Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Adding Service References and ‘The system cannot find the path specified’ error
I was facing this problem recently in a project when adding a reference to a WCF Service simply gave me this error.
I google’d it for a while but in vain, I also removed the auto-gen service entries from the web.config but that did not work either.
Then I realized that earlier I had deleted the Service References folder from the application root, re-add and it worked as expected.
Funny thing is that Visual Studio will not tell you what went wrong, neither folder name appears under Add > ASP.NET Folders nor Visual Studio attempts to recreate it.
Labels: Service Reference, VS2008, WCF, WCF Service
Thursday, September 11, 2008
dotTrace not working with VS 2008 Web Applications
This morning I downloaded the latest build of dotTrace to profile my web application running under ASP.NET Development Server. I had a bit of problem specifying the correct web application path and I was getting this message.
I Google'd it a bit and found two guys having the same issue and offered suggestion that sadly didn't work.
It's was time to use IIS, since all my local web applications connect to a remote database server and I use the built-in web server for development, the web application gave a annoying 'Cannot connect to remote SQL Server' bug when run in IIS, I installed dotTrace on the remote server but it always showed 'Connecting' status, without further delay I copied the database to my local SQL Server and ran dotTrace again.
I got the same status, I google'd again and found this thread at the dotTrace forums and did all the settings suggested in the thread, but they didn't work either.
After 2-1/2 hours of trying I finally gave up and now looking to download ANTS Profiler.Hope it works.
Labels: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Profiling, dotTrace, VS2008
