“Could not load file or assembly NVelocity.dll or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.”

So I loaded up Dependency Walker to see what was going on and I noticed the following:

Error: Modules with different CPU types were found.

OK, so I am running a x64 system, that can be expected.  It also noted that IEShims.dll was missing, though that seemed to be a bit of a redherring.  After a while of wading through Dependecy Walker screens and wondering if I had just wasted the past half day of work it dawned on me that I hadn’t even checked NuGet.  And lucky enough NVelocity is available as a package there.

So I ran the NuGet package, it installed fine, and it deployed without any issues on the first try!

So the moral of the story is check NuGet first, there are tons of packages available and you might even find something new and interesting.

This is not available in the UK yet, though it should be coming soon. However you can enable it if you feel comfortable with the fact that you can’t go back to the old version. Instructions for doing so can be found here:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/how-to-enable-facebook-timeline/

I have had this up and running for a couple of weeks now and I really like it. Though I can’t seem to find the ‘View Profile As ’ feature which was made more prominent in Facebook’s recent profile update. I think that might not yet be in there as it is still pre-release however that might just be me giving in to my laziness.

I am really looking forward to this layout coming to brand pages, that will open things up quite a bit as you can see here:

http://mashable.com/2011/09/29/facebook-timeline-brands/

‘btnTest does not exist in the current context’

Now I hadn’t worked nor thought about this particular project for over a week so I wasn’t really sure what was going on.  It was a run-time error, everything compiled fine.  I ended up spending a couple of (expletive filled!) hours going down dead ends and getting nowhere.  Something just didn’t feel right about this but I couldn’t see what it was until I noticed a ContactForm_copy.ascx file in the UserControls folder in Visual Studio.  How did that get there?!  It seems I had made a filesystem copy of the UserControl and somehow managed to include it in my project.  After deleting the copy of the file everything worked as normal, problem solved.

So the moral of the story is: Don’t leave backup copies of your project files in the same folder as the original.  It seems like a reasonable thing to do to keep a backup copy around while experimenting, and everything compiles fine since we are dealing with partial classes in code-behind.  But save yourself some trouble and move your backups to a designated folder and avoid the dreaded  ‘Object Does Not Exist’ error that we all know and (don’t)  love.

Well… I have discovered the amazing blogging and development platform called WordPress and have jumped in headfirst at the deep end! The past six months have seen me transition the majority of my website development work from ASP.NET to the WordPress platform and I am loving every minute of it.

So a lot of what I write about here will be related to WordPress, it’s my new toy and you know how we get, we can’t stop talking about our new toys.  I have been doing a lot of Facebook development lately so there will be lots on that, as well as general web development and marketing discussion relating to Facebook and other social media outlets.  

I also have some really exciting and cutting edge side projects that I am involved in, more to come on those as they get closer to their launch dates.  

I might even be able to convince some of the other talented designers and developers that I work with on Clever projects to guest post.  Watch this space!