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  christophers...

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  Deployment Failure - System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path.

  May 20, 2011 05:27 PM|LINK

  I have created an asp.net MVC3 website I would like to upload via Webmatrix. The website uses a database I set up in webmatrix (SQL Compact Databases). I am using an ado.net data entity model to interface with the database. The website runs properly on my local machine, but when I attempt to deploy it via webmatrix I recieve the following error:

  System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path.
     at System.IO.Path.CheckInvalidPathChars(String path)
     at System.IO.Path.IsPathRooted(String path)
     at Microsoft.WebMatrix.Deployment.DeployFilesFilter.ApplyFilterForSqlCeInternal()
     at Microsoft.WebMatrix.Deployment.DeployFilesFilter.ApplyFilterForSqlCe()
     at Microsoft.WebMatrix.Deployment.DeployFilesFilter.ApplyFilters()
     at Microsoft.WebMatrix.Deployment.MsDeployWorker.Execute(Boolean pullback)

   After a little experimentation I have determined that ths problem appears to be linked to my web.config connection string for the databases (With this string removed the deploy error no longer occurs).

  <add name="MyDatabaseEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/Models.MyDatabaseModel.csdl|res://*/Models.MyDatabaseModel.ssdl|res://*/Models.MyDatabaseModel.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlServerCe.4.0;provider connection string= &quot; Data Source=|DataDirectory|\MyDatabase.sdf &quot;" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />

   

  Does anybody know why I am getting this error - what am I missing here?

  Thanks!

   

   

   

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  Shellymn

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  Re: Deployment Failure - System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path.

  May 20, 2011 08:11 PM|LINK

  Try this

  metadata=res://{assembly}/{namespace}.{filename}.csdl|res://{assembly}/{namespace}.{filename}.ssdl|res://{assembly}/{namespace}.{filename}.msl;

  • Edited by shellymn on May 20, 2011 08:11 PM
  • Marked as answer by XiaoCheng Fan - MSFT on May 27, 2011 01:23 AM
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  magicalclick

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  Re: Deployment Failure - System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path.

  Feb 23, 2012 07:32 AM|LINK

  Hello I am facing the same problem.

  I don't think it is the metadata problem.

  if I change this

  <add name="MyDataModel1Container" connectionString="metadata=res://*/Models.MyDataModel1.csdl|res://*/Models.MyDataModel1.ssdl|res://*/Models.MyDataModel1.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlServerCe.4.0;provider connection string='Data Source=|DataDirectory|\DatabaseCE1.sdf'" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />

  to this 

  <add name="MyDataModel1Container" connectionString="metadata=res://*/Models.MyDataModel1.csdl|res://*/Models.MyDataModel1.ssdl|res://*/Models.MyDataModel1.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlServerCe.4.0;provider connection string='Data Source=DatabaseCE1.sdf'" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />

  Then, I can publish, but, my app would not be able to find DatabaseCE1.sdf anymore because I removed |DataDirectory|.

   

  I publish this app as sub-app. Meaning, it is under my www.mysite.com/mvc-test/ , not directly under www.mysite.com , which maybe the cause of the problem.

   

  Please help, thank you.

  • Edited by magicalclick on Feb 23, 2012 07:35 AM