Yesterday I went to the DNN forums page and got an "A critical error has occurred..". Refreshed the page later and got the same error. This morning I refreshed the page and got the same error. I wondered how long is it going to take them (dnnsoftware) to fix the problem. Then I peeked at the URL and it hit me and I went duh.. arrgghh!! I fell for it again!  :( It's the error page url and it will always show the error message. In my asp.net apps, I handle all exceptions manually and show the error message on the same page without forwarding. I wonder now if DNN or the forum module doesn't have enough exception handling. I know this is an ASP.NET feature for unhandled exceptions and not a DNN's issue in particular but it bugs me when it happens.

 

 

 

We were doing some work on dnnsoftware.com (profiling for performance) and that causes a few issues - when you have an issue in forums, it will load the page but put the exception details into the url as a parameter (as Sebastian says) - therefore reloading the page loads the parameter and redisplays the issue.

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