my view you are one of them just like the rest. Take your own advice.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Originally posted by maji
If other people can annoy you to the point they influence your judgment so badly, I hope for you it is not the same in real life, cause it would be a problem.
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Joined: 7/21/12
Originally posted by everland
I read that a few times . . . it still was too incoherent to understand. Just, for shiz and giggles. Take several random posters from the first 3 pages and look at their post history. You will find more than a few in forums other than GW2 showing unnanounced to troll them. Doing to other games for many months in advance, what you are accusing others to doing to your precious Kool-Aid right now.
Now, much like cults, there is no room for reasoning or arguing - just burn the witch that dares not agree with us. That's fine. Point's been made. Some of us will just chill back and relax - and watch. It'll be a few months. 3-6. It'll be fun.
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Originally posted by maji
If i would generate a "love" to a game based on "fanboyism", i should skip the video games as whole by now.
Just play the game when it releases and dont give a damn about others. Or better, dont read public forums, it become less annoying like that. Trust me ;)
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Empire of the Ants (novel)
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|Bernard Werber
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|Les Fourmis trilogy
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Les Fourmis (English: The Ants) is a 1991 science fiction novel by French writer Bernard Werber. It was released in English as Empire of the Ants. The book sold more than two million copies and has been translated into more than 30 languages. It was also taken to video-game format.
Les Fourmis is first in a three-part trilogy, followed by Le Jour Des Fourmis ("The Day of the Ants", 1992) and La Révolution des fourmis ("The Revolution of the Ants", 1996). The three novels are commonly known as Les Fourmis trilogy.
The plot begins as two stories that take place in parallel, one in the world of humans (in Paris) and one in the world of ants (in a Formica rufa colony in a park near Paris). The time is the early 21st century (the recent future, relative to the time when Werber wrote the book). The human character receives a house and a provocative message as legacy from his recently deceased uncle. He begins to investigate the life and mysterious activities of his uncle and decides to descend into the cellar of the house but does not return. His family and other people follow and disappear. The ant character is a female whose foraging expedition gets destroyed in one strike by a mysterious force that comes from above. She suspects that a colony of another ant species has attacked them with a secret weapon, and attempts to meet with the queen and to rally other ants to investigate the disaster. However, she attracts the attention of a secret group of ants within the same colony that appear to want to conceal this information. As the plot unfolds, the humans and the ants encounter new mysteries and participate in challenging events, including a war between different ant species. The descriptions of ant morphology, behavior, and social organization as well as their interactions with other species are engaging, detailed, and scientifically based, although Werber significantly exaggerates the reasoning and communication capabilities of the ants (rendering his work science-fiction).
- Arabic translation: النمل
- Brazilian translation: O Império das Formigas
- Bulgarian translation: Мравките
- Croatian translation: Mravi
- Czech translation: Mravenci
- Danish translation: Myrerne
- Dutch translation: De mieren
- English translation: Empire of the Ants
- Finnish translation: Muurahaiset
- Georgian translation: ჭიანჭველები
- German translation: Die Ameisen
- Hebrew translation: הנמלים
- Hungarian translation: A hangyák
- Italian translation: Formiche
- Korean translation: 개미
- Polish translation: Imperium mrówek
- Portuguese translation: As Formigas
- Romanian translation: Furnicile
- Russian translation: Муравьи
- Slovak translation: Mravce
- Spanish translation: Las Hormigas
- Swedish translation: Myrorna
- Turkish translation: Karıncalar - Olağanüstü Bir Algılama Biçimi
- Vietnamese translation: Kiến
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I don't like seeing percentages when the numbers are so low. Like when ATI releases drivers and the release notes claim a 55% increase in game X at 1600 x 1200 with 6xaa / 16x af... what kills me is when 55% = 4 or 5 FPS thats just LAME!!!!!!
I see your excitment...realizing that the game MIGHT be CPU dependant but come on man if you are using a 939 with DDR 1 system and have to fork out $200 for a decent conroe motherboard, another $525 for the e6700 chip and another $400 for decent 2GB of DDR 2 then I sure as hell better see more of an increase than 5 fps...I almost died laughing when you noted it to be 55.6% increase over 4800, I'm sorry but 14 fps still sucks LOL.
