Hello.

I have just created a new module, following instructions given in WROX Professional Module Creation book.

I created a new project using the DotNetNuke_Community_05.01.01_StarterKit, then I built the module architecture including controls and DataBase script.

I put all the necessary stuff inside DNN test site on localhost, by creating my module folder inside DesktopModules.

After that, I went to site/host/SQL, I exectuted SQL script with success. Then, I went to module definitions, and imported succesfully the module manifest from mymodule.dnn file.

I can see my new module in the module's list of my site, I clicked on it to view the properties and all is correct there.

So, I went to the home page of the site, and I chosen to put my module on that page.

And... The error message appeared: Error: VideoLinker is currently unavailable.

DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.ViewVideoLinker'....bla bla bla...

I don't know why is it happening and what exactly it means.

I even set the breakpoint on the code execution, and there's CType conversion that is throws the exception.

So, I verified the namespaces, classnames and inheritence of all module's components and found nothing exceptional.

Please help me to resolve this problem.

Thank you.

From EventViewer:

ModuleId: 376
ModuleDefId: 140
FriendlyName: VideoLinker
ModuleControlSource: DesktopModules/VideoLinker/ViewVideoLinker.ascx
AssemblyVersion: 5.1.1
PortalID: 0
PortalName: DNN Test Site
UserID: 1
UserName: admin
ActiveTabID: 39
ActiveTabName: Home
RawURL: /test_site/default.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /test_site/default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://localhost/test_site/default.aspx
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: e616b0bf-c6e0-4fd1-8b5e-135732ecf8f5
InnerException: Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.ViewVideoLinker'.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.GetType
StackTrace:
Message: DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.ViewVideoLinker'. ---> System.Web.HttpParseException: Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.ViewVideoLinker'. ---> System.Web.HttpParseException: Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.ViewVideoLinker'. ---> System.Web.HttpException: Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.ViewVideoLinker'. at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.GetType(String typeName, Boolean ignoreCase, Boolean throwOnError) at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ProcessInheritsAttribute(String baseTypeName, String codeFileBaseTypeName, String src, Assembly assembly) at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.PostProcessMainDirectiveAttributes(IDictionary parseData) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ProcessException(Exception ex) at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseStringInternal(String text, Encoding fileEncoding) at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseString(String text, VirtualPath virtualPath, Encoding fileEncoding) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseString(String text, VirtualPath virtualPath, Encoding fileEncoding) at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseFile(String physicalPath, VirtualPath virtualPath) at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseInternal() at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.Parse() at System.Web.Compilation.BaseTemplateBuildProvider.get_CodeCompilerType() at System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvider.GetCompilerTypeFromBuildProvider(BuildProvider buildProvider) at System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvidersCompiler.ProcessBuildProviders() at System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvidersCompiler.PerformBuild() at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CompileWebFile(VirtualPath virtualPath) at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResultInternal(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile) at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResultWithNoAssert(HttpContext context, VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile) at System.Web.UI.TemplateControl.LoadControl(VirtualPath virtualPath) at DotNetNuke.UI.ControlUtilities.LoadControl[T](TemplateControl containerControl, String ControlSrc) in C:\Server\TestSite\DotNetNuke\Library\UI\ControlUtilities.vb:line 57 at DotNetNuke.UI.Modules.ModuleHost.LoadModuleControl() in C:\Server\TestSite\DotNetNuke\Library\UI\Modules\ModuleHost.vb:line 248 --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Source:
Server Name: TOSHIBA

And, just before that:

AssemblyVersion: 5.1.1
PortalID: -1
PortalName:
UserID: -1
UserName:
ActiveTabID: -1
ActiveTabName:
RawURL:
AbsoluteURL:
AbsoluteURLReferrer:
UserAgent:
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: 0d0c3d09-dc78-49e2-a928-2e8df475f13f
InnerException: Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.VideoLinkerController'.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetType
StackTrace:
Message: System.Web.HttpException: Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.VideoLinkerController'. at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetType(String typeName, Boolean throwOnError, Boolean ignoreCase) at DotNetNuke.Framework.Reflection.CreateType(String TypeName, String CacheKey, Boolean UseCache, Boolean IgnoreErrors) in C:\Server\TestSite\DotNetNuke\Library\Framework\Reflection.vb:line 278
Source:
Server Name: TOSHIBA

I'm still debugging while posting :)

So, I said before, that solution compiled with no errors, and that was false. The compilation stopped at the DNN module Store.AddressEdit.ascx.

What I did, is to temporary remove that control from the project and rebuild the solution again.

Now, I don't see anymore DNN related AddressEdit error, but my module errors in the errors list while compiling.

I got 4 errors:

Error    1    Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.ManageAttributes'.    C:\Server\TestSite\DotNetNuke\Website\DesktopModules\VideoLinker\ManageAttributes.ascx    1   
Error    2    Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.Settings'.    C:\Server\TestSite\DotNetNuke\Website\DesktopModules\VideoLinker\Settings.ascx    1   
Error    3    Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.EditVideoLinker'.    C:\Server\TestSite\DotNetNuke\Website\DesktopModules\VideoLinker\EditVideoLinker.ascx    1   
Error    4    Could not load type 'CodexStar.Modules.VideoLinker.ViewVideoLinker'.    C:\Server\TestSite\DotNetNuke\Website\DesktopModules\VideoLinker\ViewVideoLinker.ascx    1   

Those errors are related to the controls used by my module.

What's strange in here, is that my controls XYZ.ascx are not related to their associated classed(code behind) - XYZ.ascx.cs !

In the solution explorer, I have:

-XYZ.ascx
   ...XYZ.ascx.cs
XYZ.ascx.designer.cs

The designer is completely appart and not nested inside the control node. What is that?

So the control is searching for it's class (code behind) and cannot find it...

How can it be possible?

Just to remind, I built my module in the newly generated project by DotNetNuke_Community_05.01.01_StarterKit.

After that, I took the XYZ folder and I copied it to the DNN test site, inside the folder Desktop Modules.