ASP.NET buttons suddenly stopped working.

[teddarr]

Last night while I was working on my project, all the buttons in my solution stopped working. I was moving the project from my local machine to my schools server.

Does anyone know what I can do about this?

What causes it?

How do I fix it?

Thanks.

[nateraaaa]

Did you build your project once you moved it? You may not have any dlls for the new project yet. This would cause your buttons not to work because there is no dll for the postback events. Are you able to debug on the school servers? If so insert a breakpoint in either the Page_Load event or a button click event and verify that the breakpoint is hit.

Nathan

[teddarr]

I did rebuild. Same problem.

On your advice, I also set break points on the page_load event anf the button click event. Neither on fires.

I can post some code if you would like to see if there's something I forgot.

[r035198x]

I did rebuild. Same problem.

On your advice, I also set break points on the page_load event anf the button click event. Neither on fires.

I can post some code if you would like to see if there's something I forgot.

It would seem therefore that your buttons are no longer associated with their respective event handlers.

[Plater]

I would wonder if your school's server is IIS and your application is configured to run on it?

[teddarr]

Yes, the school is set up to handle it. The project was working great for the last 2 weeks and even up until an hour before I discovered the problem.

[nateraaaa]

Is there a dll in your bin folder on the school's server (probably in the Inetpub folder/VirtualDirectoryName/bin)? If so what is the date of the dll in that bin folder? If it is not the same time as the last time that you built the project you need to update your dll in the bin with the most recent code base.

Nathan

[Plater]

Perhaps the difference between copy/pasting files to the server versus using the PUBLISH website from the dev environment?

[teddarr]

OK, We located the culprit. My project partner and I were updating the website close to the same time and we were not exactly testing all the code as thoroughly as we should.

What happened was that he added a search feature to the website that can be accessed from any page. So, logically, it went onto the master page. Well, the search textbox was inside a form...inside the main form on the page. Well...apparently that's against the law and causes a short circuit.

Three little lines of code brought a whole website and 2 databases to a screeching halt. End of story.

Thank all of you for your insight. I will remember those ideas in case something similar happens again.