4400+ @2.3Ghz = 8fps
4800+ @2.4Ghz = 9fps (~12.5%+ over email@example.com)
E6700 @2.7Ghz = 14fps ! (55.6% + over 4800+)
Wow I'm sold on a conroe time to sell my 3Ghz overclocked X2 3800 and blow $1100 to gain 2 or 3 more FPS... W00000t!
I see your point & i'm not here promoting for the Conore , otherwise i'd post this thread in the CPU section .. its all about benchmark results.
2) like what Tygerwoody said : 55% difference
55% .. sole framerate numbers are not the issue here unless the reader is some kind of a n00b who dont understand simple math.
now if i say - for another game - that a 4800+ gets
& the Conore gets
would that make you or the reader happy ?? because its the same percentage afterall.
what matters though .. at the end of the day the guy with the E6700 had better experiance in BFMEII than the guy with the 4800+ (i.e. higher minimum & avarage framerate).
3) As for upgrading .. well you
to go DDRII sooner or later .. its the future. both AM2 & Intel Core 2 chipsets requires it so at least you're not wasting money by getting those.
4) Those are stock numbers & everyone here knows that the Conore is a hell of an overclocker (& much better than the X2s at that) .. so with a little o/cing you could achieve 15fps+ with no problems.
so let me stress again that from a *technical standpoint* this is a very nice increase in performance for a CPU dependent game.
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This lobster en casserole recipe is a lavish treat for seafood lovers. The cooked lobster in a flavorful medley of herbs and spices is as savory as it looks. Made filling with added mushrooms and peas along with chaddar cheese, this lobster en casserole is hard to resist and best served over steaming rice.
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SHERIDAN — If you were hanging around Kendrick Park around 1 p.m. Friday, you may have noticed a lot of ducks in Big Goose Creek, rubber ducks, that is.
The Kiwanis Club held their 26th annual duck race to help raise money for the club, whose mantra is, "young children are priority one."
Ducks were purchased at $5 apiece, and then dumped into the creek with the winning duck's owner taking home $500.
Duck number 173 out of 1,000 was the first to cross the finish line and 609 Consulting was the purchaser of that lucky duck, followed by Carol Troutt, who took home $200 with her second-place duck and Cory Hensford walked away with $100 extra in his pocket with his third-place duck.
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About two weeks ago, Rudy Gay matched his worst shooting effort of the season against the New Orleans Hornets as part of a dismal slump for the Memphis Grizzlies. Now he's breathing new life into the Toronto Raptors. Gay leads the Raptors into Sunday night's home matchup against a Hornets team seeking a third straight victory behind strong play from emerging point guard Greivis Vasquez. Gay's next-to-last game with Memphis was a 91-83 loss to New Orleans (17-33) on Jan. 27 in which he shot 3 of 17 and scored 10 points. That capped an eight-game stretch in which he averaged 13.1 points and 35.9 percent shooting. Since being acquired by Toronto (18-32) on Jan. 30, Gay is averaging 24.3 points. He scored 17 of his 23 after the third quarter of a 100-98 overtime victory Friday that snapped Indiana's 15-game home win streak. "The Raptors have been playing great since I've been here, and we've been playing well with each other," Gay said. "You know, I just want to be in at the end of...
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Create a very simple page in ASP.NET 2.0, add a TreeView control and set ShowLines=true; now browse the page with Internet Explorer 7: you'll very likely see something like this:
In IE 6 this looks good...
The point is that Internet Explorer 7 changes the boxing model: now a box that's too small to accomodate ita content won't stretch like it does on all other browsers including IE6, it will try to stay as small as possible. The problem in this case is that the DIV tags generated by the control are just 1 pixel height, which was working fine until now. Here is how the "View source" for the page above looks:
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As you can see, the first DIV tag contains a style definition with "height:1px"; that's the problem.
And now, here is how we can sort this out:
Note that normally the style defined in the DIV takes precedence over the style defined at page level (or external .css file), but since in this case we need to override that setting, we can use the !important CSS directive; here is how the modified source looks like:
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And the resulting page:
P.s.: thanks to my colleague Markus Rheker for this one!
