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RE: IE 7 Beta 1 causes server error

Ryan Healey — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:02:45 GMT

Hi Digi,

This was resolved last week alongside our licensing issue. If you download the latest InstantASP.Common.DLL from within your My.InstantASP area this will resolve the IE7 problem. Please read the linked topic to learn why we did not update the version numbers to indicate a few fixes.

FYI: We have tested on IE7 Beta 1 and have no problems to report.

Hope this helps,

RE: IE 7 Beta 1 causes server error

AL (aholics.com) — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:57:16 GMT

Don't get me wrong, now that you know for sure what the issue is...sure, sounds to me like the system could be a little more flexible to allow for string-based versions.

I was just making a generalized comment about supporting beta tools, because I've tried to do it and it's a nightmare for developers. Those that were trying to build websites to work with FireFox during it's many iterations during development can probably attest to that. ;)

RE: IE 7 Beta 1 causes server error

DigiChaos — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:38:44 GMT

You have to plan for the future...

Basically the problem is that they are pulling the browser version, and then converting it to a double. So basically what they are saying is that you can NEVER have a browser that has a letter in the version.

What if opera decides that they are going to come out with a new version called 9extreme!

I would be find if it just threw an error and said "we dont support your browser version", but instead it throws a server error and the user cannot post at all.

RE: IE 7 Beta 1 causes server error

AL (aholics.com) — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:31:39 GMT

Just my opinion, but most companies won't support Beta releases of software. Mainly because they could spend time and money to support it, and then have everything change on them...effectively wasting their time and money.

I can't speak for the folks here at IASP, but, I personally wouldn't get your hopes up on something like this until it's released for good.

RE: IE 7 Beta 1 causes server error

DigiChaos — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:20:50 GMT

Has this been resolved in the final version?

I consider this to be pretty serious since most of my users are technical and will probably use IE 7.0 beta. People who use IE 7.0 beta cannot post at all.

RE: IE 7 Beta 1 causes server error

DigiChaos — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:42:31 GMT

Here is some more info I saw in the error that would probably help:

Cast from string "7.0b" to type 'Double' is not valid.

This is probably the browser version thats trying to be parsed.

IE 7 Beta 1 causes server error

DigiChaos — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:34:38 GMT

Using IE 7 Beta 1 you get a server error whenever you try to make a post.

Exception Type: System.FormatException
Exception Message: Input string was not in a correct format.
Exception Source: Microsoft.VisualBasic
Exception Target Site: Parse

---- Stack Trace ----
Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DoubleType.Parse(Value As String, NumberFormat As NumberFormatInfo)
(unknown file): N 00193
Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DoubleType.FromString(Value As String, NumberFormat As NumberFormatInfo)
(unknown file): N 00082