LOL! Thanks for the authoritative word. I'm happy I decided to go ahead and release Sueetie 1.3 with YAF 1.9.4 RC2 with a few modifications for the fresh install fix.

I've got a lot of integration work to do with YAF's superior User Profiling and Communications features, so let us know when YAF is back to its rock solid state.

-Dave

WOOHOO! Thanks for jumping on this so quickly, Jaben. You just received another big "Thanks" for that!

So looking at the tracker details, if we update YAF.Classes.Core Localizer.cs from the repository we should be good to go? More specifically, I'll be able to release Gummy Bear 1.3 in the next couple of weeks with YAF 1.9.4 RC2 rather than wait for RC3?

Thanks again,
-Dave

UPDATE: I like the changes in Localizer.cs to prevent the install hang in the addition of InitCulture() plus some bonus Linq action. I'll update Localizer.cs and YAFLocalizer.cs and should be ready for MULTIPLE setups in preparation for Gummy 1.3. If there's any advice on getting other source updates into the Gummy 1.3/1.9.4RC2, I'd appreciate it.

UPDATE2: I needed the new string helper IsSet()/IsNotSet() functions from Utils/StringHelper.cs to compile updated Localizer.cs. I noticed that IsNullOrEmptyTrimmed() is now IsNotSet() but rather than update the entire solution I'm preserving IsNullOrEmptyTrimmed(), will use IsSet() w/ Localizer and call it good--unless anyone advises otherwise.

I'll be doing a ton of updates and fresh installs over the next few days. If I encounter any weirdness I'll post back.

As a sidebar, I plan on reducing YAF setup steps with this release. Will keep you posted on any interesting details.

-DB

Jaben,

I see what you're up to. You're luring me into the YAF project inner workings so I end up doing real work.

Okay, you win. Entered in tracker! My first issue, so let me know if I screwed it up. I'll report on any progress.

Thanks,
Dave

Kamyar,

The album feature is excellent! The Cover=0 issue is probably a local environment glitch of mine, unless it's occurring on all IIS6 machines. I'm perfectly happy with the fake cover until we figure it out. It still works great.

Ahh, military camp. I remember when my bud Keyvan Nayyeri did his required year of military. It wasn't his happiest year, but it turned out good in the end. Hang in there!

Thanks for the kind words on the Sueetie YAF upgrade. I need to announce it this weekend! I get to do it again with RC3! woo-hoo! The thing is that I've got a Sueetie release coming up, so will want everyone to enjoy the latest YAF features! The infinite install loop is kind of a deal breaker with RC2, too. ha.

Thanks for the reply.

-Dave

I wanted to announce my sweet new YAF 1.9.4 RC2 Forums, darn it, so while I was walking the dog at lunchtime I came up with a temporary fix. Attached is a screenshot of the working album display. If you look closely you'll see the "no cover" image has no album description info in the bottom frame. Close enough for now.

What I did was change the <img /> to an <ASP:Image /> control and bypassed Resources.ashx for Cover=0. That HTML is attached. I also added an OnItemDataBound() to the repeater.

Wa-la! Instant hack.

Hey, Guys,

My YAF1.9.4 RC2 site is up at http://sueetie.com/forum. (The group board is up at http://sueetie.com/groups/demo/forum.)

Everything is great with the exception of a weird issue with albums. I want to announce and show off the new album feature, but I don't want for people to see albums without the default cover.

Attached is a screenshot. Covers work correctly after I manually assign one from an existing album image, but the default "0" cover (/forum/images/noCover.png, or example, http://sueetie.com/forum...shx?album=3&cover=0) is broken. Yes, the noCover.png is present, all of the Lightbox JS is being loaded.

The covers are displaying correctly on my office development server, Windows Server 2008/IIS7. My hosted production server is running Windows Server 2003/IIS6. Don't know if that's a factor or not.

If I find anything I'll post back.

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

-Dave

LOVE the Shoutbox. Chat is huge!

I noticed today that the shoutbox conversation is shared between boards. It would be nice if that could be board-specific at some point.

Thanks,
Dave

Good news to report and an embarrassing confession. First the confession, I was missing a critical piece of YAF logic in that each board creates its own user. So while my report was correct (user daveburke in Board 1 had a rankID of 10, which was associated with Board 2--causing the runtime on yaf_user_getalbumsdata null data), I found no bad RankID assignments from any Board 2 processes.

SO FORGET THE BAD RANKID ISSUE, in other words. How certain of my key user RankIDs got screwed up, I don't know, but I'm not worrying about it. Mek, we don't have to budget for Excedrins anymore.

My apologies for the noise. I do have some thoughts on the yaf_user_getalbumsdata logic which I'll post on a separate thread.

Thanks,
Dave

Exactly. VS2008 SP1. I was personally worried I didn't have SP1 installed, but fortunately I did.

Not changing to VS2010 (as I'm using VS2008 with the source and .NET 3.5), the YetAnotherForum Website Project is now a Visual Studio Web Application.

A-okay?

-Dave