Yesterday I closed a case about a migration issue from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0. The customer built this application based on ASP.NET 1.1 to generate some PDF documents on the fly on the web server, and stream the content to the client for reading; the application also served as a sort of archive browser, where online users are able to browse a list of archived PDF files. The customer thought carefully to his error handling (I think he did a very good job), and also decided to customize the standard 404 error page to something more friendly and informative for application's users, so he configured the <customErrors> section in his web.config to point to a specific page to handle the 404 return codes. But he wanted this custom page to be displayed also if the user requested a non existing PDF file, so he had to add a new mapping in IIS console, to have requests for .pdf files go through the ASP.NET execution channel (aspnet_isapi.dll etc...) and benefit of the advanced features (including security and error handling) granted by the .NET Framework.
This worked pretty well fos some time, until the customer decided to migrate his web applications to ASP.NET 2.0. He recompiled the application with Visual Studio 2005, updated the IIS mapping to reference the aspnet_isapi.dll which comes with Framework 2.0 and then at the first run of the upgraded site got this weird behavior: if he tried to browse a non existing .aspx page he got his custom 404 page, but if he tried to browse a non existing .pdf file IIS prompted him to enter authentication credentials; but no matter which ones he inserted, after three attempts (all failing) he was redirected to the 401 error page.
They sent me a sample application, and reproducing the problem on my machine was quite straightforward. To be honest in my experience this is not a common scenario (maybe you can correct me?) so I didn't remeber exactly all the details about how to configure it, but I had some echoes of an ASP.NET training I attended a few years ago (which was part of my MCSD certification, before joining Microsoft) and I thought we had to tell somehow the runtime how to manage this new extension we wanted to add... My mind went to HttpHandlers, but I didn't find any new HttpHander in customer's web.config. So I added it to my sample:
<add path="*.pdf" verb="*" type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler" validate="true"/>
I tested again, and I magically gor the custom 404 page also requesting a non existing .pdf file.
Next question is: if the application worked fine for some time with ASP.NET 1.1 without adding that HttpHandler, where is the difference? Well... thinking about how the configuration file mechanism works in ASP.NET, I opened "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\CONFIG\machine.config" for 1.1 and "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web.config" for 2.0, and started looking at the differences in the <httpHandlers> section. ASP.NET 2.0 has a longer list of extensions and HttpHandlers perconfigured, but I found what I was looking for at the end of the section:
machine.config for ASP.NET 1.1[…]
<add verb="*" path="*.asp" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />
<add verb="*" path="*.licx" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />
<add verb="*" path="*.resx" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />
<add verb="*" path="*.resources" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />
<add verb="GET,HEAD" path="*" type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler" />
<add verb="*" path="*" type="System.Web.HttpMethodNotAllowedHandler" />
machine.config for ASP.NET 1.1
<add verb="*" path="*.asp" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />
<add verb="*" path="*.licx" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />
<add verb="*" path="*.resx" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />
<add verb="*" path="*.resources" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />
<add verb="GET,HEAD" path="*" type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler" />
<add verb="*" path="*" type="System.Web.HttpMethodNotAllowedHandler" />
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<add path="*.refresh" verb="*" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" validate="true" />
<add path="*.svc" verb="*" type="System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpHandler, System.ServiceModel, Version=22.214.171.124, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" validate="false" />
<add path="*" verb="GET,HEAD,POST" type="System.Web.DefaultHttpHandler" validate="true" />
<add path="*" verb="*" type="System.Web.HttpMethodNotAllowedHandler" validate="true" />
root web.config for ASP.NET 2.0
<add path="*.refresh" verb="*" type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" validate="true" />
<add path="*.svc" verb="*" type="System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpHandler, System.ServiceModel, Version=126.96.36.199, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" validate="false" />
<add path="*" verb="GET,HEAD,POST" type="System.Web.DefaultHttpHandler" validate="true" />
<add path="*" verb="*" type="System.Web.HttpMethodNotAllowedHandler" validate="true" />
That's the difference: in ASP.NET 1.1, if a request has an extension which does not match one of the predefined extensions (and has a GET or HEAD verb) will match the "*" path and will go through the StaticFileHandler module, while in ASP.NET 2.0 if the same happens the request will go through the DefaultHttpHandler module, which has a different behavior. So to be 100% sure I removed the custom HttpHander from application web.config for the repro, and added it in the root web.config, and of course the problem was again resolved.
