In a strange twist of fate after I posted my annouying once a week post () I decided to upgrade SimpleGallery to the latest.

Well, I'm now getting the following error on DNN 4.5.5 / SimpleGallery 2.3.1

Error: SimpleGallery is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: The base class includes the field 'ucTopMenu', but its type (Ventrian.SimpleGallery.Controls.TopMenu) is not compatible with the type of control (ASP.desktopmodules_simplegallery_controls_topmenu_ascx). ---> System.Web.HttpParseException: The base class includes the field 'ucTopMenu', but its type (Ventrian.SimpleGallery.Controls.TopMenu) is not compatible with the type of control (ASP.desktopmodules_simplegallery_controls_topmenu_ascx). ---> System.Web.HttpParseException: The base class includes the field 'ucTopMenu', but its type (Ventrian.SimpleGallery.Controls.TopMenu) is not compatible with the type of control (ASP.desktopmodules_simplegallery_controls_topmenu_ascx). at System.Web.Compilation.BaseTemplateCodeDomTreeGenerator.BuildFieldDeclaration(ControlBuilder builder) at System.Web.Compilation.BaseTemplateCodeDomTreeGenerator.BuildSourceDataTreeFromBuilder(ControlBuilder builder, Boolean fInTemplate, Boolean topLevelControlInTemplate, PropertyEntry pse) at System.Web.Compilation.BaseTemplateCodeDomTreeGenerator.BuildSourceDataTreeFromBuilder(ControlBuilder builder, Boolean fInTemplate, Boolean topLevelControlInTemplate, PropertyEntry pse) at System.Web.Compilation.TemplateControlCodeDomTreeGenerator.BuildMiscClassMembers() at System.Web.Compilation.BaseCodeDomTreeGenerator.BuildSourceDataTree() at System.Web.Compilation.BaseTemplateBuildProvider.GenerateCode(AssemblyBuilder assemblyBuilder) at System.Web.Compilation.AssemblyBuilder.AddBuildProvider(BuildProvider buildProvider) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Web.Compilation.AssemblyBuilder.AddBuildProvider(BuildProvider buildProvider) at System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvidersCompiler.ProcessBuildProviders() at System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvidersCompiler.PerformBuild() at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CompileWebFile(VirtualPath virtualPath) at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResultInternal(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile) at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResultWithNoAssert(HttpContext context, VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile) at System.Web.UI.TemplateControl.LoadControl(VirtualPath virtualPath) at System.Web.UI.TemplateControl.LoadControl(String virtualPath) at Ventrian.SimpleGallery.Gallery.LoadControlType() at Ventrian.SimpleGallery.Gallery.Page_Initialize(Object sender, EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

And these are starting to appear in the log:

AssemblyVersion: -1
PortalID: -1
PortalName:
UserID: -1
UserName:
ActiveTabID: -1
ActiveTabName:
RawURL:
AbsoluteURL:
AbsoluteURLReferrer:
UserAgent:
DefaultDataProvider:
ExceptionGUID:
InnerException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: type
FileName:
FileLineNumber: -1
FileColumnNumber: -1
Method:
StackTrace:
Message: System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: type at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic) at DotNetNuke.Framework.Reflection.CreateObject(String TypeName, String CacheKey) at DotNetNuke.Services.Search.ModuleIndexer.GetModuleList(Int32 PortalID)
Source:
Server Name: WEB02

Thanks, info has been sent.

Issue has been resolved.

I removed the old DnnForge.SimpleGallery.dll files from the /bin directory.

All seems good now. I guess I will leave Scott alone for awhile concerning Manual Photo Sorting

There is a new issue now.

I have seemingly random photos that will not display in the Standard slide show. The Album and Photo thumbnails of those images display and even the Original will display. The path appears correct when you view the source URL for the missing image.

However, the acutal URL for the images that are not displaying and the ones that do (it seems all new uploaded images have this issue) is formatted different.

Working Images:

http://flight2mars.com/Portals/0/Gallery/Album/8/f2m%20events_444093540106_0_ALB.jpg

Not Working:

http://flight2mars.com/DesktopModules/SimpleGallery/ImageHandlerLarge.ashx?width=241&height=480&HomeDirectory=%2fPortals%2f0%2fGallery%2fAlbum%2f8&fileName=PROM.jpg&portalid=0

No closer to figuring this out. It looks like the Standard slide show is ignoring Friendly URLs and trying to display using a query string instead of the format /tabid/somenumber/view...blah, blah...

Any suggestions other than, completely removing SimpleGallery, re-installing, re-creating all the albums.

Even then I don't know if that will work since any new image I upload has the problem and I've deleted the SimpleGallery directory and removed all SimpleGallery DLLs from the bin directory, then re-uploaded the module...still no go. I would really hate to remove the database tables and stored procedures.

Updated to the latest release. Still getting the same issue but only with images that had already had the issue.

Any new images do not have that issue now.