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asp.net-mvcunicodeencoding
Brian S
Brian S

Reputation: 5056

MVC Page full of Unicode/Trash

I'm working on a web app project with a team which is currently being migrated from ASP.NET to ASP.NET MVC Framework, and late last week, I was suddenly unable to properly load any of the MVC pages.

I can load any page still on the old framework just fine. When I try to load one of the updated pages, I get something along the lines of this:

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The trash content fills the page, and is different every time. The results are the same in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

The Live Headers extension for Chrome shows that I'm getting a 500 error when this happens. In Internet Explorer (and Visual Studio Page Inspector, which I suspect is using IE to render the page), the error actually shows up instead of filling the page with trash:

Compilation Error

Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

Compiler Error Message: CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Newtonsoft' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Source Error:

Line 27:    using System.Web.Routing;
Line 28:    using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
Line 29:    using Newtonsoft.Json;
Line 30:    using Newtonsoft.Json.Converters;
Line 31:

Source File: c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\7bd9a704\8efd3118\App_Web__layout.cshtml.639c3968.skqnufwa.0.cs    Line: 29

Nobody else on my team is experiencing this issue. I have attempted:

The project references Newtonsoft.Json.dll, which is located in $project_root/packages/Newtonsoft.Json.5.0.8/lib/net40, which I deleted and re-downloaded during my troubleshooting attempts.

I've pretty much been stuck working on SQL queries for the backend due to this problem (related question on dba.SE); I can certainly do the work and I have work to do, but I would like to be able to resolve this issue and be capable of contributing to any part of the project.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 401

Answers (1)

mikalai
mikalai

Reputation: 1736

(So I'm copying a comment as an answer:)

Check if Newtonsoft.Json.dll is really located in /bin folder of your web application root after compilation.

Upvotes: 1

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