Another step forward: is it conceivable that we make such a change without documenting it? Well... I learnt to not be surpresed of anything in life, but before becoming too philosophic I started searching our docs and I found a clear reference to this behavior in the ASP.NET Run-Time Breaking Changes page:
Short Description
When mapping custom extensions to an existing ASP.NET builtin handler, it is now necessary to configure a build provider for that extension.
Affected APIs
Compat Switch Available
When mapping custom extensions to an existing ASP.NET builtin handler, it is now necessary to configure a build provider for that extension. In version 2.0, the ASP.NET build system requires a build provider to handle compilation. The builtin build providers can be reused but they need to be specified.
User Scenario
If an application maps a private file extensions (say .misc or .foo or whatever) to an existing ASP.NET handler type (say, the page handler), then it is now necessary to provide configuration that tells ASP.NET how to compile that file type. e.g.
<add verb="*" path="*.misc" type="System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory" />
In v1, this would work as is. In version 2.0, they also need to register a BuildProvider. e.g.
<add extension=".misc" appliesTo="Web" type="System.Web.Compilation.PageBuildProvider" />
Types mapped to the static file handler or star mapped types are not impacted by this, only compiled types.
Work Around
Add a configuration directive to tell ASP.NET how to compile that file type.
Short Description
When mapping custom extensions to an existing ASP.NET builtin handler, it is now necessary to configure a build provider for that extension.
Affected APIs
Compat Switch Available
When mapping custom extensions to an existing ASP.NET builtin handler, it is now necessary to configure a build provider for that extension. In version 2.0, the ASP.NET build system requires a build provider to handle compilation. The builtin build providers can be reused but they need to be specified.
User Scenario
If an application maps a private file extensions (say .misc or .foo or whatever) to an existing ASP.NET handler type (say, the page handler), then it is now necessary to provide configuration that tells ASP.NET how to compile that file type. e.g.
<add verb="*" path="*.misc" type="System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory" />
In v1, this would work as is. In version 2.0, they also need to register a BuildProvider. e.g.
<add extension=".misc" appliesTo="Web" type="System.Web.Compilation.PageBuildProvider" />
Work Around
Add a configuration directive to tell ASP.NET how to compile that file type.
I sent everything to the customer and he's now happiling displying his custom 404 page also for non existing PDF files .
Lesson learnt with this one: if I had the breaking change page at hand, I very likely saved the time spent in troubleshooting... but hey, at least we solved the problem!
Every now and then we get calls from a customer who decided to migrate his application from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0 (and sometimes those are mission-critical ones...) just changing the relevant mappings in IIS console, to then discover that the application is no longer working, or has some quite weird behavior which gives them headaches...
Lukily that was not the case of the call I'll now talk about; to test if the application could work against ASP.NET 2.0 the customer made the very quick test described above: they simply changed the mappings through IIS console and immediately notice that something was going wrong inside the app. They started troubleshooting the problem themselves and have then been able to repro the same problematic behavior inside a minimized application, just a simple .aspx page with some very basics functionalities in there (just a page with a command button and a GridView to fill with some data coming from Sql Server). This minimized repro was working fine on the dev machine with Cassini, but once installed in the target web server (Windows 2003 with IIS 6.0); when browsing with IE, the resulting HTML lacks completely the client-side Javascript to trigger the postback (while this code is present in Firefox). They were accessing the web server through a proxy, but the same was true also when using Firefox...
We checked the basics (event log, IIS configuration, web.config etc...) but everything looked fine; we then captured a network trace to monitor the communication between the client and the web server, and here we found that the User-Agent string was a bit different from the one we excepted (and this was also confirmed enabling Tracing for the test .aspx page):
The User-Agent string was modified by the procy of the customer.
As a colleague of mine told at the Lisbon off-site a couple of weeks ago: "Now that we understand what's going wrong, we can fix it" . We created a new .broser file (we called it jaguar.browser) and modified the regular expression to match your custom User-Agent string; we preferred to create a new file instead of modifying the IE one because those files are not granted to be immutable, and future hotfixes or Service Packs could modify them, thus invalidating our changes (and the customer would have all of a sudden the problem back). By the way, after you create or modify a .browser file, the new changes are not immediately available for the runtime, so you must run the following command:
aspnet_regbrowsers -i
aspnet_regbrowsers -i
The command creates the runtime browser capabilities assembly and installs it in the global assembly cache; so in this case the problem was not IE itself, but rather the non matching User-Agent string.
