Publish and test a WebMatrix web site using a Local Windows Server 2008

I am new to ASP.NET as well as to WebMatrix Beta Razor language.

I am trying to publish and test a Web Site from WebMatrix Beta IDE to a local Virtual Windows Server 2008 IIS Server.

I did install SQL Server Express 2008 R2 at my local Virtual Windows Server 2008 (using Web Matrix Microsoft Web Platform).

Everything works fine till I add a database table to my WebMatrix site.

When I add a database table and Publish to local Virtual Windows Server 2008 IIS Server my WebMatrix IDE

closes unexpectedlly without any error message.

Running my Web Site using WebMatrix IISExpress works fine.

Any help will be very appreciated...

Re: Publish and test a WebMatrix web site using a Local Windows Server 2008

Sorry to hear that you're seeing a crash. Can you give more information about what settings you entered into the Publish Settings dialog?

Re: Publish and test a WebMatrix web site using a Local Windows Server 2008

How do I Publish?

Protocol: WebDeploy
Server: MyServer
Password: ******
Site Name: Default Web Site
Destination URL: http://MyServer

Notice:

Everything works fine till I add a database table to my WebMatrix site.

Crash occures as soon as I add a database table to my Web Site.

Thanks in advance...

Re: Publish and test a WebMatrix web site using a Local Windows Server 2008

You can find a log file under your temp folder %temp%\some-number\WebMatrix.exe.log

You can either post it here, or send it directly to my email yigalatz@microsoft.com.

I'm assuming the crash happens when you click publish, and not when you click add table. Is that correct?

Re: Publish and test a WebMatrix web site using a Local Windows Server 2008

That's correct, Webmatrix crashes when I click Publish.

Validate Connection results in Connected successfully.

No ../WebMatrix.exe.log file found...

Re: Publish and test a WebMatrix web site using a Local Windows Server 2008

I looked around, and we don't know about any crash similar to the one you are describing. I will be really helpful to track down it down. Thanks for reporting it.

A few more questions:

1. What type of database are you using?

2. Does any dialog come up after you click publish or does the app crash right away.

3. Can you check the event logger and see if anything shows up there?

4. Can you share your server credentials, assuming it's accessible externally (to my Microsoft email above), along with your project so I can try and reproduce this crash?

Re: Publish and test a WebMatrix web site using a Local Windows Server 2008

Hi Yishai,

1. I am using a simple Webmatrix database table similar to the one presented in the Bakery sample.

2. The app crashes right away when I click Publish.

3. The Event Logger shows up the following error:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-IIS-IISManager
Date:          04/10/2010 23:49:44
Event ID:      13
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      AVIP4A-W7-64
Description:
IISMANAGER_CRASH

IIS Manager terminated unexpectedly.

Exception:Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentException: An item with name 'Auto generated parameter 1000' has already been defined.
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.Store.UniqueValueFileStoreCollection`1.Add(T item)

Re: Publish and test a WebMatrix web site using a Local Windows Server 2008

Hey again,

Thanks for getting back with us. Typically the event logger will show more the exception stack trace. Can you please send us the whole message all the way down.

It should look something like:

<div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste">IISMANAGER_CRASH</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste">IIS Manager terminated unexpectedly.</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste">Exception:System.IO.IOException: The handle is invalid.</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError()</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.Threading.EventWaitHandle.Set()</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.AsyncResult.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg, IMessageSink replySink)</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.AgileAsyncWorkerItem.DoAsyncCall()</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.AgileAsyncWorkerItem.ThreadPoolCallBack(Object o)</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.WaitCallback_Context(Object state)</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean ignoreSyncCtx)</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem()</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback()</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste">Process:WebMatrix</div>

IISMANAGER_CRASH

IIS Manager terminated unexpectedly.

Exception:Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentException: An item with name 'Auto generated parameter 1000' has already been defined.
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.Store.UniqueValueFileStoreCollection`1.Add(T item)

...

more exception stack trace

...

Process:WebMatrix

Thanks again,

Yishai

Re: Publish and test a WebMatrix web site using a Local Windows Server 2008

Hello again,

Actually that one line of trace helped us track this issue down. We fixed it, and we expect to release a new Beta in the next few days. At that point this issue should be gone.

Please let us know if by using the new Beta version this issue was resolved.

Again thanks a lot for your feedback

Yishai