Issue update:

I can't reproduce the bug on my development machine. The result is now I have a perfect working forum on my development machine and a broken one on the pre production server

The forum installed perfectly on a winXP box in VWD. when I enabled attachments, it made the right folder, and when user post a message with an attachment, the attachment gets uploaded to this folder.

So far so good.

When you view the post however, nothing indicates there is an attachment. I have no idea if this is a bug, or just the DNNsilver theme (I have never seen a DNN forum with working attachments so maybe I am just looking at it wrong, please enlighten me)

I'll try to minimize more differences between the two installs tomorow

ISSUE SOLVED

The issue was caused by the a missing a resource key "ExceedFileSize.Text" in SharedResources when there is a maximum file size set for attachments.

During my investigation to this issue, I was delayed by these other issues

• Files are considered to large even when they are clearly small enough to be allowed
• "Request is not available in this context" for non admin users (sindce I solved the attachment issue)
• Unable to use the forums in VWD without the gallery because of compilation issue

Cripsy

if you use the VWD starter kit for DNN4, run it once and install the forum package (the binairy one)

close your browser

hit run again in visual webdeveloper

it WILL NOT compile and run again, you will get that MSbuild error, please do not forget that aspx/ascx pages have to be compiled as well