Here are a couple of links which may be of interests regarding this issue:
As I guess many of you have noted, I'm not native English speaking so even if I try to write in a simple and appropriate form to the context of this blog (and I should apoligize for my mistakes), I sometimes find miself wondering how to exactly express in English what I have in mind and is of course easy to me to say in Italian... Well, one of the beauties of working in a virtual team spread across different EMEA countries (and also the possibility to get in touch with people practically from all over the world, whereaver Microsoft has an office), is the possibility of get in touch with all of those different people, languages and cultures quite easily (such as emailing, IM or ringing someone).
So, taking advantage of this opportunity, I emailed Doug to ask his opinion on the title of my blog, because I've been wondering for a while now it the title really makes sense in English . I didn't want to use the word "ramblings" because it sounded a bit stale, and I tried to find something with a similar meaning ("rambling from a developer") but a bit more refined… but how does it sound?
As usual Doug has been very kind (as he have been a few months ago, when thanks to his unbiased help I won a bet with a friend about which was the right form of a particular sentence in English... thanks Doug! . By the way, that friend will has to fulfill his obligations!) and gave me an explanation:
I made some researches in my English dictionary, and found also a few other entries for the list above:
So, what do you like most? Any other suggestion? Let me know your thoughts (and this is also a means to see how many interested readers I have... ). Let's see is something nice comes out; and what about the prize for this contest? Well... the proudness of having helped me choosing the new title of my blog!
Last Wednesday I took part to the first (non) meeting of the new-born Italian bloggers community: we were a bunch of people united by the passion for technology, who happen woking in the same company and whom share an interest (if not a passion, in some cases) for sharing their experiences and knowledge in their blogs.
We are just at the beginning of the jurney, so if you can read Italian and what to know more, start having a look at the Italian MS bloggers list
Or at least if you do, just make sure to have a backup copy of the working demo in a safe place for a quick last minute restore!
(if you are just curious, you can learn more in Wikipedia and on the Murphy's law site )
Every now and then the question comes back in the limelight: "Why some hotfixes are publicly available to download, but most of the times I have to call CSS to get one?" and "Wouldn't be easier if we could just download the fix ourselves? At least we would save time, since we'll get it anyway from CSS" and again "Who decides if a fix has to be public or private? How?" etc..., feel free to add more if you have (and I'm sure some of you do! ).
I discussed this topic internally with my colleagues (both Support Engineers and Escalation Engineers) in CSS EMEA and of course there are some different views on it, but there is also a common understanding about some of the principles behind the policy Microsoft adopted. Those "private" fixes do not undergo the same amount of tests that Service Packs or "public" fixes have to pass, and this is the main reason (basically: costs); one of the parameters the Product Team(s) takes into account when producing a fix is the business impact that issue is having (or potentially will have) on customer's applications, but also the risk of introducing regression bugs, the amount of code to change, severity of the problem etc..., and then someone in the management chain has to decide which kind of fix to produce. Basically the process outlined here for Sql fixes, also applies for DevTools products (and for any other products in Microsoft, I guess).
The logic behind the policy we nowadays have, is that a customer can make a research and find the KB article which points to a specific fix and call CSS to get it; nevertheless sometime is hard to understand why the KB article is publicly available, but the hotfix is not. A solution to this would be to keep also those articles private, so that we at CSS can find the fix anyway, but this should clear the situation on customer's perspective: public articles refers only to public fixes, available for download.
Correct? Well, sort of...
Because sometimes (also in my experience) the requested fix does not fits customer's needs, either because it refers to a different product (previous version), or because the customer already has it maybe installed with a Service Pack or with a Roll-up package: what if a customer finds an article which describes a symptom he's getting, but due to a different cause? Of course that fix will not work for him, and he'll have to call CSS anyway...
Keeping some hotfixes private is necessary for three reasons:
In my experience, when we get an incorrect fix request from a customer we of course don't send the file (which will be useless anyway), but try to help the customer with a reasonable commercial effort (as the policy tells ), keeping in mind that this kind of Support Calls are free of charge; so if we can't find a solution quickly, we'll have to open a "standard" (either incident or payment) call to work on the problem.
