VS2005 Website works locally but not when deployed

[dogged]

Website works locally but not when deployed
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Can someone please help with what I hope is a common problem (I’m new to .net).

I have a simple website generated by Visual studio 2005 .NET

It has a custom handler because I need to poll my website and update the browser page every few seconds.

I have developed the project locally and everything is working FINE!

However … when I publish to my Website instead of getting my fresh data into the browser (IE) I get the handler HTML data ie the .aspx page HTML!

Do I need to do something with IIS? ( a grey area for me). If so I would be concerned if all users would need to make changes…

After 3 days hair pulling any ideas would be extremely welcome…



Visual studio 2005 Project
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MyProject

Folder App_Code
CaptionHandler. cs
CaptionHandler. aspx.cs
Folder App_Data
CaptionHandler. aspx
CaptionHandler. aspx.cs
Default.aspx
Default.aspx.cs
Web.Config



XMLHTTP requesting
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var http = getHTTPObject() ;

var URL = "CaptionHandler .aspx?rat=bad&d og=good”;

http.open("GET" , URL, true);

wait (http.readyStat e == 4) etc

var string = http.responseTe xt;

send(null);

CaptionHandler. aspx is shell page
CaptionHandler. cs is :
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using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configur ation;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Secu rity;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.W ebControls;
using System.Web.UI.W ebControls.WebP arts;
using System.Web.UI.H tmlControls;
using System.Runtime. InteropServices ;
using System.Text;

/// <summary>
/// Summary description for CaptionHandler
/// </summary>
///
namespace MyHandler
{
public class CaptionHandler : IHttpHandler
{
public CaptionHandler( ){}

#region IHttpHandler Members

public void ProcessRequest( HttpContext context)
{
context.Respons e.ContentType = "text/plain";

string sVerb = context.Request .QueryString["…"];
string sCaption = context.Request .QueryString["…"];

context.Respons e.Write(sVerb);
context.Respons e.Write(sCaptio n);
}
}
public bool IsReusable
{
get { return true; }
}
#endregion
}
}


web.config
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<httpHandlers >
<add verb="*" path="CaptionHa ndler.aspx" type="MyHandler .CaptionHandler " />
</httpHandlers>

Fingers crossed ....

[dogged]

I think I may be finally discovering the problem here.

My Web hosting company (which advertised ASP support) now reckons I need to add NET framework support to my account and that my website has to run in the root directory. A pain since I already have a website running there.

Does anyone know what other features I need to get to run my simple website! I guess I need ASPNET 2.0 support but do I need to insist on AJAX extensions?

Anyone recommend a good hosting site that has all the necessary features?

Many thanks

[dogged]

This was the problem - silly me I thought .NET framework came with everything nowadays.