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Web Deployment Project and Profiles and custom ProfileBase derived type in the GAC

May 12, 2009 07:57 AM|LINK

Hello all,

In the GAC I have an assembly with my custom Profile provider and my custom type derived from ProfileBase.

When I deploy my application with a Web Deployment Project I get the following error:

[ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: type]
   System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic) +7467190
   System.Web.Profile.ProfileBase.CreateMyInstance(String username, Boolean isAuthenticated) +79
   System.Web.Profile.ProfileBase.Create(String username, Boolean isAuthenticated) +231
   Mcw.Cms.Modules.Members.Objects.Member.Load(String strUserName) +35
   Mcw.Cms.Modules.Members.Providers.CustomSqlMembershipProvider.GetAllUsers(Int32 pageIndex, Int32 pageSize, Int32& totalRecords) +330
   _members.DataBindTreeViewMembers() +85
   _members.Page_Load(Object s, EventArgs e) +26
   System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) +14
   System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) +35
   System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +99
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +50
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +627


When I copy my application to the test webserver the error is gone. I would really like to use the Web Deployment Project. I've found the following article; http://jlchereau.blogspot.com/2008/12/argumentnullexception-raised-by-profile.html but the given suggestion in the article doesn't solve the error. Does anyone know a solution for this?

Martijn

Edited by martijnvm on May 13, 2009 07:03 AM

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Re: Web Deployment Project and Profiles and custom ProfileBase derived type in the GAC

May 12, 2009 08:35 PM|LINK

Hi Martijn,

Have you tried to debug the dll to see where it is null?

Mikael Söderström
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Re: Web Deployment Project and Profiles and custom ProfileBase derived type in the GAC

May 14, 2009 07:44 AM|LINK

Hi,

When you deployed your ASP.NET website, did you install the assembly that is in GAC in server's GAC or copy this assembly to your ASP.NET website's Bin folder? When we precompile ASP.NET website, the referred assembly, which is in GAC, won't be copied to Bin folder.

So please insert that assembly in server's GAC or copy it to your ASP.NET website's Bin folder.

Since you are using Web Deployment project, you can try to enable or disable "allow this precompiled site to be updatable".

I look forward to receiving your test results.

Thomas Sun
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Edited by Thomas Sun – MSFT on May 18, 2009 09:43 AM
Edited by MetalAsp.Net on Feb 23, 2013 08:45 AM

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martijnvm

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Re: Web Deployment Project and Profiles and custom ProfileBase derived type in the GAC

May 20, 2009 01:53 PM|LINK

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for your reply.

I did add the assemly to the servers GAC. I also tried enabling and disabling the "Allow this precompiled site to be updatable" setting, it makes no difference.

I've also tested the application on my local machine, which also has the assembly installed in the GAC. The non compiled website works fine, the precompiled throws the error.

Is there a way that I can debug the precompiled website and the assembly in the GAC? Or does someone have any other suggestions?

Martijn

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Re: Web Deployment Project and Profiles and custom ProfileBase derived type in the GAC

May 21, 2009 03:28 AM|LINK

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

Did you get any error message in Windows Event Viewer which records the error of the application in the Application section?

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Re: Web Deployment Project and Profiles and custom ProfileBase derived type in the GAC

May 26, 2009 01:54 PM|LINK

Hi Thomas,

The following warning is in the Application section of the Event Viewer:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Event Category: Web Event
Event ID: 1310
Date:  5/26/2009
Time:  3:51:08 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: MCW3-DEV
Description:
Event code: 3006
Event message: A parser error has occurred.
Event time: 5/26/2009 3:51:08 PM
Event time (UTC): 5/26/2009 1:51:08 PM
Event ID: 5af29792b9854174b15eb19c4c238f8c
Event sequence: 6
Event occurrence: 1
Event detail code: 0

Application information:
    Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/1942446184/ROOT/cms-1-128878194658593750
    Trust level: Full
    Application Virtual Path: /cms
    Application Path: D:\www\- Cms\
    Machine name: MCW3-DEV

Process information:
    Process ID: 684
    Process name: w3wp.exe
    Account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE

Exception information:
    Exception type: HttpParseException
    Exception message: c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\cms\e4611f61\71ec0278\App_Web__basicmaster.master.cdcab7d2.vzqsp6ma.0.cs(125): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ProfileCommon' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Request information:
    Request URL: http://grondtransacties.nl/cms/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=A parser error has occurred.fcmsA parser error has occurred.fsiteexplorer.aspx
    Request path: /cms/login.aspx
    User host address: 192.168.0.40
    User:
    Is authenticated: False
    Authentication Type:
    Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE

Thread information:
    Thread ID: 1
    Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
    Is impersonating: False
    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)
   at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseReader(StreamReader reader, VirtualPath virtualPath)
   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.UI.TemplateParser.Parse(ICollection referencedAssemblies, VirtualPath virtualPath)
   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.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVirtualPathObjectFactory(VirtualPath virtualPath, HttpContext context, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean noAssert)
   at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CreateInstanceFromVirtualPath(VirtualPath virtualPath, Type requiredBaseType, HttpContext context, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean noAssert)
   at System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory.GetHandlerHelper(HttpContext context, String requestType, VirtualPath virtualPath, String physicalPath)
   at System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory.System.Web.IHttpHandlerFactory2.GetHandler(HttpContext context, String requestType, VirtualPath virtualPath, String physicalPath)
   at System.Web.HttpApplication.MapHttpHandler(HttpContext context, String requestType, VirtualPath path, String pathTranslated, Boolean useAppConfig)
   at System.Web.HttpApplication.MapHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()
   at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)

Custom event details:

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Does this help?

Martijn

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Re: Web Deployment Project and Profiles and custom ProfileBase derived type in the GAC

Jun 02, 2009 02:37 PM|LINK

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?

Martijn

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Re: Web Deployment Project and Profiles and custom ProfileBase derived type in the GAC

Feb 25, 2010 02:25 PM|LINK

Did you get this fixed?

We are also having this problem. We have a custom profile and a precompiled site.

Using reflector I dug into the framework to see what was going on. The null parameter for type error you are getting is caused by a call in System.Web.Profile.ProfileBase.CreateMyInstance. It calls BuildManager.GetProfileType(). That call is returning null. It is returning a member variable _profileType. This value gets set by a call to EnsureTopLevelFilesCompiled. I would expect that this function's behavior is different in a precompiled site which causes the _profileType to never get set.

I am still trying to fix it, but thought I would post here as well for any help anyone can offer.

Thanks.

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Re: Web Deployment Project and Profiles and custom ProfileBase derived type in the GAC

Apr 09, 2010 09:53 AM|LINK

We decided not to use the Web Deployment Project.

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Re: Web Deployment Project and Profiles and custom ProfileBase derived type in the GAC

Feb 22, 2013 10:17 AM|LINK

Hava a look at: http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/86616/Fixing-ArgumentNullException-When-Using-the-ASP-Ne

This might help resolve your issues in the future.

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