Well it's happened again.
I spent two hours this morning refactoring a demo SL4 project to prepare for expansion. I split a few classes, tidied things up, etc. I hit F5 to run and it says I have a cross domain call failure. I spent the next two hours trying to fix this problem. I removed and added the service ref again about 40 times in different ways, I searched the web and all of the advice is worse than useless. I even had bizarre errors adding the ref back again like "Custom tool warning: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information" which I've never had before and advice in this matter is useless. The referenced service didn't even change, it's not in the solution. I didn't add any new service types. I have now spent 4 hours trying to get a previously working demo project going again without hope. I could restore everything and incrementally reapply my morning's changes, but that would take another 2 hours. I created a fresh SL4 project and web app out of the wizard, added the save service ref and it works. So something "has gone wrong" with my demo project and nothing seems to resurrect it. My only hope therefore is to slowly paste the contents of the old app into the fresh one and pray that it keeps working. I estimate that this will take 6 hours. I've been writing software for 35 years and I haven't seen such f***ing mind-blowing instability and idiocy and insanity before and it just seems to get worse and worse with every passing year and every new kit and tool and framework that comes out. Are we going through a historical period in IT history where everything is actually "dis-integrating"? Is it an internal joke by Microsoft to cull the weak and breed a new generation of drone developers who just accept that everything doesn't work? I spend more time searching the web for answers to insane problems that and I do actually coding, and most of the time I get no answers or increasing numbers of stupid answers cluttering the web. More and more often I get problems where quite simply "I have no frigging idea what to do". There are no meaningful clues and no obvious course of action. The only thing to do is delete stuff, jiggle options, add stuff back, restart IIS, reboot, restore backups, compare old and new files, etc. There is usually no diagnostic path to follow, you just bumble around until you get a different (less worse) error that might give you a clue. Is this the future of software development? Greg
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