Of course we could improve the technical accuracy of our fix articles in order to increase customer's ability to correctly identify his problem and the relevant hotfix (if that's the case, and if available); but sometimes the articles are technically correct, but could happen that the "human factor" generates errors and misunderstandings (and I'm not sure if this can be controlled...). Then those private fixes are already available for Premier customers through a restricted web site they can access; maybe would be possible to apply that kind of initiative to a larger portion of customers, but still we should be able to know who and when downloaded it (for the reason at point 3 above).
Nevertheless the pilot I blogged about a while ago is still progressing, so maybe something is moving in the direction of the feedbacks we got from you, after all...
Of course any comments on this is welcome!
Then in your web.config use an authentication section similar to the following:
<authentication mode="Forms">
Internet Explorer will only pass cookies from one site to another if they have the domain cookie attribute set; i.e. the Fully Qualified Domain Name is required. Moreover all GET/POST must use the FQDN, as any Response.Redirect. The reason behing this is security, to make sure that a cookie is not passed to another site, thus exposing to cookies stealing.
This is an interesting case I got very recently and that made me scratch my head a lot, wondering what was going wrong on customer's machine for a while... until I called Doug on the rescue and we (he) drove the call to an happy ending
I got this case from a colleague on the Visual Studio team; the customer reported a weird problem with the debugging of their ASP.NET 1.1 application (with Visual Studio 2003): when trying to step into the code line by line with F11, the debugger actually stopped only on the signature of every method skipping completely the body of the method, and to add something more, this happened only when they were using a specific namespace (e.g. MyCompany.MyNamespace.Group); if they used the same exact code but in a different namespace, everything worked fine . Moreover, this was happening on that very specific web server only, if they moved the code to another machine the debugger worked like charm (but moving to a different machine was not an option for them).My first thought went to the .pdb files, some kind of mismatch between the between the code esecuted in memory and the symbols used for debugging.
At this regard I also have to say that the customer had an unusual configuration in his development environment: they had a Win2003 machine with Visual Studio installed, the local IIS had a virtual directory to host the application but the actual files were on a network disk; the files where residing on a shared folder on a different Win2003 server, which was the real web server running the ASP.NET application. Basically the customer used his local IIS (on the DEV machine) just to open the project, edited the code files (saved and compiled on disk Y:, which pointed to a different machine), and when they needed to debug the application they first set a breakpoint in the code, then browsed the target page on their machine (to load the application in the remote worker process), then attached manually the remote w3wp.exe. It worth also to say that even if in my opinion this is not exactly the best configuration they could use, this worked for quite a long time for them.
We first tryed to empty all the temporary folders involved (IE, ASP.NET etc...) but with no luck; we then captured some logs (network traces, Process Monitor, a memory dump of both Visual Studio and the affected w3wp.exe, to see what was happening during the network communication between the two machines, and where the .pdb files where from etc...), but again we got nowhere. The dump showed they had quite a few strong named assemblies in the /bin folders of their applications, and this is not good (as Tess explained here).
We first installed the strong named assemblies in the GAC and ensured that the symbol files where in the correct folder, Visual Studio module list showed the correct symbol file is loaded; we compiled the assembly without the strong name and deploy to the /bin folder rather than the GAC then stepping through the functions worked fine. Sn.exe reported that the checked assemblies where ok, and also testing with a new test key pair the problem was still there.
Doug then had an EasyAssist session with the customer (EasyAssist is a tool based on LiveMeeting, cut out to fit the needs of a remote assistance session) and found that also debugging a local application failed with the same symptoms... From examining environment variables it was noticed that CLR Profiling services were enabled and this pointed to a component of a 3rd party diagnostic tool. Further debugging showed this tool was intercepting function calls during the attempted debug. Disabling this tool allowed debugging with CorDBG to now work and at this point the remote debugging problem was solved.
So the lesson learnt here is: if you need profiling tools use them, but pay attention that they don't interfere with Visual Studio and the debugger, and possibly have those services/tools disabled and enable them only when really needed.
Doug, if you want to add something more on this, you are very welcome!